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Authors

Adrian Doff

Adrian Doff has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Finland, Yugoslavia, Britain, Lebanon and Egypt. He is co-author of Meanings into Words and the Language in Use series; author of the teacher training course Teach English; series editor of Cambridge Skills for Fluency series and co-author of Listening 1, 2 and 4 in that series; and one of the authors of English Unlimited. He is currently living in Germany and working as a freelance writer and teacher trainer.

Adrian Wallwork

Adrian Wallwork has been a Desk Editor at BBC Radio Times and a teacher at the British School in Pisa. He is now a freelance teacher and writer. His publications: teacher resource books for Cambridge University Press – Discussions A-Z (Intermediate and Advanced) and The Book of Days. Articles for Practical English Teaching and Speak Up.

Alan Battersby

Alan Battersby has taught at language schools in Italy and Cambridge and has always taken an interest in writing language learning materials. After completing a Master's in Second Language Materials Development, he decided to go freelance. Now resident in rural France, he divides his time between writing, gardening and DIY. He makes regular trips back to the UK to teach at Anglia Ruskin University. His interests include travel, cookery and traditional music and he plays flute, banjo and mandolin. He takes a particular interest in learning about all aspects of life, culture and language of the United States, which he draws upon for his readers, all written in American English. Cambridge University Press publications East 43rd Street (Cambridge English Readers) High Life, Low Life (Cambridge English Readers) This Time it's Personal (Cambridge English Readers)

Alan Maley

Alan Maley has been in the field of TESL for over 40 years. After being at the University of Leeds under Peter Strevens in the early 1960s, he worked as an English Language Officer with the British Council for over 25 years. His career took him to places as diverse as Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, P.R. China and India. He left the Council in 1988 to take over as Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge, where he stayed for 5 years. Between 1988 and 1992 he was the Chair of IATEFL and was very active in promoting links with other teachers' associations worldwide, especially in Central Europe. In 1993 he took up a position as Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, where he stayed for 5 years. He subsequently set up and directed the Master's programme in ELT at Assumption University Bangkok. (1999-2004). He currently divides his time between work asVisiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University, writing, short-term teaching assignments, mainly in SE Asia, and freelance consultancy work. He has been active in the field of publishing for many years, especially in the area of resource books for teachers. At present he is working on a study of the phenomena of repetition and reformulation in language teaching. Cambridge University Press publications Drama Techniques (2005, 3rd edition) (with Alan Duff, Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) A Tangled Web (Cambridge English Readers) He Knows Too Much (Cambridge English Readers) The Best of Times? (Cambridge English Readers)

Alan Pulverness

Alan Pulverness has worked in Canada, Germany, Italy and the UK as an ELT teacher and teacher trainer. He has also acted as a consultant on materials writing and syllabus design projects in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. He was Joint Chief Examiner for CEELT (the Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers) and is a Chief Moderator for the Cambridge COTE and ICELT teachers' schemes, as well as a DELTA assessor and moderator. He is the author or co-author of a number of ELT textbooks and videos, and is a past recipient of the ESU / Duke of Edinburgh book award.

Alex Tilbury

Alex is a teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer, occasional book reviewer and inspector for International House. His professional interests include pedagogical grammar, second language acquisition and the evolution of English as a lingua franca.

Alice Savage

Alice Savage has been involved in TESL for the past 18 years.  She has an MA in TESL from the School of International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont and a CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) from Cambridge ESOL.  Alice is a co-author of the New Vista series (Longman) and also co-authored books 1 and 2 of the Effective Academic Writing series (Oxford, 2005).  Alice is on the faculty of North Harris College in Houston, Texas and is an active participant in TESOL and has attended the past 15 international TESOL conferences.

Almut Koester

Almut Koester is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham and has also taught in Germany.

Amanda Thomas

Amanda is the author of several coursebooks and workbooks preparing students for Cambridge English Examinations, including Compact PET.

Amy Krois-Lindner

Amy has taught Language Competence at the University of Vienna for over ten years. She also teaches Business English and Academic Writing and is a teacher trainer. Amy played a role in the development of a departmental ESP module with certification and has been involved in the curriculum development of several ESP courses at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences and the Vienna University of Technology. Amy is co-author of International Legal English

Andrew Littlejohn

Dr Andrew Littlejohn has taught English, trained teachers and run short courses in a number of countries including the UK, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and the Middle East. He is three times a winner of English-Speaking Union Awards, presented at Buckingham Palace, for his writings in ELT methodology. He has published in numerous journals and edited collections and is the author of many books published by Cambridge University Press, including Company to Company, Writing 1, Writing 2, Writing 3, and Writing 4. With Diana Hicks, he is co-author of Cambridge English for Schools, Cambridge English Worldwide, and Primary Colours. He is co-editor of Classroom Decision-Making (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and is or has been an editorial advisor to a number of journals, including Applied Linguistics. Dr Littlejohn currently teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, but previously taught at the Institute of Education, London, and in the Dept of Linguistics at Lancaster University in the UK

Andy Kirkpatrick

Andy Kirkpatrick is currently Head of the Department of English at Hong Kong Institute of Education and sits on the international editorial board of The New English Teacher. He is author of World Englishes, Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching (2007). From 1997–2005 he was Professor of Language Education at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He developed and wrote the World Englishes unit currently taught at Curtin. He is a specialist in 'China English' who has taught in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as in Australia, England, Myanmar and Singapore. He was editor of English Australia Journal from 1999–2004.

Ann Baker

Ann Baker is the original author of Ship or Sheep? the UK title from which the first edition of Pronunciation Pairs was developed.

Anne O'Keeffe

Anne O’Keeffe is senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the co-author of From Corpus to Classroom, Vocabulary Matrix: Understanding, Learning, Teaching and Introducing Pragmatics in Use.

Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson is the Senior Presenter for Cambridge ESOL in Spain and writes the Cambridge ESOL Spain Teaching Together Blog. She has extensive experience with learners of all ages and began teaching in Madrid, Spain in 1985. For eleven years, she was the Director of International House Santander. Anne has been involved in the Cambridge ESOL YLE tests since before their launch in 1997, piloting the tests and administering them in numerous venues in her region each year. She has also written seminars and web material for Cambridge ESOL. Anne is an Oral Examiner for all levels of the Cambridge ESOL exams. Anne is the author of Fun for Starters, Movers and Flyers First Edition and co-author of the Second Edition of Fun for Starters, Movers and Flyers with Karen Saxby. She is a regular speaker at Spanish and international conferences and enjoys the contact with teachers and their feedback on her materials and ideas.  

Annette Capel

Annette has been involved in the English Profile Programme since 2007, developing the six-level English Vocabulary Profile. Annette has co-authored four of the titles in the 'Objective' series of exam courses (Objective First Certificate, Objective Proficiency, Objective KET and Objective IELTS).

Annie Broadhead

Annie Broadhead works as a teacher and teacher trainer based in Cambridge. She works closely with Cambridge ESOL as an examiner, exam writer, Team Leader for Speaking tests and senior seminar presenter.

Antoinette Moses

Antoinette Moses is a writer and playwright. Her plays have won several competitions and have been produced or received rehearsed readings in Norwich, Cambridge, Ipswich, London and Paris. Her books range from media studies and poetry to a guidebook to Athens, where she lived for four years. Antoinette teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia where she is working on a PhD on verbatim (documentary) theatre. She has also worked as an editor, journalist, film festival director and for music and poetry festivals. Two of her Cambridge English Readers have won awards from the Extensive Reading Foundation: Let Me Out and Jojo's Story, which has been described by one reviewer as 'one of the most important books of all time'. Cambridge University Press publications: Apollo's Gold (Cambridge English Readers) Dolphin Music (Cambridge English Readers) Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life (Cambridge English Readers) John Doe (Cambridge English Readers) Jojo's Story (Cambridge English Readers) Let Me Out (Cambridge English Readers) The Girl at the Window (Cambridge English Readers) Book Boy (Cambridge English Readers)

Arthur Hughes

Arthur Hughes taught applied linguistics at the University of Reading for twenty-five years, setting up and directing the Testing and Evaluation Unit there. On leave from Reading, he directed English language testing projects at Bosphorus University, Istanbul (1982–4) and in the Ministry of Secondary Education, Morocco (1992–3). He was joint founder-editor of the international journal Language Testing, and has published widely in the field of testing and has carried out consultancies in the United Kingdom and in several countries overseas. Now retired, he continues to write and act as a consultant, dividing his time between rural Wales and the south of Spain.

Arthur McKeown

Arthur works at the University of Ulster, where he teaches at the Business Institute on a range of programmes for private, public and not for profit client organisations. He is co-author of Professional English in Use Management.

Barbara Thomas

Barbara has worked in EFL since 1977. She has experience as a teacher and editor - writing, editing and revising exam papers across a range of skills and levels.

Ben Goldstein

Ben lives in Barcelona and works as an English teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer. He has taught for over twenty years in the UK, Spain and Hong Kong and currently teaches Materials Writing on an online ESOL Masters at The New School, New York. He has published the teacher's handbook Working with Images and is the co-author of the English Unlimited Advanced coursebook. His current interests in language teaching are the changing status of English as a Lingua Franca, the use of images and different text types in materials writing and developing intercultural awareness in the classroom.

Bernard Smith

Bernard Smith has been a teacher and writer for 40 years, specialising for the last 30 in EFL. He has worked in South Yemen, Libya and Oman, teaching Arabic and English and writing teaching books and materials. He was Director of Studies of several ARELS schools in the UK, and was also Controller and principal author of the Oxford-ARELS oral examinations for twenty challenging and enjoyable years. After retiring from teaching, he continues to write EFL books on a freelance basis. Cambridge University Press publications Learner English (editor, with Michael Swan) The Man from Nowhere (Cambridge English Readers)

Bernie Hayden

Bernie Hayden has 14 years' experience teaching General and Business English in Spain and the UK, during which time he was also an ELT examiner, teacher trainer and External Assessor of training courses. He has been a consultant in ELT publishing since 1990, and editor of various General and Business English titles, including Business Vocabulary in Use (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Bill Mascull

Bill has taught English and trained teachers in the north of Sweden, the south of France, and Paris, where he became increasingly interested in the relationship between teaching materials and classroom interaction with business English learners, pre-work and in-company. Corpus-based language analysis has greatly influenced his books on business vocabulary and the business dictionaries on which he has collaborated. He is the author of Cambridge University Press’s Business Vocabulary in Use (Elementary/Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, and Advanced levels, now in their second edition, 2010), and was one of the editors on the Cambridge Business English Dictionary (2011).

Bob Dignen

Bob Dignen studied English at Leicester University, obtaining a BA and MA. In 1990 he entered teaching and spent one year in Eastern Germany teaching Business English within a government re-development programme for this region. For the last 10 years he has been teaching Business English within the UK. In 1994 he began working for York Associates as a freelancer. His responsibilities took him to France, Switzerland, Portugal, Russia and the Ukraine, providing tailored language training to a wide range of professional and technical personnel. In September 2000 he joined York Associates as a partner. He currently specialises in delivering intercultural and international team training programmes. When not teaching, he enjoys writing materials for Business English, including English language training materials.

