David Crystal's authored works include several Penguin books, but he is best known for his two encyclopedias for Cambridge University Press, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Recent books include By Hook or By Crook: a Journey in Search of English (2007) and Txtng: the Gr8 Db8 (2008). A linguistic autobiography, Just a Phrase I'm Going Through appeared in May 2009. Co-authored books include Words on Words (2001), Shakespeare's Words (2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (2005. His books on English phonetics and phonology include Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English and The English Tone of Voice. His clinical books include Introduction to Language Pathology, Profiling Linguistic Disability, Clinical Linguistics, and Linguistic Encounters with Language Handicap. His work for schools includes the Skylarks, Databank, and Datasearch programmes, Nineties Knowledge, Language A to Z, Rediscover Grammar, Discover Grammar, and Making Sense of Grammar. He was founder-editor of the Journal of Child Language, Child Language Teaching and Therapy, and Linguistics Abstracts, and has edited several book series, such as Penguin Linguistics and Blackwell's Language Library. David Crystal has been a consultant, contributor, or presenter on several radio and television programmes and series. David Crystal is currently patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and the Association for Language Learning (ALL), president of the UK National Literacy Association, and an honorary vice-president of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the Institute of Linguists, and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. He has also been a member of the Board of the British Council and of the English-Speaking Union. He received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2000.

David Nunan, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University, has been with the California-based institution since its founding in 1996, when he played a central part in the development of the University’s ground-breaking interactive online learning system. Dr. Nunan is a world-renowned linguist and best-selling author of English Language Teaching textbooks for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Thomson Learning. His ELT textbook series “Go For It” is the largest selling textbook series in the world with total sales exceeding 1 billion. In 2000, David Nunan served as President of TESOL, the world’s largest language teaching association, and was the first person to serve as President from outside North America. David Nunan served as Chair and Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong and has been involved in the teaching of graduate programs for such prestigious institutions as Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, Monterey Institute for International Studies, and many more. In 2002 Dr. Nunan received a congressional citation from the United States House of Representatives for his services to English language education through his pioneering work in online education at Anaheim University, and in 2003 he was ranked the 7th most influential Australian in Asia by Business Review Weekly.

Herbert Puchta has a Ph.D. in ELT Pedagogy from the University of Graz, Austria, and was until recently Professor of English at the Teacher Training University in Graz. He has been a plenary speaker at numerous international conferences, and has conducted workshops and given seminars all over the world.
Herbert is a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming. For almost two decades, he has carried out research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Herbert has co-authored a number of course books for the teaching of English as a foreign language (among them Playway to English, More! and English in Mind), as well as articles and resource books. His latest resource books are Teaching Grammar Creatively, Multiple Intelligences in EFL and Imagine That!
Herbert is currently President of IATEFL, the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

Jeremy Harmer has taught in Mexico and the UK and is currently on the faculty for the MA TESOL at the New School University, New York. He has trained teachers and offered seminars all over the world. A writer of both course material and methodology, his titles include How to teach Writing (2004), the new, extensively revised second edition of How to Teach English (2007), and the brand new fourth edition of The Practice of English Language Teaching (2007)– all published by Pearson Education Ltd. He is the General Editor of the Longman ‘How to’ methodology list. Recent projects have included involvement in the new ‘Teacher Development Interactive’ an online self study course for ELT practitioners.

Currently the Administrator of Staff Development of the Ottawa Catholic School Board, Maria is responsible for Professional Learning for teachers of International Languages (Elementary & Secondary), English as a Second Language and Literacy. Maria was the first recipient of the Ottawa Citizen Award for Literacy and her program and staff have been recognized by various organizations including the Phi Delta Kappa for program excellence. She was also a recipient of her school board’s Director’s Commendation Award for her commitment and success in program development.
Maria was a producer and director for the instructional television series: At Home with English and has been a frequent speaker at TESOL. Maria has also coordinated and implemented various projects and initiatives in family literacy, workplace literacy, program research and development and founded a Mobile Learning Unit to bring literacy programming to rural communities. Provincially, Maria has delivered workshops and developed training materials on behalf of the Ministry of Education, has taught ESL, Spanish and Greek at various schools and has also contributed as an advisor to the TESL/TEFL training program at Algonquin College in Ottawa. Internationally, Maria has been a leader in teacher training events including the training of Korean Teachers of English and has been Chair of TESOL’s Adult Education Interest Section and a member of the Bilingual Education Interest Section as well. She is also the founding Chair of ILEA (International Language Educators’ Association of) Ontario and Conference Chair for CESBA (Continuing Education School Board Administrators).
Maria has delivered workshops at the provincial, national and international level on the following topics: reflective teaching, content based teaching, thematic teaching, action research, storytelling and language teaching, language and literacy, ESL and L1 Links.

