Collaborators

 Michaelhouse, Cambridge

Michaelhouse is a café located in the centre of Cambridge, England. St. Michael’s Church is a Ministry of the Parish of St Mary the Great with St Michael, Cambridge. The Michaelhouse Centre, situated in St Michael’s Church, opened in 2002 as a unique Community resource in the City Centre. The Centre offers affordable meeting space for groups in an accessible venue. It comprises of a modern and well-equipped café, meeting rooms for hire, display/exhibition space, performance space and the medieval Hervey de Stanton Chapel, set aside for meditation and prayer. It is a registered charity. Emmerson and Carr visited Michaelhouse in September 2008 with media studies undergraduates Marcus and Anthony Essberger. The LEVP interviewed international members of staff in the café, focussing particularly on a young German work experience placement student named Clemens.

Silas S. Brown

Silas S Brown is a partially-sighted computer scientist at Cambridge University in the UK. The LEVP teamed up with Silas, who assisted in establishing an interview base at Cambridge University with a small group of ESL students from Malaysia.

LSI New York

LSI New York is based at the Manhattan campus of Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY). As a strategic partner of Metropolitan College of New York, LSI shares their urban campus located on the 12th floor of the One Hudson Square Building on the edge of SoHo close to the Financial District downtown. LSI is also works as the official ESL department at MCNY. Emmerson and Carr visited LSI in September 2008 and interviewed students from all over the world who had come to study English there.

IML Granada

The Institute of Modern Languages is the oldest language school in Andalusia and is the most reputable institution in Granada for ESL. The hard working academic staff provided Emmerson and Carr with groups of students who varied in age as much as they did in level. From pre-intermediate adults to elementary students, everybody had different things to say about the experiences in learning English.

American Academy Casablanca

American Academy Casablanca is a private, independent, co-educational day school founded in Casablanca in 2003. The school offers an American-style education to students from pre-school up through an American high school diploma. AAC’s approximately 200 students study mainly in the English language; however AAC takes pride in being a ‘trilingual’ school. In addition to English, students are also taught both of the official languages in Morocco, French and Arabic. The film crew visited the school in mid-October 2008 and found the staff and students to be most inviting.

International House Bucharest

International House Bucharest is similar to IML Granada in that it is a private language school consisting of students who take part in extra curricular activities twice a week. The institution provided us with students and teachers from Bucharest who were most enthusiastic about the project and able to provide the filmmakers with plenty of interesting information about English in Romania.