Grant Trew

DAVID PERSEY

GABRIEL SKOP

EDMUND DUBLEY

Edmund Dudley is a teacher trainer, materials writer and teacher of English with more than 25 years of classroom experience. Based in Budapest, he has extensive experience of teaching EFL at both primary and secondary levels. He works with teachers from around the world as a freelance teacher trainer and as a tutor at the University of Oxford’s ELT Summer Seminar.
ANA BRATKOVIC

AARON SEIGEL

Aaron Siegel is an ELT consultant at the e-future Research and Development Institute. He is also an EFL teacher, teacher trainer, ELT materials author and language learner. He has spent eight years in English language education and can be seen speaking internationally on educational technology and practical teaching methodology. ...
DEREK ‘DEL’ SPAFFORD

Derek ‘Del’ Spafford (MA TESOL; Dip.TESOL) is the regional teacher trainer and academic consultant for Macmillan Education. He has been working in ELT for over 20 years. His experience includes 11 years with the British Council in Thailand, where he has planned and delivered teacher professional development in a variety of contexts including both private and public schools. ...
Steven Happel

Steven Happel has been teaching English professionally for more than 15 years. His experience varies from tutoring foreign exchange students in the United States to the ESL classrooms of Vietnam. He has worked at VUS as a teacher for the last ten years, later becoming head teacher and then academic advisor.
KRISTOF VAN HOUDT

Curiosity and adventure are Kristof's driving forces in his role as the education technology coordinator for the school of languages and English at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has been teaching English for more than 15 years across South East Asia. His formal qualifications include a DELTA, an MA in digital technology, communication and education and an M.Ed. in ESL. ...
LE ANH PHUONG

LE DINH BAO QUOC

Le Dinh Bao Quoc holds an MA in TESOL and has been working in the field of ELT for 15 years in Vietnam. His teaching and training experience varies from teaching students of all ages in different classroom settings – public schools, universities and colleges, and private language centers – to training teachers ...
DEL SPAFFORD

MIKE MAYOR

Mike Mayor is Director, Global Scale of English at Pearson. In this role, Mike heads up research into creating audience-specific learning objectives aligned to the Global Scale of English, working with Content teams to ensure that these learning objectives underpin all new products and services. ...
NINA LAUDER

JOANNA RASKIN

CARL DUSTHIMER

Carl Dusthimer began his career in education in Korea in 1988. He was a founding member of Korea TESOL and served as president from 1997 to 1999. Carl was Director of Education at the Gyeonggi English Village, an experiential English village created by the Gyeonggi provincial government, where he was in charge of program and curriculum development. ...
Allen Davenport

Allen Davenport is the Teacher Development Manager for the Southeast Asian Region at Cambridge University Press. Allen holds a BS in cultural anthropology and linguistics and an MS in education with a focus in academic counseling and student development. Allen has been involved in English language teaching for more than a decade in various roles including teacher, academic program coordinator, ce
Gemma Thompson

Gemma Thompson is a teacher and SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator) at the British Council Vietnam. She has a CELTA, TYLEC and a Diploma in SEN. She has been teaching in Vietnam for the past 3 years to both young learners and adults in a variety of contexts including General English, Business English and Exam Classes
Victoria Murphy

Victoria Murphy is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Her research centers on child L2 and foreign language learning in primary school. She is the convenor of the ‘Research in English as an Additional Language (REAL)’ Group. Her main focus of research is to examine the language and literacy development of EAL children...
Angela Ffrench

John Lowe

Mina Patel

Mina Patel has been working in the field of English education for over 25 years as a teacher, trainer, materials writer, author, project manager and now consultant. Mina worked full-time for the British Council for nine years in Sri Lanka and Malaysia before leaving to set up her own training and consultancy company….
Roslyn Orgel

Stephen Faulkner

Hanan Khalifa

Heather Barikmo

Heather Barikmo is the Instructional Technology Coordinator at The English Language Center, an Intensive English Program at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. Her teaching focuses on reading and oral communications, and she incorporates web and mobile technologies to enhance student learning both inside and outside the classroom ...
Marcus Artigliere

Marcus Artigliere is a Nationally Board Certified K- 12 teacher and technology coach who works in a large middle school in Brooklyn. He also serves as a faculty member at Hunter College’s School of Education in Manhattan, where he helped design the first online course for the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. ...
Nguyen Ngoc Vu

Nguyen Ngoc Vu is Dean of English Department, HCMC University of Education, Vietnam. A linguist, language teacher and IT programmer, Vu is known in Vietnam for his works in E-learning and Technology in Language Teaching. His well-known ED Quiz software package was awarded national prize in Vietnam Technology Innovation 2011...
Monika Akiert

