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Irena Farrell

Tutor

Office: 530
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, No.111 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Town, Suzhou Industrial Park

Suzhou , Jiangsu, China 215123
Work: (0512) 8816-1321

Education:

  1. MA in English Philology from Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; BA in Media Studies from Westminster University (former Polytechnic of Central London);
  2. TESOL Diploma from St. Mary’s College, London

Biography:

Start date at XJTLU: October 2008

Born in Poland in 1942. Residing in the United Kingdom since 1970.  Worked as a teacher of English both in Poland and the UK but retrained in the 70s to work in the media.  Worked for the British Coal Board Film Unit and then BBC Film Editing Department.  After early retirement from the BBC returned to teaching English from 2001 in SILC, Shanghai University, China for three non-consecutive years.