The Editor
Kieran McGovern is an
author of graded reading materials for English
language learners. He has written original stories and
adaptations for most of the major publishers in the
field including Heinemann, Oxford University Press,
Longman and Penguin.
Three of his titles were singled out for 'their particular
excellence' in Bamford and Day's Extensive Reading in the Second Language
Classroom (Cambridge, 1998) where he
was described as being 'amongst the best writers of
language learner materials in English.’ He has
also written articles and reviews for magazines and
journals including Seven Days and IATEFL Voices.
An enhanced edition of his collected Oxford Storyland
Readers (OUP) was published in late 2005 and he is
currently working on a new series of primary readers for
Mira, Turkey's leading ELT publisher. Did That Really
Happen?, a weekly series of quirky
news stories appears in the Hong Kong newspaper, Ming
Pao Daily and is republished on this site.
Kieran has a first degree in English from the University of
Leicester and an MA in Literary & Historical Studies
from Bath Spa University College. He currently teaches in
Bath, UK
ESL Reading features in the recently published,
Tips for Teaching with Call: Practical
Approaches to Computer -Assisted Languag
Learning (2008,
Pearson/Longman).