Timothy L Farnsworth

Dr. Farnsworth conducts research on language assessments to investigate their usefulness for classroom teachers. He received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCLA in 2008. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences, and his work has appeared, or is in press, in the journals TESOL Quarterly, Language Assessment Quarterly ...
Clyde Fowle

David Kaye

David Kaye is Regional Teacher Development Manager for Pearson and is the series consultant for Tieng Anh, the innovative new secondary course for Vietnamese schools. Starting in 2002, teaching Primary English at local schools in small-town Japan, David went on to support schools of all sizes, creating exciting and engaging lessons for learners of all ages in India, England and Hong Kong ...
Doan Kim Khoa

Doan Kim Khoa obtained her B.A. at HCMC University of Education, and got her M.A. in TESOL, University of Canberra, Australia. She is currently working as a lecturer at HUFLIT University. She has had experiences in teaching English for Specific Purposes such as Business, Medicine, Tourism, and Hospitality. Apart from ESP, she teaches culture. ...
Eric Verspecht

Eric Verspecht was an English teacher and coordinator at different levels in Mexico City. As a teacher trainer he has given workshops in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. He has also participated in TESOL events in different countries. Eric is the ELT/Reading/Language Arts Product Manager for McGraw-Hill Asia. ...
Khau Huu Phuoc

Khau Huu Phuoc graduated cum laude from Ho Chi Minh City University of Education in 1990 and received his MA in TESOL from Canberra University in 2000. He was also a certified oral examiner for Cambridge ESOL for eight years. Mr. Phuoc started teaching English skills to English teaching majors in HCMC University of Education right after his graduation. ...
Kim Pilger

Rebecca Fletcher

Rebecca Fletcher, Korea Product Manager, has worked for Oxford University Press since 2008. She has been an educator since 1995 and has experience teaching in the US and Korea. Her extensive experience includes teaching courses emphasizing English communication skills to young learners, university students, and adults. She holds a Master of Arts in English ...
Sadie Maddocks

How can we enrich young learners’ understanding of how language and culture are connected? How can we raise awareness of cultural diversity at the same time as developing the English language skills of children? These are challenges which need to be addressed in the light of ASEAN and the fact that in our globalized world, citizens are becoming increasingly more mobile...
Alan Maley

Alan has been involved with English Language teaching for 50 years now. From 1962-88, he worked for the British Council in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, China and India. He was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge from 1988-93. He served as President of IATEFL from 1988-91. After leaving Bell, he worked as Senior Fellow at NUS, Singapore until 1998. ...
Tran Xuan Thao

Patrick Painter

Patrick Painter studied cultural history and pedagogy in Canada and the United States at the University of Western Ontario, York University, and the University of Connecticut. He worked as a university lecturer and English language teacher for 7 years before joining Express Publishing as an ELT consultant
Richard Hallows

Richard Hallows has worked in several universities in the UK teaching EAP, IELTS, and Teaching Methodology. He has co-authored CENGAGE Learning’s best-selling IELTS series, 'IELTS Express', and has written and presented various language based programmes for BBC radio & the 'Learning English' website. ...
Andrew Tweed

Andy holds a MATESOL from the University of Washington, and is currently the United States Senior English Language Fellow at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh--where he runs training programs and assists with developing and administering courses for trainee teachers. he Teacher Training department for Apollo Eng ...
Andrew Stokes

Andrew Stokes has spent his whole life working with languages. He studied French and Spanish at university, and went on to become a French and ESOL teacher. He taught French in a secondary school in Malaysia, and English in Spain, Malaysia, the UK and Hong Kong, both in the university sector and for the British Council.
Duong Thi Hoang Oanh

Dr Duong Thi Hoang Oanh obtained a BA in the English language at Hue University (1985), an MA in TESOL at Canberra University (1994), Australia; a PhD in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2003), and a Post Doctorate in Management in Higher Education at Yale University, the USA (2007) and a Post Doctorate in International Studies, RMIT, Australia (2010). ...
Carolyn Henner Stanchina

Carolyn Henner Stanchina has taught EFL, ESL, Academic Reading and Writing, Critical Thinking, History and French to adults, college, pre-college, and high school students, while also teaching Methods and Practicum courses at CUNY, and participating in professional development projects in the United States and abroad. ...
David Nunan

Bruce Rogers

Bruce Rogers has taught ESL, EFL, and test preparation since 1979. He was senior instructor and later chair of the English Program at the Economics Institute, University of Colorado, for 20 years. He has taught at the Central Bank of Indonesia,in Jakarta, Indonesia; at the National Economics University in Hanoi,Vietnam ...
Mary Nance-Tager