Bob Obee

Bob Obee is an ELT author and teacher trainer who has worked in many regions of the world. He was previously Director of Studies at the British Council Teaching Centres in Athens and Kuala Lumpur.

Brian Tomlinson

Throughout his career, Brian has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer and university lecturer in Japan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Singapore, the UK, Vanuatu and Zambia. He is also founder and president of the Materials Development Association (MATSDA) a non-profit making international association that brings together researchers, publishers, writers and teachers to work together towards the development of high quality materials for the learning of languages. Brian has written and published many articles and books including Materials Development in Language Teaching.

Carlos Barbisan

Carlos Barbisan graduated from Reading University at the University of Cambridge. He was an experienced teacher, teacher trainer, and course book writer. Carlos taught in Uruguay and Brazil and ran courses for teachers in Latin America and Europe. He wrote course books for teaching English to children, adolescents, and adults. His main area of interest was teaching young adolescents.

Carol A Chapelle

Carol A. Chapelle is Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University. She is co-editor of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics series and has published widely on issues in computer technology and applied linguistics. She is past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2006–7) and former editor of TESOL Quarterly (1999–2004).  

Caroline Nixon

Caroline has been teaching English since 1983. She is Director and Co-proprietor of a successful English school in Murcia, Spain. She is co-author of Primary Activity Box, Primary Vocabulary Box, Primary Grammar Box, Primary Pronunciation Box, Primary Communication Box and Primary Reading Box for Cambridge University Press. She gives teacher-training workshops in Portugal, Spain and England.

Carolyn Walker

Carolyn Walker started teaching O and A Level English in 1973 and has taught EFL since 1975. She has an RSH Dip (1977) and an MA in Applied Linguistics (York University 1981). She has worked in Spain and UAE as an EFL teacher. Teacher training includes British Council Summer Schools in Exeter, Swansea, Manchester, and overseas in Algeria, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Cambridge University Press publications Deadly Harvest (Cambridge English Readers) The Beast (Cambridge English Readers)

Catherine Walter

Catherine Walter has taught and trained teachers in France, Britain and the United States. She now works freelance as a materials developer and teacher trainer, and is also the author of Genuine Articles and the co-author of The New Cambridge English Course.

Ceri Jones

Chris J. Nuttall

Chris J. Nuttall is an experienced teacher and examiner in Business Studies and the author of some fourteen Business Studies textbooks that have been widely used in schools and colleges in the UK and abroad. These include four published by Cambridge University Press: Foundation Business (1996); Edexcel GCSE Business Studies (2001); IGCSE Business Studies (2002); Cambridge Career Award in Business (2003).

Chris Redston

Chris Redston has been in ELT for more than fifteen years, teaching in Turkey, Argentina and the UK for International House. He has also run teacher-training courses in Italy and the UK, and is an experienced author of adult course materials. He has travelled extensively, visiting over forty countries.

Christina Smolder

Christina has a broad range of teaching experience spanning over 15 years. She has also been heavily involved in curriculum development, and has written an article on the subject for International House Journal.

Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones has taught English in Nigeria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Britain and Canada. He is co-author of Meanings into Words and the Language in Use series, and has also written a number of computer packages for language learning, including Wida Software's Authoring Suite. He is currently living in the West of England and working as a freelance writer.

Chuck Sandy

Professor Chuck Sandy has directed English language programs and taught in universities, language institutes, and teacher-education centers in Japan, the United States, Korea, and Brazil. In addition, he is a frequent lecturer on English language teaching throughout Asia, South America, and the United States. He is Professor of English Language and Culture at Chubu University in Japan.

Cindy Leaney

Cindy Leaney has been active in English language teaching for over 20 years, as a teacher, teacher trainer and author. She has lived and worked in Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, England, and the United States. Currently she divides her time between writing and directing an English language teaching program at Essex University in the U.K. Cindy is the author of 38 books for US elementary schools, including a dictionary and thesaurus, the Friendly Phonics series, and the Hero Club series. In the Know is her third ELT title for adults.

Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell has worked in English teaching for almost 30 years. He has been a teacher, teacher-trainer and consultant in a number of countries, including Poland, Spain, Italy, Ireland and England. He has also been involved in setting up language schools in Italy and Poland. Some of his favourite memories from his career are: co-hosting a Learning English television series for local television in Italy; recording Irish songs for a Children's coursebook in Poland; writing original readers for Cambridge University Press and, still, teaching students anywhere. In addition to teaching, training and writing, Colin Campbell does voluntary counselling work in London. Cambridge University Press publications Parallel (Cambridge English Readers) The Ironing Man (Cambridge English Readers) The Lady in White (Cambridge English Readers) What a Lottery! (Cambridge English Readers)

Craig Fletcher

Craig worked for 9 years as an EFL teacher in Osaka and then Kumamoto, Japan. Since 2008 he has worked as an Academic Skills tutor for Kaplan’s Sheffield International College, teaching writing, researching and critical thinking to pre-undergraduate and postgraduate students preparing to enter the University of Sheffield. From 2010 he has also been researching and writing elements of the Skills for Study series of books.

Craig Thaine

Craig has been involved in ELT for 30 years. He is Cambridge DTEFLA qualified and also has an MA (Hons.) in Applied Linguistics. He has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in many different countries including England, Italy, Egypt, Sweden and New Zealand. He is currently Director of Teacher Training at Languages International, Auckland and is a Cambridge ESOL Teaching Awards assessor for both the CELTA and Delta schemes. Craig has extensive experience developing and teaching English language courses to adult learners, including ESP and EAP courses. Craig is co-author of Real Listening and Speaking Level 2 (2008) as well as being author of Teacher Training Essentials (2010) and Cambridge Academic English Intermediate (2012). His publications include Real Listening & Speaking 2 (Cambridge English Skills), Teacher Training Essentials (Cambridge Copy Collection) and Cambridge Academic English (co-authored with Martin Hewings)

Dan Douglas

Dan Douglas is Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University. His research centres on language testing, and he is past president of the International Language Testing Association (2005–6). He has served on the board of editors of several journals, including Language Testing and English for Specific Purposes.

Daphne Mackey

Daphne Mackey is a veteran ESL professional, who has been in the field for over 30 years.  In 1979, while working at Boston University Center for English Language and Orientation Programs (CELOP), she co-authored her first book, Contact USA (Pearson, 1996). This highly successful low-level reading book has been published in four editions since then and is still in print. Since writing Contact USA, Daphne has authored or co-authored twelve textbooks and contributed to four others.  For the past twenty years Daphne has been working in the English Language Programs at the University of Washington as a program administrator and lecturer. She has also taught in the MBA program at Pacific Lutheran University and done training in business communication.

David A Hill

David A Hill trained and worked as a primary school teacher in the UK before moving into ELT; he has an M.Phil in Applied Linguistics from Exeter University. David has taught EFL full time in Italy and Serbia, and worked for the British Council for 18 years, 12 of which as the Council's state sector teacher trainer for Northern Italy. Since 1998 he has worked out of Budapest as a freelance consultant, travelling annually to around 10 different countries for work with students, teachers, teachers' associations, ministries and the British Council. He has worked for IATEFL since 1988, holding various posts in the Association, and is currently the Coordinator of the Literature, Media and Cultural Studies SIG. His main interests within ELT are the teaching of young learners and teenagers, materials development, literature in language teaching and teacher training. David spends half of his year writing educational materials. Outside the ELT world David is a published poet and translator of poetry and a naturalist who has written many articles for professional journals on ornithology and botany. He plays guitar, piano, harmonica and sings in a gigging blues band, and is also a performer of traditional English folk song. He is an expert on Art Nouveau architecture and design, and is especially fond of William Morris. Cambridge University Press publications A Matter of Chance (Cambridge English Readers) How I Met Myself (Cambridge English Readers)

David Bohlke

David Bohlke has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, teacher trainer, program director, editor, and materials developer. He has taught in universities, high schools, language institutes, and corporations in Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco, and has conducted multiple teacher- training workshops around the world. He specializes in creating fun, flexible, and easy-to-use classroom materials.

David Clark

David Clark is an item writer on several Cambridge ESOL business exams, including BULATS, a Principle Examiner for BEC writing and Chair of the Computer-Based BULATS exam.

David Evans

After working as a Business English trainer in London and Paris, David Evans became Director of one of the UK's top executive language training centres and then moved on to be editor of an ELT magazine. Since 1991, he has been a full time writer and broadcaster. He is a radio producer for the BBC World Service and has written over two hundred radio programmes. His voice is well-known as the presenter of series such as 'Pop Words', 'Make or Break' and 'Arabic English Time'. David has also written four books and has given lectures and workshops in twelve countries.

David Hall

David is Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has taught curriculum innovation, management and language for specific purposes at masters level.

David Marsh

David Marsh has worked on multilingualism and bilingual education since the 1980s. He was part of the team which conducted groundwork leading to the launch of the term Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in 1994. Born in Australia, educated in the UK and now based in Finland, he has extensive experience of teacher development, capacity-building, research and consultancy in a range of different countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. He was awarded a joint commendation by the English Speaking Union in 2008 for publishing work on CLIL, and a 2009 Estonian Education Sciences Award for Applied Didactics. He has published widely and is now specialising in the identification of brain-compatible language learning methodologies.

David McKeegan

David McKeegan has been a freelance author of English Language Teaching materials for sixteen years.

David Morrison

David Morrison was born in Gateshead in the North East of England and went to university in Swansea, Wales. He has worked as an English teacher in France and Spain and, more recently, as an editor of teenage fiction and textbooks. He has a special interest in South America and is currently working on a screenplay set in Mexico. He is also trying to finish his first full-length novel and is a keen road cyclist. Cambridge University Press publications The Mind Map (Cambridge Discovery Readers)

David Rea

David has worked in ELT for fourteen years, having taught English and trained teachers in Poland, Egypt, Argentina, France and the UK. Before becoming freelance in 2006, he was a member of the teacher training staff at International House, London. He is currently studying for an MA in ELT and Applied Linguistics at the Institute of Education, London University. His current interests include finding ways of implementing a lexical syllabus in ELT material.

David Sang

David Sang is the author of over 100 textbooks used in secondary schools around the world. He was a research physicist at Leeds University for nine years before turning to teaching. He has taught Physics in a high school, a sixth-form college and a university. Now he devotes himself to writing textbooks and developing other teaching resources including multimedia. He has edited books and websites aimed at helping teachers to teach Physics, and is physics editor of Catalyst magazine.

Debra Powell

Debra Powell has taught in Africa, and for the British Council in Singapore. She has been involved in teaching, teacher development, materials production and examining. She is co-author of Compact, a series of coursebooks, and the author of numerous articles appearing in several journals. She is an examiner for IELTS and an examiner and moderator for Trinity College London. At present, her freelance activities include lecturing at Sussex Downs College. She holds a BA Hons, RSA Dip TEFLA and an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.

Denise Santos

Dennis Johnson

Dennis Johnson has been an ESL Instructor at City College of San Francisco, teaching all levels of ESL since 1977. He has many years' experience as an ESL Site Coordinator and is the author of Get Up and Go, and co-author of The Immigrant Experience.

