{"id":6,"date":"2014-11-09T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T06:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:27:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2227 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_00392-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Jones wearing glasses, a shirt and tie, attempting not to look self conscious.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_00392-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_00392-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_00392-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_00392-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_00392.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This blog is written by Marc Jones, who started this blog because most freelance teachers don&#8217;t get training and can fall into a rut and stop improving or start feeling that they have lost a bit of the vibrancy and vitality they used to feel about teaching. I have not been a full-time freelancer since 2018 but still dabble from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>I hold MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL and MRes Humanities &amp; Social Sciences from Portsmouth University, UK by distance learning and Trinity DipTESOL. I currently teach at two universities. I have worked in almost every context in Japan that you can imagine, and also an orthodontic clinic.<\/p>\n<p>I am always interested in new opportunities and projects, especially those related to listening, pronunciation and Task-Based Language Teaching. 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