Director

Keith Armstrong

Keith comes from Bath in the south-west of England. He was Director of International House Tarragona from 2007 to 2017 and then spent three years as a language school inspector for International House World Organisation. Following the closure of the much-respected IH Tarragona in 2020, he founded a new language school in the same premises, Idiomes Tarraco, with the same commitment to quality language teaching. In addition to a degree in French and German, a Postgraduate Diploma in Conference Interpreting and the Cambridge DTEFLA, he has an MA in Applied Linguistics-English Language Teaching. He has taught English in the UK, France, Spain and Egypt and has previously worked as a Conference Interpreter and Tour Manager. He speaks English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German and is currently studying Greek online. As well as languages his hobbies include crosswords and travel. His most memorable trip was travelling down the Nile and across Lake Nasser for two weeks, ending up at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel.

Teacher

Sally Marks

Sally is a qualified teacher of English as a Foreign Language (Trinity TESOL) and Art and Design and has worked with children and teenagers for many years. She has attended a lot of training courses – including a NILE certificate – to be able to tailor her classes to very young learners. Sally is a Cambridge English speaking examiner and she teaches exam preparation classes. As well as teaching English in Spain she has lived and worked as a teacher in Hong Kong where she taught English at the British Council and also gave art classes to refugees as a volunteer. Sally likes combining teaching with culture and community activities. In her free time she likes to paint, draw and keep active. She has three cats and loves animals!

Teacher

ErikSeth Stewart

ErikSeth was born next to the beach in Santa Monica, California.  He was taken inland at a young age and grew up in Utah, Central California and Washington State.  He wasn’t able to return to the sea until he arrived in Catalonia in 1996 where he has since worked his way south from the Costa Brava to the Costa Daurada.  While in Barcelona, ErikSeth studied Catalan, French and Spanish to complement his work in tourism and hospitality and it was those experiences as a language student that led him to his vocation as an English teacher.  He obtained his CELTA in 2014 and his CELTYL in 2015 and has taught students of all ages, from pre-schoolers to retirement age, and all levels, from A1 (Beginner) to C2 (Proficiency).

 In addition to General English, he has also taught classes with a more specific focus, such as English for Work Purposes, Academic Purposes and exam preparation for IELTS and for Cambridge First Certificate and Cambridge Advanced. As a music enthusiast, ErikSeth is keen to use songs and jazz chants to enhance his classes and strengthen his students’ awareness of word and sentence stress in order to improve their listening skills and pronunciation.