Jo has worked in Higher Education for the past 25 years and has taught EFL, EAP, TEFL and Italian at the 成人B站 since 2008. She gained her MA in Applied Linguistics (TEFL) in 2003, specialising in first- and second-language acquisition and has a 1st class BA (Hons) degree in Modern Foreign Languages and TEFL. She was approved as Assistant CELTA Tutor by Cambridge English in February 2015. Prior to working in EFL she taught French and Italian in Further and Adult Education, in addition to running the Italian teaching programme at Aylesbury High School, and also worked as a specialist language tutor and freelance translator/interpreter for a number of commercial organisations.