Diana Goodey

After graduating with a degree in Sociology, Diana trained as an EFL teacher at International House in London and taught EFL across the ability range at IH London and IH Paris. In Paris she acted in and wrote material for the English Teaching Theatre. She has taught teenagers in France and at summer school in England, and has worked as a teacher trainer in France and at Exeter University. Diana has co-authored two successful courses for secondary schools – 'Imagine you're English' and 'Channel'. She has an M.Ed. in English Language Teaching from Exeter University with her dissertation focusing on 'The design of a course book for secondary school students'.

Diana Hicks

Dr Diana Hicks has recently returned from Qatar where she was a consultant trainer for the Supreme Education Council, Doha, working with a team to prepare materials to prpeare 600 teachers to work in bilingual Independent Schools. She has also worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Bahrain. She wears two hats – she is a textbook writer and a trainer/consultant. She has been writing textbooks for Cambridge University Press for more than 25 years and is particularly interested in materials and tasks for ELT which combine language learning and learning through language within a Bilingual/CLIL framework. Diana has published (with Andrew Littlejohn) Cambridge English for Schools – a five level course for secondary learners, Cambridge English Worldwide – a six level course for secondary learners, and more recently (also with Andrew Littlejohn) Primary Colours, a six level course for young children. She is now working with Linguaphone to produce a three level pre-school English course called Pingu's English. All titles are used globally in both bilingual and monolingual schools. She has been working as a Comenius trainer for the EU for fifteen years and has worked with teachers and students in more than 40 countries worldwide. She has given papers and run training days in over 25 countries. Diana has a doctorate from the University of Bristol in the Critical Discourse Analysis of the discourse of teachers' methodology.

Diana Hopkins

Diana Hopkins has been working in the area of English Language Teaching for 25 years. She is co-author of Passport to IELTS. Developing Grammar in Context, and the main author of Cambridge Grammar for IELTS.

Do Coyle

Do Coyle has been Professor of Learning Innovation at the University of Aberdeen since summer 2008. She came to Aberdeen from the University of Nottingham, where she was Associate Professor of Education, Co-Director of the university's CETL-Visual Learning Lab and member of the Learning Sciences Research Institute. Professor Coyle is an international expert in CLIL and has played a major role in the European movement associated with bilingual and modern languages education. Working towards the 'borderless classroom', she has created innovative approaches to video conferencing using the Teaching and Learning Observatory concept. She is a member of the international research group on learning strategies (IPOLLS), the European research group for CLIL (CLILCOM) and is guest editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Donna Price

Donna Price is Associate Professor of ESL and Vocational ESL/Technology Resource Instructor for the Continuing Educational ESL program at San Diego Community College. She has taught all levels of ESL for 20 years and is the author of Skills for Success.

Elizabeth Chin

As a language professional, Betty holds a BA in Languages and a doctorate in Linguistics from USP (University of São Paulo). She has taught English for over eighteen years at renowned language schools such as Alumni and Yázigi, coordinated the English department at Unique, and been a college professor. She then took a further step as an independent teacher trainer. Her special interests include language theory, with emphasis on pronunciation and grammar, and how it applies to TEFL.

Ellie Tragakes

Ellie Tragakes is a highly experienced author and a widely published economist holding a Ph.D. degree. She is also an economics professor at The American College of Greece, Athens.

Emma Heyderman

Emma Heyderman has been involved in EFL since 1989. She is the co-author of Complete PET.

Felicity O'Dell

Dr Felicity O'Dell is a part-time tutor at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she helps to run a course in Online Education and Training. She is also chair of UCLES CAE Writing Paper and Listening Papers for the Cambridge Young Learners Tests. She is also author and/or co-author of over 40 EFL books including: Academic Vocabulary in Use, English Vocabulary in Use Elementary, English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate, English Vocabulary in Use Advanced, Basic Vocabulary in Use, English Phrasal Verbs in Use, English Phrasal Verbs in Use Advanced, English Collocations in Use, English Collocations in Use Advanced, English Idioms in Use, English Idioms in Use Advanced Games for Vocabulary Practice and Objective CAE.

Fiona Davis

Fiona Davis has taught English in Portugal, Spain, The Instituto Anglo-Mexicano de Cultura AC in Mexico, The British Council in Ecuador and The Bell Language School, London. Since 1999, she has worked in EFL publishing as a project manager and editor, with a particular interest in user-friendly materials for primary and secondary age students. She has edited several books for Cambridge University Press, including Exploring Grammar in Writing and Grammar for CAE and Proficiency.

Francis O'Hara

Francis O'Hara is an English language teacher, author and translator. Born in Ireland, trained in the UK, Switzerland and Italy he has over 25 years experience of teaching, researching and writing, 20 of these years spent in the south of France where he now lives and works. He is the author of Be My Guest, the successful English language course for the hotel and catering industry, published by Cambridge University Press in 2002.  Visit his dedicated Be My Guest website at http://www.be-my-guest.net. He has also published a number of prize-winning poems, stories and articles for the international press. Please feel free to contact the author at [email protected].

Frank Brennan

Frank Brennan comes from the North West of England and is a graduate of the University of Wales. He has worked as an actor and writer in a theatre group for schools before going on to teach English and Drama in secondary schools both in the UK and in Singapore. He has edited books of short stories and plays; written literature guide books for secondary students; written short stories for Cambridge and other publishers and is currently working on a new work of fiction. His interests include music, history and cinema Cambridge University Press publications Circle Games (Cambridge English Readers) Tales of the Supernatural (Cambridge English Readers) The Fruitcake Special and Other Stories (Cambridge English Readers) Three Tomorrows (Cambridge English Readers) Windows of the Mind (Cambridge English Readers) Tasty Tales (Cambridge Discovery Readers)

Gareth Knight

Gareth Knight has worked in teacher education in Asia since 1990. With an MSc in TESP from Aston University, he trained teachers of Business English and high school teachers in Japan. He has also taught MA TEFL and MEd Linguistics courses at Srinakharinwirot University in Thailand.

Gavin Dudeney

Gavin has worked in education since 1988, as a teacher, materials developer, IT manager and web/user interface designer. His blend of pedagogical and technical skills has taken him around the world – primarily for the International House World Organisation, but also for the British Council and other entities – helping them to bridge the gap between their training and teaching portfolio and their technical needs. Until the end of 2003 he held two posts: the first as Head of the New Technologies Department at International House Barcelona, and the second as Lead Developer for the online training centre Net Languages. In 2003 he left to set up the Consultants-E (an online training and development agency – http://www.theconsultants-e.com) and has worked as the Project Director since then. His work involves project planning and delivery, as well as the Consultants-E EduNation presence in Second Life. Apart from his work with the Consultants-E, he is the web manager for a wide range of educational organisations and is a past Coordinator of the IATEFL Learning Teachnologies Special Interest Group, as well as editor of its newsletter – The CALL Journal. His other work for IATEFL includes the management of the Associates website and discussion form (PAL). In 2007 he was elected Honorary Secretary. He can be contacted at: [email protected].

George Kershaw

George Kershaw has been teaching English for over thirty years in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia (including Thailand) and the Pacific regions.  For the last decade or so he has been a lecturer with the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, UAE. Cambridge University Press publications Nothing but the Truth (Cambridge English Readers)

George Sandford

George has been involved in management training and consultancy for over 20 years. He has a degree in Business and Finance from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma with CIPD (the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) from Sheffield Business School. In addition to his training expertise, George has written articles for national and international management magazines such Personnel Today (UK), Personel i Zarzdzanie (Poland), Think in English, English Matters and Business English Magazine (Managing People section) of which he is also editor. He is also author of various Business English language resources – Business English Phrasebook, Crazy English, Amazingly Easy Phrasal Verbs (Praski Publishing).

Geraldine Mark

Geraldine Mark has taught English in Spain, France and the UK and has many years of experience in publishing and writing for English language teaching. She was closely involved in the development of The Cambridge Grammar of English and, along with Anne O'Keeffe, is researching and writing the grammar reference level descriptors for English Profile.

Gillian Lazar

Gillian Lazar is a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London. Prior to that, she worked as a freelance teacher trainer, lexicographer and materials writer. She has also worked as a teacher at the British Council, Athens and teacher / teacher trainer at International House, London. She has run workshops for teachers in France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Denmark, South Africa, Germany and Hungary. She has written materials for the BBC World Service and has contributed articles to magazines and journals, including the English Language Teaching Journal, TESOL Quarterly and English Teaching Professional. She is the author of Literature and Language Teaching: A Guide for Teachers and Trainers (1993), A Window on Literature (1999) and Meanings and Metaphors (2003).

Gillie Cunningham

Gillie Cunningham has been in ELT since 1973, working mainly for International House and the Bell Educational Trust as a teacher and a teacher trainer. She is an experienced author of adult courses and has also been closely involved with the Cambridge ESOL DELTA examinations. Gillie is also the co-author, with Chris Redston, of Cambridge University Press's adult course face2face.

Graeme Porte

Graeme is editor of the Cambridge journal, Language Teaching, and organised the AAAL colloquium upon which many of the contributions in the book are based and is currently one of the main protagonists behind the drive for more replication research in the field of SLA and AL. Graeme currently researches L1 attrition and the way recent discoveries about human perception impact on SLA. He has published widely in international journals and his book on research critique Appraising Research in Second Language Learning is used on over 50 SLA doctoral courses worldwide and received its second edition in 2011.

Graham Palmer

Graham Palmer has been involved in language teaching since 1989, teaching in Turkey and the UK and working as a DoS and Principal. He believes skills work is crucial in helping language learners become fluid and fluent communicators. He has been chair of the Cambridge English Language Teachers' Association, edited the IATEFL Literature and Cultural Studies SIG Newsletter and has given papers at conferences, including IATEFL. He has also had five booklets of poetry published, worked as a freelance arts journalist and writes on historical subjects. Cambridge University Press publications Real Writing 1 and 2 (Cambridge English Skills) Writing Extra (Cambridge Copy Collection)  

Gretchen Bitterlin

Gretchen Bitterlin has been an ESL instructor and ESL department instructional leader with the Continuing Education Program, San Diego Community College District since 1971. She was an ESL Teacher Institute Trainer and Chair of the TESOL Task Force on Adult Education Program Standards. She is co-author of English for Adult Competency.

Günter Gerngross

Günter Gerngross holds a PhD in Education from the University of Graz, Austria. He is a Professor of English at the Pädagogische Akademie in Graz and teaches English language teaching methodology at Graz University. He has been a speaker at various international conferences. For more than two decades he has focused on classroom research, including the practical application of cognitive psychology to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Günter has co-authored numerous text books and resource books.

Guy Brook-Hart

Guy Brook-Hart has taught English for over 30 years. He started teaching in Egypt and has since worked in Kuwait, France, Britain and Spain where he works for the British Council. With Cambridge University Press he has published Instant IELTS (2004), Business Benchmark Vantage (2006), Business Benchmark Higher (2007), Complete First Certificate (2008), with Simon Haines Complete CAE (2009), with Vanessa Jakeman Complete IELTS 4.5-5 (2012) and Complete IELTS 5-6.5 (2012). He is currently working on new editions of Business Benchmark and the third level of Complete IELTS.

