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HuaweiKhaleej Times brings you an interview with Dr. Christine Coombe, Assessment Leader for the Higher Colleges of Technology and English Faculty at the Dubai Men’s College, who has become the first teacher from the Middle East to be elected President of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), the largest organisation of English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in the world.
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