TESOL
Helping Teachers Help Students
Master English to Join the Global Community
Leona Wellington has taught ESL/EFL worldwide, aiming to preserve the Lingua Franca for improved worldwide communication. She favors fun, personalized teaching methodologies that are student centered as opposed to explanations. This include right brain techniques for acquisition versus learning. Her program is based on core principles students need for a solid foundation in English such as:
BUILDING BLOCKS OF ENGLISH:
-Bedrock needed to ‘Think in English at all levels
-Essential controlling verbs families with their exclusive functions
-Mastery of statements, questions, answers, negatives and commands
-Layered acquisition from concrete to abstract at any level
-Accurate shifting of verb modes, quickly and automatically
SPEAKING PRESENTATIONS:
-Overview of Leona’s core roots ESL/EFL program
-Writing Activities that are fun and support core structure
-Drama for reading, writing, speaking and listening skills
-Using the right brain to acquire left brained language skills
-Custom Presentations to cover your specific needs
CONTACT:
SIGN UP AND COMMENTS FOR
ENDORSEMENTS:
Principals, Administrators, Teachers and Colleagues
I found Leona’s book to be full of new information and her method of explaining the structures, rules and roots of the English language are essential for every English learner. I hope people from all over the world will obtain her book because of its high quality.
Yusuf Alimukhammad – Colleague at the Writing Center UNizwa
Leona was destined to be a national leader in developing methods to teach English to speakers of other languages. She has firsthand knowledge because of her vision and ability to adapt and understand other languages and cultures. Leona’s passion for her poetry, art and writing is an inspiration to instructors and students in the TOSOL arena. In my lifetime, I have not been envious of too many people. However, she has led a very interesting life by traveling all over the world to give the best of her time, mind and muscle to students, and by writing this book as a legacy for generations to come.
Dr. Arnold Chavez, Ed.D. – Counselor and Human Rights Advocate, Bay Area, California
Leona actively utilizes left and right brain modalities to learn and teach. Having a strong background in teaching different subjects in various countries, she is also a professional actor and puppeteer. As charismatic as she is passionate and thorough, any student or fellow learner who has the good fortune to meet Leona will never forget the experience.
Milton B. Knutson – Retired Author and PhD, in French and Spanish Literature, University of Arizona
Leona Wellington can be considered one of the best ESL/EFL teachers we have ever had at University of Nizwa. She has made a clear difference through her competence in the field, professionalism, and impressive personality. She still stands out with her relentless effort to improve our teaching practices, and to be a role model for other teachers.
Ayatollah Labadi
Professor of Applied Linguistics, Advisor to the Chancellor for The Foundation Program and Open-Learning, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman
Leona’s enthusiasm, energy and good will demonstrates on the intellectual as well as the professional level how to deal with and surmount the challenges and unexpected situations that arise within the context of a public education system. Her humanity as well as her congeniality allows her to make the best of whatever social milieu she finds herself in. As a teacher, Leona needs no recommendation since anyone who meets her immediately recognizes both her personal and professional abilities.
Don Emilio Arias Martinez – High School Principal, Colegio Técnico de Orosi, Paraiso de Cartago, Costa Rica
Gifted, creative and insightful throughout her life, Leona Wellington continues to uplift and inspire students and teachers across the globe. This outstanding master teacher is at the top of her game.
Kathleen McGinty, M.A. Ed. – Taos, New Mexico
As an educational professional, Leona is an advocate of providing a holistic approach to learning English for second language learners through dynamic and engaging personalized learning activities conducive to overall language acquisition.
Derek O’Connell – Director of the Writing Center University of Nizwa, Oman
I first met Leona in her eighth grade class at the tiny, primitive colegio in La Virgen, Costa Rica. Knowing I was fearful of mispronouncing words, and being ridiculed because of my accent, Leona told me to ignore them and ‘just do it.’ Due to what I learned in her English, art and theater classes, I’ve had opportunities many Costa Ricans will never have.
Cindy Porras – Manager, Tamarindo Transfers and Tours, Grecia, Costa Rica
Having studied Leona’s book with its revolutionary approach, I am convinced that her base principles of English can easily be acquired while bypassing much of the tedious grammar presented in other methods. She makes her students’ lives so much easier, and learning so much fun! Thank you, Leona, for presenting this wonderful work to ESL/EFL teachers and students around the world.
Dr. Syed Rizwan – PhD/Communication Trainer, Lucknow, India
Leona is a very interactive teacher who motivates students to study and search on their own. She also gives them lots of activities to improve their language skills. In addition, she’s able to understand each student’s way of learning and aligns herself to their way in order to help them reach their learning goals.
Humaid Al Salmi – Member of the Lifelong Learning staff, University of Nizwa
The idea of her teaching model really speaks to the universal properties of all languages. I love the four verb families as they are accurate, very helpful for the learner, and sum up the English language helping verbs.
Jilani Warsi, PhD – Associate Professor Queens College, New York
Leona’s Students…
It was such an opportunity to be one of your students. You are one of the best teachers because you make English easier to understand. You also have a unique way of communicating to your students of different ages. I would like you to be my teacher again if possible!
Thabit Said Saayid Al Fazari – Accountant-Finance UNizwa/Member of Leona’s Communications Course for Lifelong Learning Institute
I learned from Leona’s unique style of teaching, her way of dealing with students, and her smile every time I met her challenges. She promotes all the activities that have the same relation, and prevents conversations from being scattered. She knows how to motivate success and avoid failure. Because I really loved her process of writing essays, I tried again and again to write better each time. She is really concerned about instilling the love of reading because my community doesn’t motivate reading too much.
Maya Almugheiri – English teacher, Alalbab School for Basic Education, Ibra, Oman
I like your style of teaching in terms of reading, writing or speaking. Your teaching helped me learn the language because you taught me the basic elements to the harder ones. The conversational part helped me in terms of pronouncing words and speaking in front of others. Your accent helped while I was studying at university in terms of pronunciation. I’m now using some of your teaching styles in my classes to improve my students’ language.
Raya Almugheiri (Maya’s sister) – EFL Teacher at Ibra School for Basic Education, Sharqiya North, Oman
I’m very grateful to Ms. Leona who taught me from her heart without ever being boring, and helped me ‘think in English’. I thank her for all her help with my final year project.
Hanan Sulaiyam Said Al Shekaili – Graduating with an English major
Now that I’m a teacher, I think of you often and am so thankful for everything you did for me. You really inspired me in my love for languages and cultures, which led me to where I am now. So many kids (now adults) from Sarapiqui have become successful individuals because you believed in us. I hope I can see you again one day.
Lorna Fair – Tham Spanish Teacher, Marietta, Georgia
Because all my jobs have required a second language, I’ve always been able to find work thanks to Leona’s teaching. I also had the opportunity to go to the States as a Rotary exchange student, which was a life-changing experience. Thank you, Leona, for helping me not only academically but in every single way you could. I’ve not had another opportunity like that one with her. But one thing I know, if I ever have the opportunity to help someone (like you did me), I will!
Yazmín Menjivar Miranda – English teacher at Liberty Christian Academy Costa Rica
I meet people who tell me that I speak fluent English even if I know I’m still learning. I always tell them that I had a great English teacher who encouraged me to practice and learn. So Leona, I’ll never stop thanking you!
Adán Serrano Quesada – Freelance whitewater instructor, Costa Rica
Tips for Learning a Foreign Language
Differences between EFL and ESL