Hayley McCarthy

Degree in English from Cambridge University. Hayley's research interests in intercultural communication in the call center industry have prompted several of her articles on this issue to be published in both local and international periodicals allied with the industry. Hayley has experience working as a consultant for call centers and BPOs across Asia as well as on several intercultural communication curriculum development projects.

Helen Everett-Camplin

Helen Everett-Camplin has worked in the field of ELT for over 20 years, as tutor, writer, researcher and examiner. She has a first degree in French Studies and an MA in TEFL. Her research into the psychology of second language learning has led her to design specialist course materials for a range of learners and to write and contribute to publications on good practice. In addition to freelance writing, Helen continues to deliver training programmes in the UK at Further and Higher Education level and also works as an assistant examiner and oral assessor for Cambridge ESOL. Cambridge University Press publications Grandad's Magic Gadgets (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Two Worlds (Cambridge Discovery Readers)  

Helen Hadkins

Helen Hadkins began teaching in the UK, but soon moved to Spain, where she has been teaching and teacher training for over twenty years. She has worked on CELTA and DELTA courses, as well as participating in courses for Spanish primary and secondary teachers. She is currently a teacher at the British Council in Madrid. Before Interactive, she co-authored Tactics, a Cambridge University Press coursebook for Spanish upper secondary students. Her interests include intercultural awareness, developing speaking skills and using literature in the language classroom. When she has time, she likes to escape to the hills or the cinema.

Helen Naylor

Helen Naylor has taught English to adults for over 30 years in language schools in the UK. Currently, she's working as a freelance writer and has published books on grammar and Cambridge exam preparation. She also works as a writer and examiner for Cambridge ESOL on many different papers. When she's not working, Helen's interests include playing tennis, skiing, being by the sea and food – cooking it and eating it.

Helen Sandiford

Helen Sandiford has extensive experience as an English teacher, teacher-trainer, and sales and marketing specialist. She spent nine years in Japan setting up English programs and teaching in Japanese senior high schools and vocational colleges. She has conducted training seminars for English teachers throughout East Asia.

Herbert Puchta

Dr Herbert Puchta is a full time writer of course books and other ELT materials and a professional teacher trainer. He has been a plenary speaker at various international conferences and has given seminars in many countries in South America and Europe. Herbert is a master practitioner in neurolinguistic programming. For almost two decades, he has researched the practical application of cognitive psychology in EFL-teaching. Herbert has co-authored numerous textbooks and resource books including Multiple Intelligences in EFL, Teaching Grammar Creatively, Imagine That!, (Cambridge-Helbling) Playway to English (Cambridge-Helbling), Join In/Join Us (Cambridge-ELI), MORE! (Cambridge-Helbling), new MORE! (Cambridge-Helbling), English in Mind (Cambridge) Mind your English (Cambridge) Into English (Cambridge) and Focus - Into English (Cambridge).

Hilary Nesi

Hilary Nesi is Professor in English Language and has published extensively on corpus development and analysis, the design and use of reference tools in academic contexts and the teaching and learning of English for academic purposes.

Ingrid Wisniewska

Ingrid Wisniewska holds a degree in Modern Languages and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MA in English Language Teaching from the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has taught EFL and trained teachers in Japan, the Czech Republic, Poland, the UK and the USA. She gained her PhD in Language Teacher Education from Southampton University. She is the author of many books for students and teachers of English as a second or foreign language. She works as a freelance writer and author of ELT materials and lives in Newport, Rhode Island with her husband Greg and her cat Tippy.  

Jack C. Richards

Professor Jack C. Richards is an internationally recognized authority on English-language acquisition, teacher training, and materials design. A well-known lecturer and consultant, he has taught at universities in the United States, China, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, Indonesia, and Brazil. Professor Richards' many successful publications include the Interchange series, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, and Curriculum Development in Language Teaching.

James Dean Brown

James Dean Brown is currently Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His academic background comprises ESL teaching and applied linguistics, as well as modern languages and literature. He is a specialist in language testing, curriculum design, program evaluation, and research methods and has published widely in all of these areas. He has served on a number of editorial boards, including TESOL Quarterly, JALT Journal, Language Testing, and Language Learning and Technology. His research and teaching have taken him to numerous countries, including Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the People’s Republic of China.

James Milton

James Milton is the Senior Academic in the School of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. He formerly established and ran the Centre for Applied Language Studies and the Applied Linguistics Department at Swansea. He has held posts in Nigeria and Libya and carried out consultancy and materials development projects internationally.

Jan Bell

Jan Bell worked as a teacher and a teacher trainer with the British Council, Italy, and the Bell School, Saffron Walden for fifteen years. She has written a variety of material, from listening skills and integrated skills books, to adult coursebooks and Cambridge exam material.

Jane Lockwood

PhD in workplace English curriculum development and evaluation processes from Hong Kong University. Jane Lockwood is the head of the English Language Centre at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, having previously headed the Centre for Professional and Business English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since 2002, Jane has been applying academic principles to improve performance in BPO communication through consulting, training and assessment services throughout Asia.

Jane Rollason

Jane Rollason always wanted to write but didn't have the confidence to start when she was younger. She studied history at university and read lots of newspapers – the best hunting grounds for a writer. Years in publishing kept her close to books, before someone asked her to write one herself. She has written fiction and biography, and adapted many classic and contemporary stories for EFL learners. Cambridge University Press publications Killer Bees (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Tales of Terror (Cambridge Discovery Readers)    

Janet McGiffin

Janet McGiffin lives in Athens, Greece. She writes mystery novels, travel articles and grant proposals for small non-profit organizations (NGO) based around the Mediterranean. Currently she is public-education publicist for a 12-country European Union cultural grant involving conservation of ancient artifacts made of gold, silver, or copper. Cambridge University Press publications Emergency Murder (Cambridge English Readers) Murder by Art (Cambridge English Readers)

Jania Barrell

Cambridge University Press publications Jania Barrell has worked in English language teaching for over 30 years. After studying literature at Essex University, she began teaching English in Cambridge, where she got her Diploma in TEFL. She then worked for the British Council in Milan, Rome and Kuala Lumpur, before returning to the UK and working at the Bell Language School in London. Here she worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and Courses Coordinator before becoming a free-lance teacher and examiner for Trinity College London. Jania lives in Cheam, which is just south of London. She is interested in politics and gardening and loves reading, especially detective stories. She has just finished working on a translation of a book about a Tibetan line of teachers. But Was it Murder? (Cambridge English Readers)

Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Jeanine Treffers-Daller is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her two main research areas are bilingualism and language contact (particularly code-switching, borrowing and contact-induced language change), and vocabulary richness.

Jeanne McCarten

Jeanne McCarten has taught in Sweden, France, Malaysia, and the U.K., and has many years of experience publishing

Jeff Stranks

Jeff Stranks (BA, M.Phil. Linguistics) was Senior Tutor in ELT at Bell College Saffron Walden from 1981 to 1991, and then worked as an Academic Coordinator with Cultura Inglesa (Rio de Janeiro) between 1991 and 2001. He is an external assessor for the UCLES DELTA, and a moderator for the UCLES COTE scheme. He is currently freelance, producing materials and doing occasional teaching at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Publications: The New You & Me Grammar Practice (Langenscheidt-Longman, Germany, 2000), The New You & Me Grammar Practice 3 (Langenscheidt-Longman, Germany, 2001) - co-authored with Colin Paton, The New You & Me Grammar Practice 4 (Langenscheidt-Longman, Germany, 2001), Step Ahead, Books 1, 2 and 3 (ELI, Italy, 2003) - co-authored with Herbert Puchta, Richard Carter and Peter Lewis-Jones; English in Mind Italian edition, Mind your English, Into English and Focus - Into English co-authored with Herbert Puchta.

Jeremy Day

Jeremy Day was a teacher for 14 years before becoming a full-time writer and editor. He is the Series Editor of the Cambridge English for … series of short ESP (English for Specific Purposes) courses, with titles on Nursing, the Media, Engineering, Job-hunting, Marketing, Human Resources and Science. Jeremy has two blogs: Specific English, for ESP teachers and course designers; and Grrrammar for English teachers and learners who love grammar. He currently works for English360.com, a blended learning platform for ESP and business English. He lives in Warsaw, Poland, with his wife and two children.

Jeremy Harmer

Jeremy Harmer is currently a course tutor and designer for the online MATESOL at the New School, New York, but he has taught extensively in both the UK and in Mexico, where he worked for many years. As both a coursebook writer and the author of key titles on EFL teaching methodology, Jeremy is a frequently invited speaker at conferences and seminars all over the world. When not teaching, writing or travelling, his interests include listening to and playing music (he plays piano, guitar and viola with more passion, perhaps, than skill), and this obsession with music is reflected in his two readers for Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press publications The Double Bass Mystery (Cambridge English Readers) Trumpet Voluntary (Cambridge English Readers)

Jim Scrivener

Jim Scrivener is currently Head of Teacher Development for Bell International, based in Kent.

Jo Smith

Jo is a freelance materials writer, teacher trainer and author with over thirty years’ experience in English Language Teaching. She is the author of ESOL Activities Entry 3, with Citizenship (2008) and Exploring British Culture (2012).

Joanna Budden

Joanna Budden has worked for the British Council in Barcelona since 1999 teaching young learners, as well as being part-time co-ordinator for their learner website, LearnEnglish Kids. She has previously taught in Brazil, Hong Kong and Egypt before settling permanently in north-east Spain. She has written supplementary material for English in Mind, including teacher resource packs and DVD activity booklets. She is also the author of Teen World, a Cambridge University Press photocopiable resource book of communication activities for teenagers. She has also written online material, including lesson plans, articles, worksheets and podcasts for OneStopEnglish, Teaching English and the British Council's Language Assistant website.

Joanna Kosta

Joanna has taught English in both Europe and Asia. She is also a materials writer and is co-author of KET Direct and PET Direct, Cambridge Vocabulary for PET and a number of other publications including workbooks and practice tests.

Johanna Stirling

Johanna Stirling is a freelance English Language Teaching Consultant based in the UK.

John Corbett

John has been in ELT for around 25 years, as a teacher, teacher trainer and educational consultant. His main interests are intercultural language education, corpus-based language studies, and the history and development of the Scots dialect.

John Crowther-Alwyn

John Crowther-Alwyn has over thirty years' experience of ELT in Sénégal, the UK and France. For ten years he was Director of Studies at ESSEC, France's leading business school. He then ran his own language school from 1992–99. At present he teaches at the IUT, part of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise.  

John Field

John Field teaches psycholinguistics, child language and English grammar at the University of Reading, and he is also attached to the School of Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder of the BAAL Psycholinguistics Group, a member of the Advisory Board of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and a member of BAAL Executive Committee. He has taught at a number of UK universities and lectures widely on L2 listening and on the implications of psycholinguistics in second language acquisition. He has worked as a teacher trainer, materials writer and syllabus designer in many parts of the world and is the author of Listening in the Language Classroom, which won the 2008 Ben Warren International House Trust Prize.

