Ben Hecht grew up in a bilingual (English, German) household in Germany before moving to Canada as a teenager. Having completed his undergraduate Economics (1998) and History in Art (2000) degrees at the University of Victoria, Ben began his ESL teaching career in Taiwan. That’s where he caught the “language-teaching bug”, which led him to complete a Post-Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics (2003).
Since then, he lived and worked as an English instructor in Spain and Mexico, where he acquired Spanish at the advanced level. He then taught in Oman and Libya before returning to Canada and obtaining his MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham in 2010. Ben joined the English Language Program at North Island College as an instructor in 2012.
In terms of his reading preferences, Ben gravitates towards non-fiction and follows current events in English, German, and Spanish-language media. He also likes cooking and eating…