Rodney Mantle: Committee Member
worked for 17 years at the BBC, as a producer in domestic radio, as a sub-editor in the World Service Newsroom and in the International Relations Department, where he ran a confidential briefing service for programme makers working abroad, especially in the communist countries.
He taught English at a school in Germany and the University of Munich, as well as German at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and taught French, German and Spanish at schools and colleges in England, with responsibility for IT. At the Institute of Linguists and the Association for Language Learning he organised many events. He has published BBC and Longman course books, as well as articles on all kinds of language topics, including TEFL.
Since retirement from UK school teaching in summer 2003 he has been teaching English and French at Liaoning Normal University as part of the British Council China Teaching Programme. He attended the IATEFL Conferences in 2005, 2004, 2003, 1994 and 1973. Along the way he acquired the CELTA very recently, preceded rather earlier by a Glasgow MLitt and an Oxford MA.
