Alec Templeton (born in Ealing Middlesex, GB in 1948) started his teaching career in 1972. Ever since, he has been active as an English teacher in various Waldorf schools and at the Leonhard Gymnasium in Basel. He holds his teacher training courses in Germany, Estonia, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Finland, Italy, Hungary and Norway.
In his numerous pedagogical articles and books, he emphasizes the presentation of exercises that lead from theoretical language learning to skill-level use of the language according to age groups.