Jolene Gear

Jolene and Robert Gear have worked as teachers of English to nonnative speakers since the mid 1970s. They taught in Japan and Mexico before studying for MA degrees at the University of Northern Iowa and undertaking further studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Since then, they have held positions at colleges and universities in Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Finland, and Oman.

Jonathan Hull

Jonathan Hull has taught in Britain, Jordan, Oman, China, Japan, the United States, and Micronesia. He is currently teaching in Thailand. His professional interests include curriculum design, materials development, and the use of introspective methodology in applied linguistics.

Judith Wilson

Judith Wilson worked overseas teaching English in France, Zambia and Saudi Arabia for 15 years before returning to England to live in Cambridge. From 1987 to 2003 she worked as a teacher and teacher trainer near Cambridge, and she is now a freelance writer and exams consultant. Cambridge University Press publications Staying Together (Cambridge English Readers)

Judy Gilbert

Judy B. Gilbert is an internationally respected authority on teaching English pronunciation. A teacher and teacher trainer, Ms. Gilbert has traveled widely, presenting workshops and lectures. In addition, she has chaired seminars and colloquia around the world. A founding member of the TESOL Speech Pronunciation Interest Section, Ms. Gilbert is also a distinguished member of the IATEFL Pronunciation Interest Group. She is the author of Clear Speech Third Edition, and Clear Speech from the Start, as well as co-author of Speaking Clearly—all published by Cambridge University Press.

Julia Newsome

Julia Newsome is now a writer. After taking a BA in Drama at Manchester University, Julia taught EFL in Athens for 22 years. She wrote and commissioned teaching materials for local schools and later joined Heinemann as a commissioning editor. She took the RSA TEFLA at the British Council there. Since leaving Greece in 1995 she has been a freelance translator, editor, publisher and materials writer for Penguin and Longman among others, and has continued examining and teaching EFL. She has lived and worked in Belgium, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe, and now concentrates on writing fiction and scripts. Her other interests include travel, exploring Cumbria (where she now lives) and rural Greece, and volunteering at Shakespeare's Globe. Cambridge University Press publications Nelson's Dream (Cambridge English Readers) Dragons' Eggs (Cambridge English Readers)

Julia Starr Keddle

Julia Starr Keddle is a writer of ELT course books and materials, co-writing with her husband Martyn Hobbs. She has been involved in ELT for around 30 years, abroad and in the UK in a variety of contexts, from young learner to adult. She lived and worked in Italy for 10 years, teaching English at the University of Florence. She also regularly taught international classes in the UK. She worked as an editor in ELT publishing and as a teacher trainer for NILE, Norwich before starting her writing career 10 years ago. Julia is especially interested in teen development, interactional language and personal and soft skills. She is a specialist in the Common European Framework on which she has written articles, including The CEF and the secondary school syllabus for the publication Insights from the Common European Framework (OUP). Julia finds that planning a course is a very creative process, and enjoys interweaving grammar, communicative and lexical syllabus strands, among others, with age-appropriate topics and activities. Writing is fun, but a successful course is built on creative planning.

Julie Moore

Julie Moore has been involved in ELT for over 12 years, working first as a teacher in Greece and the Czech Republic before returning to the UK to complete an MA at the University of Birmingham. In recent years, she has worked as a lexicographer on a number of learner's dictionaries and has been involved in research, editing and writing on a range of ELT projects, particularly in the areas of vocabulary and learner errors. Julie currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

K. Lynn Savage

Series editor K. Lynn Savage, City College of San Francisco (retired), trains teachers for adult education programs around the country. She chaired the committee that developed the ESL Model Standards for Adult Education Programs (California 1992) and is the author, co-author and editor of many ESL materials including Parenting for Academic Success: A Curriculum for Families Learning English, Crossroads Cafe, Building Life Skills, May I Help You?, Picture Stories, and English That Works.

Karen Saxby

Karen Saxby has produced a wealth of material for younger learners of English, with recent published works including the ‘Fun For’ series for Starters, Movers and Flyers, the ‘Story Fun’ series and ‘KET for Schools Trainer’, all written for Cambridge University Press.

Kate Woodford

Katharine Scott

Katharine Scott is a writer of best selling English language textbooks. She has been developing educational materials with her co-author, Susan House, for the last fifteen years. She also works as a teacher trainer and has taken part in seminars, workshops and training sessions throughout Latin America, Turkey, Eastern Europe, as well as in Spain, where she is based. Katharine has so far co-authored The English Ladder (Cambridge University Press and SELT) along with a variety of course books for Macmillan and Richmond Publishing. As an essay writer, Katharine has also contributed to academic publications on classroom practice. Her special areas of interest include: Working with an integrated curriculum (CLIL); Story-based teaching for young learners; Developing literacy skills to develop competent readers and writers; Working with phonics.

Kathryn O’Dell

Kay Bentley

Kay Bentley has been a teacher and teacher trainer in bilingual / CLIL programmes since 1997. Her first bilingual teaching was in The Netherlands where she worked in bilingual secondary schools and also taught EAL primary learners in The British School of The Netherlands. In 2005 she returned to Norwich and became involved in the Madrid Comunidad primary bilingual programme and the Catalan secondary and primary programmes at Norwich Institute for Language Education. She is also a tutor on NILE’s MA CLIL module. She is a member of the TKT: CLIL writing team for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations who produce TKT: CLIL tests for teachers. Kay reviews CLIL materials for Cambridge University Press and Cambridge International Examinations and is author of Primary Curriculum Box and The TKT Course CLIL Module. She is trustee of a refugee project in Norwich where she can put CLIL into practice.

Laura Matthews

Laura is a teacher, teacher trainer and educational manager who has spent many years preparing students for a range of examinations. Laura has co-authored Cambridge Vocabulary for First Certificate and Complete CAE workbook with Barbara Thomas.

Leo Jones

Leo Jones lives and works in Bournemouth in the UK, where he taught for many years in a language school. He is a freelance writer and teacher-trainer and has done workshops for teachers in many countries. Among his best-known books, all published by Cambridge University Press, are: Functions of English, Ideas, Great Ideas, New International Business English, New Progress to First Certificate, Let's Talk 1–3, Welcome!, New Cambridge Advanced English, New Progress to Proficiency, Working in English, and Making Progress to First Certificate.

Leslie Anne Hendra

Leslie's first job as an English teacher was in Tokyo, Japan - a job that lasted 15 years. She later moved to the UK to study for her teaching diploma (DELTA) in London and joined the staff at International House as a full-time teacher and, later on, a CELTA trainer. After four years, she started writing full-time as co-author of English Unlimited. She is particularly interested in intercultural awareness, speaking strategies and task-based learning.

Lindsay Clandfield

Liz Dale

Liz Dale is a language teacher educator at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences, School of Education. She specialises in CLIL, preparing groups of subject and language teachers for teaching in CLIL schools.

Liz Driscoll

Liz has been involved in EFL for 30 years. Liz is RSA qualified and also has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in France, Spain, Hong Kong and Brazil. She is the editor of Essential Grammar in Use and English Grammar in Use, as well as several other books. Liz has written: Reading Extra, one of a series of photocopiable resource book of multi-level skills activities; two books in the Vocabulary in Practice series; two books in the Common Mistakes series, Common Mistakes at PET and Common Mistakes at KET; and all four of the Real Reading books in the new Cambridge English Skills series.

Liz Walter

Liz Walter is based in Cambridge, UK, where she runs a small lexicography and language company. For many years, she was senior commissioning editor for Cambridge Dictionaries. Liz is the author of Collocations Extra.

Louise Clover

Having cut her teeth as a researcher in BBC Radio and then on ITV's 'This Is Your Life', Louise Clover went on to become a multi-award winning television producer primarily of light entertainment and children's programmes. She was then appointed to make an array of educational programmes for Channel 4 using the genre of popular culture to appeal to students, i.e., game shows, animation, puppets and situation comedies. Most recently she wrote and directed 'Extra'; a series of sit coms for modern language learning in French, German and Spanish before going on to make an ELT version in Italy. 'Extra' received an RTS and a Basel Karlsruhe Award as well as a BAFTA nomination. She has written for Cambridge's face2face series and is now concentrating on writing novels. She lives in Hove with her husband and two children. Cambridge University Press publications Bullring Kid and Country Cowboy (Cambridge Discovery Readers)  

Mandy Loader

Mandy Loader went to Paris to teach EFL soon after getting her first degree in English. Two years later she travelled across Siberia to Tokyo, where she taught for two years – and met her future husband. She then taught in Morocco for several years, during which time she did a lot of windsurfing, got an MA in Applied Linguistics and had her first child. Back in the UK, she settled down to raising her brood and freelance writing. She has written numerous language books and courses, but particularly enjoys writing readers. In a dull moment between projects, she qualified in Basic Skills and has taught ESOL and Adult Literacy in the UK, as well as providing training in the government-funded Skills for Life initiative. In her free time Mandy loves sailing, gardening and travelling, preferably somewhere warm. Cambridge University Press publications Eye of the Storm (Cambridge English Readers) Amazing Young Sports People (Cambridge Discovery Readers)

Margaret Johnson

Margaret is a writer, artist and teacher who lives in Norwich, Norfolk with her partner and their young son. She is a graduate of the renowned Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and has written plays, screenplays and children's fiction as well as six Cambridge English Readers. Whatever she writes, Margaret likes to try to include some humour and says, 'the biggest thrill of all is making people laugh.' Cambridge University Press publications All I Want (Cambridge English Readers) Different Worlds (Cambridge English Readers) Jungle Love (Cambridge English Readers) Murder Maker (Cambridge English Readers) Next Door to Love (Cambridge English Readers) Wild Country (Cambridge English Readers) Gone (Cambridge Discovery Readers) New Zealand (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Running Wild (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Big Hair Day (Cambridge English Readers) Quick Change! (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Parties and Presents (Cambridge Discovery Readers)

Maria Lucia Zaorob

With a BS in Psychology from PUC-SP, Maria Lucia began her teaching career at CEL-LEP, a highly respected language institute in Brazil. She later joined their pedagogical team to develop courses and write materials. She is a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer with over 20 years of experience, having worked in a variety of pedagogical settings. Her special interests lie in learning theories, classroom dynamics, and motivation.

Marie McCullagh

Marie McCullagh is a senior lecturer in ESP at the School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She is co-author of Cambridge University Press' Good Practice: Communication Skills in English for the Medical Practitioner (2008).

Marjorie Rosenberg

Marjorie Rosenberg teaches English and methodology at the Berufspaedagogische Akademie and the Paedagogische Akademie in Graz, Austria. She is an active teacher trainer and holds seminars on NLP, cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, American English and Business English in a variety of settings throughout Europe. Marjorie has held presentations at over 20 international conferences and has written a number of articles for journals such as The Teacher Trainer, English Teaching Professional and The English Language Teaching News.

Mark Hancock

Mark is a freelance EFL teacher and materials writer based in Madrid and has been involved in TEFL for over 20 years in Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and Spain. He holds an MSc in Teaching English from Aston University. He has written Pronunciation Games (1995), Singing Grammar (1998), English Pronunciation in Use (2003).

Mark Ibbotson

Mark is the author of Cambridge English for Engineering, Professional English In Use – Engineering, and co-author of the Business Start-up series.

