Our Team

Sophie has 13 years’ experience in EFL teaching in Spain, the UK and France. She is originally from the West Indies and has lived in Barbados, the UK, France and, until recently, Barcelona. She holds a BA in Linguistics, an MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT from the University of East Anglia, as well as the RSA DELTA (Diploma of English Language Teaching to Adults) which she attained at International House in Barcelona.

She has taught General, Business and Academic English to a wide variety of students, including international students, at the University of Edinburgh and at the British Council in Spain. She has a wide experience of teaching English to all levels of English to adults and young learners. (She was a Senior Teacher for young learners at the Salisbury School of English.)

She has been a tutor on the LTCL Certificate and has also done some tutoring on the LTCL Diploma course in Barcelona. She was a teacher and in-house trainer for the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 2003 to 2010, where she developed many workshops, some of which she presented at the 2009 IATEFL conference and 2010 TESOL Spain conference. She is co-author of the English Teaching Professional article: Adapting your Classroom Practice for Senior Learners. She also holds the Certificate in pedagogical uses of ICT.

Agnès holds a Master’s degree and a DEA in English Literature and Linguistics from La Sorbonne in Paris.
She has also studied English at Stanford University (California) for a year and taught French at the Berlitz School of Palo Alto.
She has lived abroad for ten years and taught English in Nigeria, Singapore and Beijing to children from 5 to 16, in the French schools there. Agnès also graduated from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and has organised classical concerts in Paris for three years.
In addition to Agnès’ academic qualifications and experience. Agnès has also been the center manager of TEFL PARIS during 12 years.