Taliesin has studied at 3 of Australia’s Top 5 universities! He has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics (M.App.Ling.) from Monash University (currently ranked #73 in the world, and a Master’s degree in Education (M.Ed.) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of New England, Armidale, Australia (Top 500 in the world). During his Bachelor’s degree (studied at both University of Queensland – ranked 60th – and Melbourne University – ranked 33rd), while majoring in Philosophy, he also dabbled in Russian, Spanish, Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew and even Classical Sanskrit… so, he understands language learning!

He also has the Cambridge University ESOL Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), the world’s most widely accepted qualification for teaching English to non-native speakers!

In addition to those qualifications (and I have many more!!!), I was also an IELTS examiner in the east China region – Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, etc – for both the Speaking and Writing tests.

I have extensive knowledge on academic writing – one of the major issues with Chinese students. In that regard, a quick and easy formula to learn will get scores increased by 0.5 bands within 2 weeks!

I focus on students who need a score of 6.5 or higher in Writing and Speaking.