Aleksei Nekhaev graduated from a Teacher Training University and has 30 years of teaching experience. He has worked at both secondary schools and higher educational establishments. Aleksei is a teacher, teacher trainer and researcher. For the last 12 years, he has been living and working in Thailand. He is currently the Director of the Language and Lifelong Learning Centre and a Lecturer with the General Education Centre, as well as a PhD in Education candidate at Shinawatra University, in Pathum Thani, Thailand.

Despite the university degree, Aleksei was doing research at the Scientific Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of Vocational Education in Kazan, Russia, and the topic of his research was “Peculiarities and Content of Linguistic and Cultural Studies as Part of Establishing the Dialogue of Cultures”. His research interests are problems in teaching pronunciation, using literature in ELT classrooms, teaching life skills, psychology in ELT, and cultural studies in teaching English, developing functional literacy, and using a heuristic approach in education.