Alan Maley
Alan Maley’s career in English Language Teaching began with The British Council in 1962. He worked for the British Council in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, PR China and India over a period of 26 years. After resigning from the Council in 1988, he became Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge (1988-93). He then took up the post of Senior Fellow in the Department of English, National University of Singapore, where he stayed for 5 years His last full-time post was as Dean and Professor of the Institute for English Language Education, Assumption University, Bangkok, where he set up new MA programmes. Since retiring from Assumption in 2004, he has occupied a number of visiting professorial posts at Leeds Metropolitan, Nottingham, Durham, Malaysia (UKM), Vietnam (OU-HCMC) and Germany (Universitat Augsburg).
He has published extensively and was series editor for the Oxford Resource Books for Teachers for over 20 years. He continues to write for publication. His most recent ELT publications include:
- Creativity in the English Language Classroom. (co-editor with Nik Peachey) 2015 British Council.
- Global Issues in the Creative English Classroom. (co-editor with Nik Peachey) 2017 British Council
- Creativity in Language Teaching: from Inspiration to Implementation. With Tamas Kiss. 2017 . Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Alan Maley’s 50 Creative Activities. 2018, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
He has recently published collections of his haiku:
- What the Eye Sees. 1018. Fordwich: PWP.
- How the Heart Responds. 2018. Fordwich: PWP.
He remains active as a speaker at national and international conferences.
He was a co-founder of The Extensive Reading Foundation, and of The C group: Creativity for Change in Language Education. He is a past-President of IATEFL, and was given the ELTons Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012
