Chris Wakely, Modern Foreign Languages Course Associate Lecturer

Chris Wakely is a qualified teacher of French and German, with experience of teaching in comprehensive schools in different parts of the UK.  He also speaks and teaches Italian.  Since 1995 he has worked as Adviser for Modern Foreign Languages for Devon LEA, supporting teaching and learning in the County's primary, middle, special and secondary schools.  He is a qualified and experienced Ofsted Inspector and has been involved in teacher training since 1998. Chris is also co-ordinator of the West Country Comenius Centre, a modern languages resource base funded by CILT (Centre for Information in Language Teaching and Research).  In this role he is responsible for co-ordinating a regional support group for teaching languages in primary schools as part of the government's National Languages Strategy.