Hyland Language Centre

Hyland Language Centre is a language school, specializing in English Language Teaching, founded in 1985 in Madrid, Spain by David Garner.
History
Hyland Language Centre has been located in its present building in Madrid’s Serrano Street since 1985. Until 2003 Hyland Language Centre, previously known as International House Madrid - Serrano, was a member of the International House World Organisation. Hyland Language Centre is a member of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), ASEPROCE (Asociación Española de Promotores de Cursos en el Extranjero), ACADE (Asociación de Centros Autónomos de Enseñanza Privado), ACEDIM (Asociación de Centros de Enseñanza de Idiomas de Madrid), FECEI (Federación Española de Centros de Enseñanza de Idiomas) and of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and is a University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations Authorised Centre for Teaching Awards.
Directorship
David Garner - Founder/Director
After teaching English in Madrid in the early 1970s David Garner worked at the British Embassy in Madrid and the British Consulate in Alicante from 1977 to 1983. In 1983 he was appointed Director General of International House Madrid and he held this position until 1989.

David has worked as a consultant for language schools in Dublin (Ireland), Kiev and Odessa (Ukraine) and Shanghai (China).
David Leonida - Managing Director
Originally from Sydney, Australia, David has a degree in Business Management with a major in Marketing and International Business.
He started off his professional career in the advertising agency McCann-Erickson and also worked as an Events and Functions Director in an events and catering firm. After this, he completed a postgraduate TESOL course to become a qualified English language teacher.
He came to Spain in 1998 and worked as an English teacher for a number of years before working in an academic consultancy in Madrid. He worked there for 9 years in various positions including, Academic Counselor, Academic Director and General Manager. He joined Hyland Language Centre in July 2010.
Andrea Sweeney - Director of Studies
Andrea completed her BA in French and Spanish at Cambridge University and trained to be a teacher in the UK in 1996. After teaching in Indonesia , France and Italy she came to Hyland Language Centre (then International House Serrano) in 1998, where she completed the DELTA. She then worked for the British Council in Mexico as Senior Teacher responsible for academic development and later for the British Council in Portugal. She returned to Hyland Language Centre in September 2006 as Director of Studies.
Directors of Studies (past and present)
* Peter Moor, co-author of the Cutting Edge and New Cutting series and Real Life (Pearson Education) ; Making Headway and New Headway Pronunciation series (Oxford University Press)
* Alison Blair, co-author of Twister 3-6, English with Ellie (Richmond Publishing) ; Stardust, Zig-Zag Island, Animal Island, Magic Island and Galaxy (Oxford University Press)
* Dave Spencer, author of Teamwork and Top Team (both co-written with David Vaughan), Looking Forward, Macmillan Secondary Course and Key Revision (Macmillan)
* Ceri Jones, co-author of Inside Out Advanced and Straightforward Intermediate and Straightforward Upper Intermediate (Macmillan)
* Peter Jefferies, co-author of Twister (Richmond Publishing)
* Amanda Ingram, subsequently Director of Hyland Language Centre and currently Director of Studies of the British Council, Hong Kong
* Andrea Sweeney (current Director of Studies)
The School
Hyland Language Centre employs 45 teachers who teach English and French to over 600 adults and young learners in the school’s 13 classrooms. It also carries out curricular and extracurricular classes to approximately 2400 children in 11 infants, primary and secondary schools in Madrid, organizes language courses abroad, language training for companies and for Spanish school teachers: Hyland Language Centre is an accredited Cambridge CELTA training and examination centre.
The school prepares students for the University of Cambridge Starters, Movers, Flyers, KET, PET, First Certificate in English (FCE), Certificate in Advanced English (CAE), Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE), IELTS and International Legal English Certificate (ILEC) examinations as well as offering TOEFL preparation courses.

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