Mark Lloyd

Mark is a freelance materials writer and, since March 2010, Principal of Kaplan International College Bath, where he previously spent seven years as Director of Studies. Prior to returning to the UK he worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and academic manager in Madrid between 1993 and 2003, during which time he spent most summers teaching teenagers on UK residential summer courses. He has written and contributed to a number of course books and resource books for both teenagers and adults, and has presented talks and workshops at conferences, language schools and universities in the UK, Spain and Poland.

Mark O'Neil

Mark O'Neil has been teaching Business English in Japan since 1988. He has extensive experience in teacher education and management and also holds Master's degrees in TESP and in Contemporary Japanese Studies.

Mark Powell

Mark Powell is a business communication skills trainer, one-to-one coach and instructional designer. A leader in the field of presentations training, in his 25-year career he has worked with many well-known international companies. Mark currently runs courses and gives keynote conference presentations all over the world.

Martin Hewings

Martin has taught English for over 30 years in many countries, including Sweden, Italy, Malaysia and Australia. From 1985 to 2009 he taught English for Academic Purposes at the University of Birmingham and since then has been a freelance author and consultant. He was co-editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes from 2001 to 2006 and has published a number of textbooks with Cambridge University Press including Advanced Grammar in Use, English Pronunciation in Use Advanced, Pronunciation Practice Activities, Cambridge Grammar for CAE and Proficiency and is co-author of Cambridge Academic English.

Martin Lisboa

Martin’s interests span EAP, Business ELT, Business Studies and doing Business. He has an MBA from the OU Business School and has worked in Mexico, the UK and Italy. He presently teaches Business English at Fondazione Campus/University of Pisa in Italy and previous to that set up his own language school in London.

Martin Parrott

Martin Parrott worked for many years as a teacher and teacher trainer at International House, London, where he was also the Director of Teacher Training. In addition to Grammar for English Language Teachers, he is the author of Tasks for Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and wrote and produced Teaching Matters, a series of 14 radio programmes for BBC English (BBC World Service, 1994). He has taught and trained teachers in many parts of the world and in the Universities of London and Bristol. He currently teaches at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, London, UK.

Martyn Hobbs

Martyn Hobbs is a writer of ELT course books, co-writing with his wife Julia Starr Keddle. He also writes readers and develops videos. He has been involved in ELT for around 30 years teaching in Italy and the UK in a variety of contexts, from young learner to adult. He lived and taught in Italy for 10 years, both for the University of Florence and private language schools. He also regularly taught international classes in the UK. He worked as a commissioning script editor in ELT publishing before starting his ELT writing career 10 years ago. Martyn has also written the scripts for many ELT videos, for his own and other courses. He has a particular interest in stories in all their forms – from short stories and novels to scripts for the theatre and cinema, and has written a series of readers for Helbling Languages. He is also a prize-winning playwright and film screenplay writer.

Mary Spratt

Mary has taught EFL in Cyprus, Algeria, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Hong Kong. She also has extensive experience in teacher training, teacher development and assessment. She worked at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate for 5 years on the production of exams, including IELTS and the revision of FCE. She has written EFL course books and supplementary materials and is currently working freelance as an ELT writer and consultant.

Matt Firth

Matt Firth is a founder member of the European Legal English Teachers’ Association (EULETA) and teaches Legal English. He has authored and co-authored a number of titles on Legal and Academic English.

Matt Wicks

Matt Wicks has worked as a TEFL teacher in Lisbon, Istanbul, Cambridge, Oxford and Bath. He has held various positions of responsibility including Senior Tutor (Young Learners) at The Bell Centre, Director of Studies at LSI, Cambridge and Assistant Director of Studies at Shane English School, Oxford. He has given papers at a several conferences, including the APPI Conference in 1997, and IATEFL Dublin 2000. He has also led a number of teacher training workshops.

Mauricio Shiroma

Melanie Williams

Melanie Williams specialises in the field of young learners and has worked in Malaysia, China, Bahrain, Mexico and the UK as a teacher and teacher trainer. She is a seminar presenter for Cambridge ESOL, has been closely involved in the development of CELTYL and ICELT, and is currently joint Chief Assessor for Young Learners and a Chief Moderator for ICELT. She has acted as a consultant for and authored a number of materials writing projects, including the writing of distance learning materials for teachers and the authoring of primary course books. She has recently completed two primary syllabus development consultancies.

Michael Austen

Michael Austen has spent most of his career in ELT, as a teacher, teacher-trainer and school manager. After teaching in Senegal, West Africa, Finland and Portugal, he spent a long period working for the Bell Language School in Norwich, where he lives. He now combines teaching with exam-writing and assessing. He is employed part-time by INTO UEA and also works as an examiner for IELTS, Skills for Life, and IBO. He is an exam-writer with Cambridge ESOL. Michael has also been a keen writer for most of his life and is a published fiction author. Cambridge University Press publications Berlin Express (Cambridge English Readers) 

Michael H. Daller

Michael H Daller is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is an associate editor of The Linguistics Journal and the Journal of English as an International Language, and a reviewer for several other journals in the fields of Applied Linguistics and language testing.

Michael Handford

Michael Handford is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Tokyo, where he lectures on and teaches business English, institutional discourse, intercultural communication, discourse analysis and pragmatics. His areas of interest are business discourse, discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre, English as an international business language, and intercultural communication. He also works as a business communication consultant in Japan. He has published in the areas of corpus linguistics, professional discourse and English language teaching, and regularly attends and presents at international conferences.

Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. Well known as an expert on the teaching and learning of grammar and vocabulary, he is a co-author of Cambridge Grammar of English and the elementary, upper-intermediate and advanced levels of English Vocabulary in Use. He is also the author of many titles of interest to teachers, including From Corpus to Classroom and Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics.

Michael Swan

Michael Swan is a full-time writer specialising in English Language teaching and reference materials. He is co-author of The New Cambridge English Course, Learner English and Effective Reading, and has extensive teaching experience with adult learners.

Michael Tomlinson

Michael Tomlinson has been teaching English since 1989. He has worked in the UK, Turkey, Spain and Sweden, with students ranging from children to adult, beginner to proficiency level. He is currently teacher of EFL and Director of Studies at Star English, Murcia, Spain. He is co-author of Primary Activity Box, Primary Vocabulary Box, Primary Grammar Box, Primary Pronunciation Box, Primary Communication Box and Primary Reading Box for Cambridge University Press. He has also given teacher-training talks and presentations internationally.

Mick Gammidge

Mick Gammidge has taught in Greece and the UK, has trained teachers for the RSA Diploma, and was a senior teacher at the school of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is also a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Kings College, London.

Miles Craven

Miles has worked in English language education since 1988, teaching in schools, colleges and universities around the world. He has a wide range of experience as a teacher, teacher-trainer, examiner and materials writer. Miles is author or co-author of several best-selling courses for adults and young adults, including: Get Real!, Reading Keys, English Grammar in Use Extra, Cambridge English Skills, Listening Extra, Quizzes, Questionnaires and Puzzles, Breakthrough Plus and Q. He has written many articles and online materials, and regularly presents at conferences and workshops.

Nicholas Murgatroyd

Nicholas Murgatroyd has taught English in the Czech Republic, Spain and Mexico. After working as an editor at Cambridge University Press, he completed an MA in Novel Writing at the University of Manchester, where he is now studying for a PhD in Creative Writing. His fiction has appeared in Transmission and Penumbra magazines and been published by Arehouse Press. Nicholas also teaches part-time at the University of Bradford, and has written several resource books for Cambridge. When he's not busy with all of this, he enjoys playing squash and football, and regularly loses his voice when watching Bradford City play football. Cambridge University Press publications Robinson Crusoe (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Pairwork and Groupwork (Cambridge Copy Collection)  

Nicholas Tims

Nicholas Tims began his ELT career teaching in Lisbon, Portugal, in the days when Microsoft Word took a full three minutes to load. Undeterred and working for a schools which eschewed the use of course books, he set about writing materials appropriate for his students. Returning to the UK in the mid 1990s, he undertook a Cambridge DELTA and a Masters in ELT. Through publishing positions at Cambridge University Press, where he commissioned and worked on secondary and adult courses and the Cambridge English Readers series, he eventually defined his dream job: writing ELT materials. As a freelance author, he has now written over 20 titles for primary, secondary and adult learners in Europe, South America and Africa. He is also the Series Editor for the Cambridge Discovery Readers.

Nick Bilbrough

Nick Robinson

Nick Robinson taught English in Spain, specialising in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Business English. He then worked for Cambridge University Press as a Marketing Executive and as an Editor on the ESP list. Before becoming involved in English language teaching, he worked in advertising for a major London newspaper and an international property magazine. In 2007, he moved to York to become a freelance author, editor and trainer. Nick is the author of the Infotech 4th Edition Online Workbook and the English Vocabulary in Use Elementary CD-ROM 2nd Edition. He is the co-author of the face2face Advanced Teacher's Book; the English Unlimited Elementary, Pre-intermediate and Intermediate Self-study Packs; and Let's Talk Online, an online speaking and listening course. Since November 2009 he has been a Brand Manager at Cambridge University Press.

Noel Goodey

Noel Goodey has been working in ELT for more than twenty-five years. He has written a variety of teaching materials, including the very successful 'Imagine you're English' (written with Diana Goodey), a secondary school course published in France, Italy and Holland, and three grammar practice books for elementary and intermediate students in Europe and Latin America. More recently, he has written a set of English language revision books ('Trouble with…?' series), covering common and recurring grammar problems and based on the 'guided discovery' or inductive approach.

Norman Whitby

Norman is the sole author of Business Benchmark Pre Intermediate to Intermediate (CUP) which was first published in 2006.

Olha Madylus

Olha Madylus began her teaching career as a secondary state school in the UK teaching English and Drama. She has been involved in YLELT for over 20 years, living, teaching and training in the UK, Hong Kong, Venezuela and Greece. For the past four years she has been a freelance YL consultant and teacher trainer and is involved in the training of local state school teachers in countries as diverse as Peru, Qatar and Taiwan. She also does consultation and teacher training for the British Council global teaching network. In addition to all this she is a Cambridge ESOL CELTA and CELTYL trainer. Olha is interested in the whole range of Young Learners from the age of 5 to 18, as well as all learners who are young at heart. She is particularly concerned with the role of motivation and challenge in learning. She maintains an academic interest in YL Teaching through continuing participation at international conferences, delivering presentations at TesolArabia (Dubai), March 2003, MexTesol (Mexico), October 2003 and MATE (Moroccan Association of Teachers of English) April, 2004, IATEFL UK April 2005 and TESOL MacedoniaThrace (Greece), November 2005. Olha contributes to publications such as English Teaching Professional and CATS, the IATEFL YL SIG newsletter. She also works with Cambridge ESOL producing seminar materials on the YLE Tests and giving presentations worldwide for teachers and parents.

