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Theresa Zanatta is an author, teacher, teacher
trainer, and ELT education consultant. She has
more than 20 years experience teaching
English and training English teachers around
the world. During the last years, she has been
consultant for the Ministry of Education in
different countries like Canada, United States,
Spain, Libano and United Emirates. Currently,
she is the Director of the North American
Research Institute in Barcelona and Badalona,
Spain. Aditionally, She is the author of several
series of books for children learning English in
both public and private schools. Her latest
series is Catch!, that has been published by
Richmond Publishing.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Jeff Stranks has been involved in EFL since
1973. He worked for many years with the Bell
Educational Trust, especially as Senior Tutor in
EFL at Bell College Saffron Walden from 1980
to 1991. He then moved to work as a trainer and
co-ordinator with Cultura Inglesa Rio de
Janeiro, where he stayed until 2001. He is now
a freelance trainer and writer, and co-author
with Herbert Puchta of the 'English in Mind'
series published by CUP. Jeff is also an ICELT
moderator and external assessor for DELTA.
He continues to live and work in Brazil.
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PEARSON EDUCACIÓN DE COLOMBIA
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Izabella Hearn has over 25 years teaching
experience, starting at International House,
London and moving on to Central America and
Spain. She has been teaching at King’s
College, Madrid since 1985. For the past 15
years she has been involved in teacher training,
giving workshops and plenary sessions
throughout Europe, the United States and South
America. Izabella served on the Executive Board
of TESOL Spain for six years and was also a
member of the ESL/Mother Tongue Committee
of the Council of International Schools. At
present, Izabella is the director of SEAL-Spain
(Society of Effective Affective Learning) and is an
active member of many of the affiliated
organisations. Izabella trained as an NLP
practitioner, and has developed creative
techniques in the classroom based on her
research in this area. Izabella has written a
large number of primary EFL textbooks,
including Fun English (Pearson Longman
2002), and English Adventure levels 5 and 6,
(Pearson Longman 2004) as well as Didáctica
del Inglés, a methodology book for primary
teachers (Pearson Prentice Hall 2003).
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Angela Llanas studied and worked in the
theatre for 2 years before coming to Mexico. She
received the Royal Society of Arts Diploma in
the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
with distinction. Ms. Llanas has been a teacher
and teacher trainer for many years in Mexico,
Latin America and all over the world. She loves
writing and is coauthor of various ELT series
including most recently Domino, Beeline Plus
and BOUNCE. Ms. Llanas is also an academic
consultant for Macmillan.
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Before and after receiving his PhD from the
University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1966. Dr
Otto has dedicated his career to teaching
English and Spanish as second and foreign
languages to learners of all ages and levels of
proficiency, to educating and training second
and foreign language teachers and teacher
educators, to developing and evaluating
innovative applications of interactive multimedia
(MM) to teach and learn second and foreign
languages more effectively, and to directing and
sponsoring impartial empirical-data research
studies involving the acquisition and retention
of second and foreign languages through
applications of state-of-the-art affordable
technology.
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Ms Mary Meyer is an Educational Consultant for
Oxford University Press. She has a B.A. in
English Language and a M.Sc. in Education
and Training from the University of Surrey.
Experienced in the practical as well as the
theoretical aspects of ELT, she was President
of TESOL in Paraguay in the 90s. At present, Ms
Meyer heads a consulting firm that designs and
supervises English programmes for private
schools, and designs and conducts
teacher-training courses in Asunción,
Paraguay. As a teacher trainer she travels
extensively delivering seminars and workshops
to teachers of English in countries like
Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Taiwan,
Uruguay, and Argentina.
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Andy Curtis is currently the Director of the
School of English at Queen’s University in
Ontario, Canada, which creates and presents
courses to around 1,000 international students
from more than 50 countries each year. He
earned a first degree in teaching from
Sunderland University (UK), then went on to
complete an MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT
and a PhD in International Education, at the
University of York (UK). Andy recently completed
a year as a Visiting Professor in the Department
of Language Teacher Education at the School
for International Training in Vermont, USA. He
has given 100 talks and workshops in 20
countries and worked with English language
teachers and students in Europe, Asia, North,
South and Central America. He has published
around 70 articles and papers, as well as
Pursuing Professional Development co-
authored with Kathi Bailey and David Nunan,
and Washback in Language Testing co-edited
with Liying Cheng and Josh Watanabe.
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ANGLO PUBLISHING
HOUSE
EXPRESS PUBLISHING
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Jenny Dooley is a graduate from the University
of Wales, Swansea, and holds an MA Ed. She
has been a teacher, teacher trainer, and an
author in the ELF flied for more than fifteen
years. She has traveled extensively, delivering
seminars and holding workshops in Europe,
Latin America, and the Middle East. She
currently holds the position of Director of
Studies in one of the piloting schools used by
Express Publishing and is also the President of
a Centre which runs Cambrigde ESOL exams.
On a practical level, she has been actively
involved in the creation of children's theatre
groups, which aim at stimulating young
learners' imaginations while enhancing their
English language learning. She is currently
involved in the development of material for
young learners and is a prolific author whose
name is associated with numerous Express
Publishing titles.
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