Mary Nance-Tager, MA in TESOL from Hunter College/CUNY, has been teaching ESOL for over 25 years. She began her teaching career working with aging, semi-literate Cambodian refugees in New York City’s South Bronx, where she quickly discovered the importance of using varied and student-centered teaching practices. ...
Nguyen Thi Hoai An

Nguyen Thi Hoai An is a freelance lecturer in HCMC at different universities and colleges. She has a Master Degree in TESOL (University of Canberra). Since the beginning of her EFL teaching and teacher training career, An has focused on helping her students create and increase their intrinsic motivation in learning. ...
AARON SIEGEL

Aaron Siegel is an ELT consultant at the e-future Research and Development Institute. He is also an EFL teacher, teacher trainer, ELT materials author and language learner. He has spent eight years in English language education and can be seen speaking internationally on educational technology and practical teaching methodology. ...
John Cruft

Gilly Dempster

Gilly Dempster is an ELT consultant/trainer working part-time for Macmillan based in Korea and has experience as a teacher here and in Scotland. She holds a degree in English/Sociology from Aberdeen University, a Montessori diploma, a TESOL certificate and has developed, and indeed is still developing, resources to aid children are learning. ...
Ian Walkinshaw

Ian Walkinshaw has been involved in English language teaching at various levels for 17 years and has taught in Japan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Britain and Australia. He has a PhD in applied linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington. He has published and given conference papers in the fields of ELT methodolog ...
Nguyen Thi Anh Dao

Nguyễn Thị Anh Đào has been teaching English at Sai Gon University and some other universities for 27 years. During those years she has enjoyed teaching most of the subjects related to English teaching such as Reading, Speaking, Listening, Writing, Translation, Lexicology, Semantics, Phonetics and Country Study. ...
Carmella Lieske

Anne Ediger

Dr. Anne Ediger is currently Chair of the Dept. of Curriculum & Teaching and Professor in the TESOL MA Program at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has taught ESL/EFL to students ranging in age from 5 to 75 for nearly 30 years, and has conducted teacher-training seminars in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico for more than 20 years ...
Martha Clark Cummings

Dr. Martha Clark Cummings of the City University of New York has an MA and EdD in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, the New School Online University and at Teachers College in New York. She has been training teachers since 1988, in Cyprus, Thailand, Tunisia, and Turkey ...
Patrick Hafenstein

Gabriel Allison

Pham Tan

Phạm Tấn currently teaches at English Department, University of Education, HCMC. He believes in joyful learning - a short cut to success and happiness in the classroom. His ELT philosophy is “present joys, future gain”, not “no pain, no gain” as often found in many dry-as-dust English classes. Antidotes to these painful classes are two, according to his view ...
Ruhma Choudhury

Katherine MacKay

Katherine MacKay has been working in the education field in Asia for over 15 years. Her extensive experience in teaching, training, program coordination, curriculum development, sales and marketing is now utilized throughout the Asia Pacific, the Arab World & Latin America. She holds an MA in Teaching English to Young Learners from the University of York in the U.K and her CELTA qualification ...
Duriya Aziz SW

Duriya Aziz SW is Deputy General Manager for Educational Publishing at Marshall Cavendish International (Singapore) Private Limited. She has written several textbooks and readers for language learners of different ages and ability levels. She has also presented papers widely at language-learning and educational conferences ...
Ha Van Sinh

Dr. Ha Van Sinh is the founder (1994) and currently Director of PTC Language Center in Nha Trang. Working as an EFL classroom teacher and teacher-trainer since 1979, he has many opportunities meeting with English teachers and lecturers from North to South, from pre-school to university institutions.
Heather Joy Wright

Heather Joy Wright As Australasian Training Academy Manager and Trainer in Vietnam, she has managed and trained graduates for ATA TESOL in Vietnam since 2004. Over 350 Vietnamese TESOL teachers and approximately 120 foreign ones have graduated from this course. She delivers the course in Vinh, Nha Trang, Mekong Delta, Phan Thiet for ATA TESOL. ...
Michael Cahill

Michael Cahill is an experienced teacher, trainer and consultant based in Tokyo, Japan. He has taught students of all ages and abilities in Taiwan, Malaysia and the United States. His areas of interest include teaching young learners and learner training. His most recent teaching position was at Soochow University in Taipei ...
Andy Curtis

