My father,Brian Heaton, who has died aged 83, and was a world authority in teaching English as a foreign language,publishing under the name JB Heaton.
Son of Norman and Evelyn Heaton, Brian was born in Keighley, or West Yorkshire,where his father managed a wool factory. He studied English at Leeds University, returning there in 1968 as lecturer in English for abroad students. He subsequently developed this one-man, or one-room role into a freestanding internationally renowned English language unit.
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Source: theguardian.com