English Mistakes Italians Make

Paul Andrew Jarvis was born and educated in Birkenhead, England. His first English teaching experience was in Pau, France, where from 1984-1985 he worked as a language assistant at the Lycée Louis Barthou and the Collège du Bois d’Amour. After graduating from the University of Sheffield in 1986 with a degree in French Language and Literature, he spent two years teaching English to students in the Arts, Law and Science faculties of the University of Le Mans, in France. In 1989 he obtained a Post-Graduate Teaching Certificate in Modern Languages from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, before moving to Italy, where he taught EFL at Lord Byron College and the British School of Bari.

For the past 24 years he has taught English at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bari, and since the year 2000 he has also been lecturing at the Polytechnic of Bari. In addition, he has worked as a freelance translator, writes a monthly column for English language students in the online newspaper ＂da BITONTO＂ and is the author of several EFL books as well as two bilingual stories for children and a novel.