Patricia Aspinall

Patricia Aspinall has a first degree in Education and an M.Phil in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. After teaching English as a Foreign Language in schools and Colleges of Further Education, she joined UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) where she was responsible for running and developing EFL examinations including PET, FCE, CAE, and CPE. She is now a freelance author and language consultant and has written numerous books and other materials on language development. She specialises in books that prepare students for examinations such as the Certificate in Advanced English and the Business English Certificates. Cambridge University Press publications The House by the Sea (Cambridge English Readers)

Paul Emmerson

Paul Emmerson works as a writer, teacher and teacher trainer. He is the author of Five Minute Activities for Business English and Business English Frameworks. He teaches at the International House Executive Centre, London, and has worked as a teacher trainer all over Europe. He is a regular presenter at international conferences, giving talks on teaching methodology for Business English.  

Paul Nation

Paul Nation is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where he teaches courses in pedagogical grammar, curriculum design and teaching and learning vocabulary. He also supervises MA and PhD research on vocabulary. Current topics being supervised include a corpus study of idioms, vocabulary growth in an English Proficiency programme, development of a vocabulary size test, the nature of academic vocabulary, and learning vocabulary through listening and discussion. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and Japan. His publications include articles and books on teaching and learning vocabulary, language teaching methodology, and curriculum design. In addition he has written several booklets to be used in the courses he teaches, and has developed a substantial data base of publications on vocabulary which are classified into a wide range of categories. His forthcoming articles deal with vocabulary density and reading, language curriculum design, vocabulary and graded readers, and equivalent forms of a dictation test of vocabulary. To find out more about Paul Nation's other publications visit the Victoria University of Wellington website.  

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Penny Hancock

Penny Hancock has English teaching experience in Italy, Greece, Morocco and the UK. She also teaches in Primary schools and has run courses in creative writing for adults. Her readers for Cambridge University Press address issues such as adoption, bereavement and prejudice within the romantic genre. Within High Fences was a finalist for the Extensive Reading Foundation award. Penny lives and works in Cambridge and has three children. Cambridge University Press publications Just Good Friends (Cambridge English Readers) A Love for Life (Cambridge English Readers) Within High Fences (Cambridge English Readers) Love in the Lakes (Cambridge English Readers)

Penny Ur

Penny was educated at the universities of Oxford (MA), Cambridge (PGCE) and Reading (MA). She emigrated to Israel in 1967, where she still lives today. Penny has thirty years’ experience as an English teacher in elementary, middle and high schools in Israel. Now retired, she has taught M.A. courses at Oranim Academic College of Education and Haifa University. Penny has presented papers at TESOL, IATEFL and various other English teachers’ conferences worldwide. She has published a number of articles, and was for ten years the editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series. Her books include Discussions that Work (1981), Five Minute Activities (co authored with Andrew Wright) (1992), A Course in Language Teaching (1996), and Grammar Practice Activities (2nd Edition) (2009), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Peter Chin

Ed.M. M.A., Teachers College, Columbia UniversityPeter Chin is currently a teacher and program supervisor in EAP development, teaching, and administration at Waseda University International in Tokyo. His interests include curriculum and materials design as well as the use of multi-media resources to aid student learning. He has designed a variety of courses employing video and the Internet to supplement lessons.

Peter Lewis-Jones

Peter Lewis-Jones is a freelance author who has been involved in EFL since 1993. After stints abroad teaching in Italy, Egypt, Indonesia and Brazil, he returned to the UK in 2006 to concentrate on writing. He now lives on the North Wales border where he spends his time meeting deadlines and looking after his three young boys. He is co-author on a number of Cambridge EFL titles including English in Mind, MORE! and Super Minds.

Peter Lucantoni

Already a successful Press author in the field of English language learning for the CIE examinations. He also hosts popular workshops on E2L.  

Peter May

Peter May has over 25 years’ experience of preparing students for Cambridge examinations in several countries.

Peter Roach

Peter Roach did his first degree at Oxford (Brasenose College) in Psychology and Philosophy, and then took postgraduate courses in Teaching English Overseas (Manchester University) and in Phonetics (University College London). He was appointed to the Linguistic Science Department of the University of Reading as a lecturer in 1968, teaching phonetics there until 1978, and gaining his PhD. Peter then moved to the University of Leeds to become Senior Lecturer in Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics & Phonetics; then to the Department of Psychology at Leeds where he was was appointed Professor of Cognitive Psychology. He returned to Reading University in 1994 as Professor of Phonetics. His main interest is in the phonetics of English, where his Cambridge University Press publications include English Phonetics and Phonology and The English Pronouncing Dictionary, (17th Edition). Peter also has research interests in speech perception and in the computer analysis of speech, and has held a number of research grants for work in automatic speech recognition and in large-scale computer-readable speech databases. On his retirement in September 2003, the University of Reading awarded Peter the position of Emeritus Professor of Phonetics.

Peter Watkins

Peter has been involved in teacher education for many years, including both pre-service and in-service programmes. His publications include Cambridge English Teacher: Vocabulary and Pronunciation, The CELTA Course Trainee Book and The CELTA Course Trainer’s Manual.

Philip Hood

Philip Hood works in the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities in the School of Education, University of Nottingham. He is Course Director of the National SCITT in Outstanding Primary Schools (a School-based Initial Teacher Training course, hosted by the University). In the field of primary education he is best known as a researcher and curriculum developer in the curriculum area of Modern Languages. He has extensive experience of training teachers who are preparing to teach CLIL modules and is co-author of the 2010 publication CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning along with Do Coyle and David Marsh (Cambridge University Press).  

Philip Kerr

Philip Prowse

Philip's interest in reading began in Egypt in the early 1970s when as a British Council Officer he developed materials to support class readers. His British Council career also took him to Portugal, Greece and Poland. Returning to the UK at the start of the 1980s he became Principal of a large residential language school and teacher training college in the UK, leaving in the early 1990s to become a freelance trainer and materials writer. Throughout his career he has written teaching materials including major primary, secondary and adult courses, as well as a number of highly-successful readers. He has run training courses and spoken at conferences in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. Philip is the series editor for Cambridge English Readers. He is also Reviews Editor of the English Language Teaching Journal. Cambridge University Press publications Activate your English (with Barbara Sinclair) Don't Stop Now! (Cambridge English Readers) Double Cross (Cambridge English Readers) Help! (Cambridge English Readers) Why? (Cambridge English Readers)

Philip Shawcross

Philip Shawcross has been working in Aviation English since 1972, as a language trainer, technical trainer and technical English consultant for Airbus,Aerospatiale, Air France, and others. He is the creator of docWise, a CD-ROM training programme for using aircraft maintenance documentation, and led ateam developing web-based pilot and ATCO language training material for AES. He has been president of ICAEA since 2007. Read an interview with Philip Shawcross about the challenges of teaching and learning English for Aviation.

Rachel Clark

Rachel is a teaching fellow at University College London, where she has worked for nearly 4 years. She has co-authored a title for the Grammar for Business series and two teachers’ books for face2face

Raymond Murphy

Raymond Murphy's legendary titles are known and loved the world over, and have given literally millions of students the tools they need to tackle English grammar head-on. Raymond taught English as a foreign language for 17 years in Germany and the UK, but since 1988 has been a full-time writer of ELT materials. He is the author of the following best-selling Cambridge titles:Essential Grammar in Use, English Grammar in Use, Basic Grammar in Use (US English), Grammar in Use (US English)

Richard MacAndrew

Richard MacAndrew has worked in ELT for over 35 years. He has taught in Finland, Sweden, Malaysia and Great Britain. He has been a freelance writer since 1996, writing a number of readers for the Cambridge English Readers series, as well as a variety of books for other British and American EFL publishers. His interests, other than writing, include walking in the Yorkshire Dales, listening to the music of Jerry Garcia, reading numerous detective stories and thrillers, and watching Scotland play rugby – preferably in his favourite city, Edinburgh. Cambridge University Press publications A Death in Oxford (Cambridge English Readers) A Puzzle for Logan (Cambridge English Readers) Blood Diamonds (Cambridge English Readers) Inspector Logan (Cambridge English Readers) Logan's Choice (Cambridge English Readers) Strong Medicine (Cambridge English Readers) The Lahti File (Cambridge English Readers) The Penang File (Cambridge English Readers) The University Murders (Cambridge English Readers) The Black Pearls (Cambridge English Readers) A Little Trouble in Amsterdam (Cambridge Discovery Readers) A Little Trouble in the Yorkshire Dales (Cambridge Discovery Readers) Scotland (Cambridge Discovery Readers) The New Zealand File (Cambridge English Readers) Not Above the Law (Cambridge English Readers)

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Rod Neilsen

Rod Neilsen started teaching English as a foreign language in Brighton, England in the early 80s, and continued teaching in Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Brunei. He settled in Brisbane, Australia in 1995, where he taught and trained teachers before beginning a Ph.D which investigated EFL teachers experiences in non-English speaking cultures. Now he lectures in language studies at Queensland University of Technology, but a guitar (or several) is never too far from his side. Cambridge University Press publications The Sugar Glider (Cambridge English Readers)

Roger Gower

Roger Gower has worked as Director of International House, London, Principal of the Bell Language Schools in Cambridge and Norwich, and Operations Director for the Bell Educational Trust. Until recently he was a Governor of the Bell Educational Trust. He is currently Reviews Editor for Modern English Teacher. He has had wide experience in teaching and teacher training in, amongst other places, Italy, Mexico, India, Japan and Portugal. He has also worked as a Chief Moderator for the Institute of Linguists Contemporary Languages Examinations and is a British Council inspector for Accreditation UK. Cambridge University Press publications Real Writing 3 (Cambridge English Skills) Grammar in Practice series  

Ron White

Ron White completed a degree in Anthropology at the University of Auckland, before starting a career in English Language Teaching, which has taken him to Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Japan, as well as the UK, where he has been based since 1971.

Ronald Carter

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. He has published extensively in the fields of language education, applied linguistics and literary-linguistic studies. He is co-author of Cambridge Grammar of English, Exploring Spoken English and Exploring Grammar in Context, and co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages for Cambridge ELT.

Ros Wright

Ros Wright has taught English in France and Japan. She is co-author of Cambridge University Press' Good Practice: Communication Skills in English for the Medical Practitioner (2008).

Rose Senior

Rose Senior is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. She has taught English in Colombia, the UK and Australia. She has published a number of articles in academic journals including ELT Journal and has a regular column in English Teaching Professional. She is the author of the award-winning The Experience of Language Teaching (2006), which describes communicative language teaching from the perspective of EFL, ESL and foreign language teachers.

Rosie Tanner

Rosie Tanner is a consultant and trainer at the IVLOS Institute of Education at the University of Utrecht. Much of her work is with CLIL teachers (language and subject) at Dutch secondary schools.

Sally Logan

Sally Logan has been involved in EFL for over 14 years. She is DELTA qualified and also has a MA (Hons.) in Language Teaching. She has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and independent learning centre manager in many different countries including England, Turkey and New Zealand. She has extensive experience of teaching skills to adults and has a particular interest in speaking skills. She specialises in learner autonomy and helping learners develop independent learning strategies. Sally is author of many papers and presentations on the subject of independent learning. Cambridge University Press publications Real Listening & Speaking 2 (Cambridge English Skills)  

Samantha Lewis

Samantha Lewis has worked in ELT since 1994 as a teacher, teacher trainer, CELTA trainer and materials writer in Spain and the UK. Before Interactive, she co-authored Tactics, a Cambridge University Press coursebook for Spanish upper secondary students. She is currently studying for an MA in English Language Teaching with the University of Alcala, in Spain, and is particularly interested in teaching English to young learners and teenagers, and developing speaking skills in the classroom. She lives in Madrid with her family and enjoys yoga and rollerblading.