Andy Curtis is the Director of the English Language Teaching Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction within the Faculty of Education at CUHK. Dr Curtis received his MA in Applied Linguistics and his PhD in International Education from the University of York, England in 1996 ...
Bruce Veldhuisen

Bruce Veldhuisen

Paula Hanna

Oliber Bayley

Cole Breuer

Cole Breuer is a head teacher at VUS with close to two years’ experience in the field. He is passionate about teaching, especially young learners and beginner adults. As more Vietnamese students head overseas for post-secondary education, he also enjoys helping young TOEFL and IELTS students explore their place in a globalized world ...
Gavin J. Biggs
Christopher Allen

Gio PaniIzzon

Alan Davis

Alan Davis has 20 years of experience in English education and training which includes curriculum design, online instruction, teacher training and consulting, and project design, implementation and management. He earned a degree in Anthropology from the University of Washington and a Masters in TESOL from the University of Technology, Sydney...
USHAPA FORTESCUE

TERESA BRUNO
Teresa Bruno is a dedicated English as a Second Language and Bilingual teacher educator. For over 10 years, she has served as a teacher, teacher-leader, administrator and new-teacher mentor in US public schools. She has worked at the Hunter College School of Education since 2013, concentrating on teacher education for ESL and Bilingual classroom teachers. ...
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GORDON LEWIS

GORDON LEWIS is Vice President, Languages for Laureate Higher Education, based in Princeton, NJ, USA. He earned a B.S. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and an M.S. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey , California . From 1991-1999 he ran a language school for children in Berlin, Germany. ...
USHAPA FORTESCUE

Ushapa Fortescue is a graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University with over 13 years of teaching experience.
In addition to a CELTA, she also has a Teacher Training certificate for the Post 16 sector and is a qualified and experienced Oxford Teacher’s Academy trainer.
This combination of qualifications means that she has a broad range of teaching experience both in the UK and abroad. ...
MASA SUZUKI

Masa Suzuki is currently Director of Test Development at Pearson. He has over 10 years of experience in developing, validating, researching, and managing large-scale, high-stakes automated language tests in collaboration with partners including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. Department of Defense, and Peking University. ...
Ben Shearon

Huynh Thi Ai Nguyen

Patricia Sokolski

DR. PATRICIA SOKOLSKI teaches in the Communication Studies program, which includes Communication courses for non-native speakers of English, at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. She has developed learning communities with communication courses, philosophy, and English for first-year students as well as paired math and critical thinking courses ..
Michele Piso

Stuart Vinnie

STUART VINNIE has been involved in ELT since 1996, as a teacher, examiner, teacher-trainer and ICT coordinator in the UK, Japan, Thailand, Portugal and China. Nowadays, as the Teacher Development Manager, Asia, for Cambridge University Press, Stuart spends his time meeting teachers through seminars, conference presentations
Jack Hsiao

Ian Bosiak

Jonee de Leon

Jonee de Leon has been working in the field of English education for over ten years. Most recently he has been an active Admission & Program Consultant for major international schools and language centers in countries all over the region, including Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar and South Korea, as well as Vietnam
Dao Nguyen Anh Duc

Dao Nguyen Anh Duc is a lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City Banking University. She earned her Master degree in TESOL Studies from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2004 and has just completed her MBA program with Bolton University, UK. Her teaching experience includes that with young kids, high school and university students as well as adults and corporate learners
Paul Grainger

Paul Grainger has spent almost 20 years in Asia working as an instructor, trainer, and consultant. For the past 8 years, he has been working as ELT/School Product Manager for National Geographic Learning, a role which allows him to share ideas with teachers on how to best make use of National Geographic's world class photography and fascinating ...
TRUONG TRAN AI THU

IAN WALKINSHAW

Dr. Ian Walkinshaw is a senior lecturer in applied linguistics in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He previously worked in New Zealand, Japan, Britain and Vietnam, where he was an academic advisor at the Vietnam-USA Society in Ho Chi Minh City (2007-2009). ...
TRACY DIGNAN

KATE BALDUS

IVAN SORRENTINO

LE THI ANH PHUONG

Dr. Phuong Le, currently working at Phu Yen University, Vietnam, has been an EFL teacher and teacher educator for 37 years. For the last 20 years, she has also been involved in helping the learners with IELTS exams. She has presented and published extensively both nationally and internationally on various EFL issues.
Le Thi Anh Phuong

Dr. Phuong Le, currently working at Phu Yen University, Vietnam, has been an EFL teacher and teacher educator for 37 years. For the last 20 years, she has also been involved in helping the learners with IELTS exams. She has presented and published extensively both nationally and internationally on various EFL issues. Her current professional interests include language assessment, learners’ creativ