Jessie Venegas

London, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Director Of Studies at Mander Portman Woodward Limited

Education

Jessie Venegas is an Oxford University graduate from the MSc Teaching and Learning with 10 years of teaching experience in five different continents. Her research has centred in finding strategies for motivating learners using a variety of tools and approaches. Jessie and Emmanuelle Cuccolo founded Starspeaking, a company that delivers bespoke language tuition programmes online and offline. Starspeaking was commissioned to design the academic component of a summer camp and teach English by capitalising on children’s interest in Football as a gateway to vocabulary and grammar. This is one in a number of similar projects that seeks to teach English in different ways task-based approache...