{"id":23,"date":"2022-02-22T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:06:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"56\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/about\/0_n6zzxzdrgfpv6tue\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue-1024x576.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/languagematters\/uploads\/sites\/3022\/2022\/02\/25170509\/0_n6zzxzDrGFPV6Tue.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I began working as an English Teacher back when Blur versus Oasis was still a thing.\u00a0 This included a few early stints employed as a TESOL Teacher\/Tutor, most notably in Lille, France, which I somehow managed to give up to return to work in Scotland&#8230; three weeks before the Scottish National Football Team took part in France &#8217;98, the last World Cup finals we&#8217;ve managed to reach!\u00a0 From 2010 to 2022, I provided ESOL and EAL support as a Support for Learning Teacher.\u00a0 After 23 years employed in various roles within the same school, I am now a member of an Local Authority Specialist Support Service EAL Team.\u00a0 I am still hopeful that Scotland will reach another World Cup before I retire.<\/p>\n<p>The blog will focus on Language, Linguistics and providing English as an Additional Language (EAL) support.\u00a0 It may stray into discussion of Systemic Functional Linguistics, my original passion as a student, though is just as likely to explore the mother tongue of Chewbacca the wookie, or sing the praises of the lyrical genius that is &#8216;Baby Shark&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began working as an English Teacher back when Blur versus Oasis was still a thing.\u00a0 This included a few early stints employed as a TESOL Teacher\/Tutor, most notably in Lille, France, which I somehow managed to give up to return to work in Scotland&#8230; three weeks before the Scottish National Football Team took part&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11512,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/languagematters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}