Samuel Reid

MA Applied Linguistics, University of BirminghamSamuel Reid has taught in England and Japan. He works at Waseda University International as a materials developer and teacher of academic English. His research interest is critical discourse analysis of expressions of agency.

Samuela Eckstut-Didier

Samuela Eckstut-Didier is an author, educator, and teacher-trainer. She has written numerous textbooks for learners of English as a second or foreign language. She spent ten years in Europe where, in addition to having a Fulbright grant to train teachers in Italy, she taught in both Greece and England. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Center for English Language and Orientation Program (CELOP) at Boston University.

Sarah Scott-Malden

Sarah Scott-Malden studied French and Italian at Bristol University before moving to Italy for three years where she had her first teaching jobs in Pisa and Florence. She took the RSA Diploma in TEFL and then took up a teaching post with the Bell School of Languages, at first in Norwich and then in Saffron Walden. She taught at the Saffron Walden school for eleven years before moving with her family to California. While with the Bell School, Sarah worked as a teacher and a teacher trainer. Cambridge University Press publications A Picture to Remember (Cambridge English Readers)

Scott Thornbury

Scott Thornbury is an established author and series editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers since 2004. He had his first title published in 1997: About Language: Tasks for Teachers of English.

Sean Wray

MA TESOL, Institute of Education, University of LondonA career ELT instructor and trainer, Sean Wray has taught in Canada, the U.S. and Japan. He currently teaches at Waseda University International in Tokyo where he heads the EAP development, teaching, and administration section. His research interests include academic text construction, student error-correction, and instructor error-correction and feedback.

Sharon Goldstein

Sharon Goldstein has co-authored and contributed to many books, including pronunciation, grammar, and reference books. She has taught ESL students and trained prospective teachers in the U.S.

Simon Borg

Simon Borg is Professor of TESOL at the School of Education, University of Leeds. He has been involved in TESOL for 24 years, working as a teacher, teacher educator, lecturer, supervisor, examiner, consultant and researcher in several language teaching contexts around the world.

Simon Haines

Simon has taught EFL at all levels and been involved in EFL teacher training, at both Certificate and Diploma level for over 25 years. He currently teaches part-time at Colchester Institute, a further education college in Essex. Simon has written many EFL coursebooks and supplementary materials, including First Certificate Masterclass and IELTS Masterclass, Real Writing (Level 4), Advanced Skills. Most recently Simon has co-authored Complete CAE.

Simon Sweeney

Simon Sweeney is a Senior Lecturer at York St John University. In 2006 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. Simon formerly taught EFL in Italy and Spain before returning to the UK and specialising in Business English and communication skills. He has also worked as a teacher of Italian and Spanish, a translator and a teacher trainer. He has published numerous books on Business English, management and communication skills. In recent years Simon has taught mainly management and international studies, including International Relations. He is currently Head of Programme for MA International Studies at York St John where he also contributes to the MA in English Language Teaching. He also teaches Education and Development at the University of York. He has a degree in politics and an MA in Linguistics & ELT from the University of York. In his spare time he likes playing football and listening to the music of Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and Radiohead.

Stephen Murrell

Stephen Murrell has been teaching English as a foreign language for over 27 years. He has developed courses for a wide range of ESP areas, including English for railway commuters and recreational English courses for passengers on cruise ships and holiday camps.

Steve Flinders

Steve Flinders is a director of York Associates, which delivers professional language, communication skills, intercultural and management training to private and public sector organisations worldwide. He specialises in designing and delivering courses in management communication and team development for British and non-British managers, and courses for non-UK people working internationally in the fields of HR, employee relations, politics and public administration. He also coaches managers working internationally. He has lived and worked in Pakistan, Sweden, Ireland and France as well as the UK and is the author or co-author of a number of titles for learners of professional English.

Steven Gershon

Steven Gershon received his MA in Applied Linguistics from Reading University (UK) in 1985. He has been teaching in Japan for 18 years and is currently Professor in the department of English Language and Literature at J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. He has also taught in the US, the UK, France, and China. His published coursebooks include Online (Macmillan), Sound Bytes (Longman), English Upgrade (Macmillan), On the Go/On the Move (Longman), and Gear Up (Macmillan).

Steven James Finch

After spending almost a decade working throughout Asia teaching English for Specific Purposes, Steven is now a senior communication training specialist and curriculum developer at FuturePerfect Business English Specialists.

Sue Ireland

Sue is the co-author of Cambridge Vocabulary for PET, KET for Schools Direct, and PET Direct.

Sue Leather

Sue Leather has been in the ELT field for thirty years. Originally from the north west of England, between 1985 and 2000, she worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and educational manager in Spain, UK and the Netherlands. She has an MA in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London. She has written a number of articles for ELT journals and magazines, and is a frequent presenter at international conferences.Sue has been writing original learner fiction since 1990, and is now also an editor. In 2000, she set up her own consultancy group and now works on educational projects all over the world. Her main interests within ELT are materials development, teacher training and trainer training.  Her Cambridge readers ‘The Big Picture’ and ‘The Way Home’ were nominated for the Extensive Reading Foundation Award. ‘Dead Cold’ won the award in 2005.  Sue is now resident on the beautiful west coast of Canada, where she gains inspiration for her work. Cambridge University Press publications Bad Love (Cambridge English Readers) Dead Cold (Cambridge English Readers) Death in the Dojo (Cambridge English Readers) Dirty Money (Cambridge English Readers) Hotel Casanova (Cambridge English Readers) Just Like a Movie (Cambridge English Readers) The Amsterdam Connection (Cambridge English Readers) The Big Picture (Cambridge English Readers) The Way Home (Cambridge English Readers)

Susan House

Susan House has gained extensive experience in teacher training in Europe and Latin America over the years. She is currently a guest lecturer on teacher training programmes for the University of Salamanca, Spain. She has recently co-ordinated and written for a series of three teacher training books for the new Masters course for Spanish universities. She has co-authored a number of text books and resource books: Rocket to the Earth, Sprint, Sparks, An Introduction to Teaching English to Children, Footprints in the Forest (Richmond Publishing), Little Wizard and Little Detectives (Macmillan).

Susan Hunston

Professor Susan Hunston is Head of School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a wealth of experience working in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics and is author of numerous publications, including Corpora in Applied Linguistics. She was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics until 2009, and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics series, with Carol Chapelle.

Susan Proctor

Susan Proctor has extensive teaching experience in Japan, China, and in the United States, where she has taught at universities in Hawaii and California. She has specialized in the teaching of writing and continues to be active in curriculum development and materials design.

Susanne Tayfoor

Susanne Tayfoor has been teaching English for approximately 14 years. She taught a wide range of classes, including First Certificate level, at a language school in London, and spent a large amount of time working in the Executive Centre. She also worked as a teacher trainer at in Oxford for a year. Susanne spent two years teaching in Ferrara, Italy, during which time she designed and ran her own courses in English for Italian students at the university. She had to produce a lot of her own materials for the course and found that the idea of cartoons worked very well with classes. She has written a series of textbooks using cartoons, based on Contract, Criminal, Business and Tort Law.

Sylvia Ramirez

Sylvia Ramirez is a professor at MiraCosta College, where she is the Department Chair of the large noncredit program. She has more than 30 years of experience in adult ESL including multilevel and vocational ESL, family literacy, distance learning, teacher training, and textbook authoring.

Tamzen Armer

Tamzen Armer BSc graduated with a degree in Anatomical Sciences. Her professional experience as a scientific researcher includes a one-year placement at the Multiple Sclerosis Society laboratory at the Institute of Neurology, London followed by a full-time position as a research assistant at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. As a CELTA and DELTA qualified English language teacher, she has taught in South Korea, the UK, New Zealand and most recently in Australia. She is currently the Assistant Director of Studies at the University of Canberra English Language Institute.

Tessa Woodward

Tessa is a teacher, teacher trainer, and the Professional Development Co-ordinator at Hilderstone College, Kent, UK. Tessa is the author of many books and articles for language teachers and teacher trainers including Planning Lessons and Courses.

Theresa Clementson

Theresa has worked in ELT for over twenty years, teaching and developing materials both in Spain and England. In addition to English Unlimited, she is a test writer for Cambridge ESOL. Currently studying for an MA in ELT at Sussex University while writing and teaching, she is interested in the cognitive aspects of second language learning and use, particularly in relation to skills.

Thom Hudson

Thom Hudson is currently Professor and Graduate Chair of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i. He holds a MA degree in TESOL and a PhD in Applied Linguistics and has extensive English language teaching experience, both in the US and abroad. His research to date has focused on second language reading, second language testing, English for Specific Purposes, and program development. He also has an increasing interest in computer and web-based testing.

Tim Banks

Tim Banks has nearly 25 years experience in ELT, and has worked in Greece, Egypt, the Czech Republic, Vietnam, Thailand and Kenya. Tim is the author of Writing for Impact.

Tim Herdon

Tim Herdon has twenty-four years of experience in teaching, training and school management. During his career he has taught English in England, Spain and Japan, working in both private and public education. Tim is based in Valencia, Spain, and now works as a freelance education consultant. He is involved in various ELT teacher training projects, travelling regularly to Europe, Russia and Brazil. Recently Tim has worked on CLIL training projects at both primary and secondary level in England, and with a number of teacher centres in Spain. He also writes course book and exam material and readers. Cambridge University Press publications The Mayor of Casterbridge (Cambridge Discovery Readers)  

Vanessa Jakeman

Vanessa has been an EFL Teacher for 7 years. She has worked freelance for Cambridge ESOL since 1994 (IELTS, main suite and business exams) and now works predominantly on IELTS and is the co-author of IELTS 1 and 2 practice tests (CUP).

Veronica Teodorov

Virginia Allum

Virginia Allum has co-written 'Cambridge English for Nursing Intermediate Plus' and 'Cambridge English for Nursing Pre-Intermediate' with Patricia McGarr.

Viviane Kirmeliene

Wayne Rimmer

Wayne Rimmer has taught teenagers in Moldova, Russia, Thailand, Germany and the UK. His MA dissertation was on testing the grammar of teenagers and he has published on pedagogical grammar in many teaching and academic journals including Teacher Trainer Journal, Language Testing, Literacy and English Today. Wayne's other interest is pronunciation and he is joint coordinator of IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group.

Yoko Yamazaki

Degree in Applied Linguistics, Portland State UniversityYoko Yamazaki has seven years of experience in teaching academic writing at Waseda University International Corporation, where she also works as a curriculum developer and program supervisor.

Yusa Koizumi

M.Ed TESOL, Temple UniversityYusa Koizumi is a lecturer at Rikkyo University in Tokyo and teaches a variety of EFL courses. She is also currently undertaking a doctoral degree in TESOL at Temple University. Her research interests include second language writing, learner interaction, and focus on form.

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