User:Noble Augustine

Noble Augustine, the founder of International Association of English Language Teachers (IAELT) and the website www.englishteachersite.com, a website that offers free resources for teachers and learners of English language, is a teacher of English currently based in Calgary, Canada.He worked as lecturer in English in two Libyan Universities: Omar al Mokhtar University, Al Beida, and Garyounis University, Ajdabia. Apart from teaching he also served as the Coordinator of Quality assurance and Course Evaluations, and Research Guide for Undergraduate Students.Noble Augustine works with  The Calgary Immigrant Educational Society (CIES) and and Calgary Catholic Immigration Society(CCIS). He started his career as a teacher in English in 2001 after completing his M A in English from St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry .He was the university first rank holder for M Phil examination at School of Letters of Mahathma Gandhi University in the academic year 2002-2003. His subjects of interest are Theory and Practice of Translation, Modern and Postmodern poetry, Postcolonial Writing, Literary theory, and Communicative English. Some of the academic papers presented by him at various national and international seminars include: Moby Dick: A study in Megalomania, The Comic Paradise: A Rereading of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, Politics and Geography in the Poetry of Kamala Das, The politics of Deconstruction, Rasa and Dhwani: the Essence of Eastern Aesthetics, The Trend of Multi-generic Parody in Malayalam Fiction:A Reading of Contemporary Short Stories in Malayalam. etc. He has translated into English Aalakampadi (The Escort) a novel by B Murali, a well-known Malayalam writer. He worked as lecturer in English in two Libyan Universities: Omar al Mokhtar University, and  University of Bengazi, where he also chaired the committee for Quality Assurance, Assessment and Accreditation. He guided and supervised the dissertation of Undergraduate Students and chaired the Viva Voce. He has also trained and assessed teacher education students in their practical teaching. In 2011 he obtained his certificate as a Teacher of English as a Second Langauge from Oxford Seminars. Currently he lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his wife and three children, and is engaged in academic research, teaching in schools, and publishing in the virtual and print media.