Patricia is an Associate Professor of Linguistics/Rhetoric and Composition at Arizona State University. She received her PhD from Purdue University. She is the author of Language, Negotiation and Peace: the use of English in conflict resolution and the editor of Teaching Academic Writing (both by Continuum books). She is a frequent contributor of articles to periodicals such as World Englishes (where she has also edited a special issue on South America), English Today, Harvard Business Review, and the International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Her areas of interest and expertise include the politics of language, the spread of English, world Englishes, intercultural communication and, more recently Peace Linguistics. At Arizona State University, she is currently the Interim Director of the MA program in Social Justice and Human Rights. She teaches courses on Critical Applied Linguistics to future teachers, Intercultural Communication to business leaders, and writing at all levels. She is a member of the board of the International Multilingual Research Journal and committee coordinator for the Linguistics area of the Center for Global Nonkilling.

Ben has taught English for over 15 years in Spain, currently as an online tutor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona. He has also worked for the British Council in Hong Kong and is currently writing a British Council-run online teacher training course in Latin America.
He has a first class BA degree in English, an MA in English and American Studies, as well as a TEFL Diploma (DELTA). He is the coordinator and principal author of Richmond’s adult English course ‘Framework’. He has given talks and teacher training and methodological workshops in conferences throughout the world. With respect to ELT, his main interests lie in encouraging intercultural awareness and the use of image in teaching materials. A methodology handbook ‘Working with Images’ will be published by Cambridge in 2008

Kathleen Graves is Associate Professor of Education Practice at the School of Education, University of Michigan. Previously she was a professor of second language teacher education at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA. Dr. Graves has worked on curriculum renewal and language teacher education in Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Japan, Korea and the US. She is the editor/author of two books on course design, Teachers as Course Developers and Designing language courses and is the Series Editor of TESOL’s Language Curriculum Development series. She has also developed student materials, most recently the ICON series (with Linda Lee and Donald Freeman) for McGraw-Hill.

Donald Freeman is Director of Teacher Education, Associate Chair of Educational Studies, and Associate Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Michigan, where he directs undergraduate and post-graduate teacher preparation in all subjects K-12. Previously, he was on the graduate faculty and a senior administrator at the School of International Training, where he chaired the Department of Language Teacher Education and founded and directed the Center for Teacher Education, Training, and Research, a research and development unit that designed and implemented teacher education projects around the world. Dr. Freeman has published several books, articles and chapters on teacher education, including Teacher learning in language teaching (with Jack C. Richards; Cambridge), and Doing teacher-research (Heinle-Cengage). He is editor of the TeacherSource professional development series (Heinle-Cengage) and has written student and teacher material (ICON-MCGraw-Hill, with Kathleen Graves and Linda Lee). He works regularly with teachers in various settings around the world to interrelate teacher development, school change and student learning. Dr Freeman is a past president of TESOL, immediate past chair of the Board of the International Research Foundation for English Language Teaching (TIRF), and a past member the International Advisory Council for the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.

Michael Coghlan works as an eLearning Facilitator for the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sector in South Australia. He was a pioneer of teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) on the Internet in Australia when he started teaching online in 1998. He was also a founding member of the Webheads online community, one of the most successful and enduring online communities on the Internet. He has been described as "one of the few educators in Australia who has a realistic view of what is possible with technology and education." He has written widely on issues to do with the Internet and education, and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. (See http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/articlesetal.htm)
He has designed and delivered courses on ESL, Facilitating Online, and New Learning Technologies. Although Michael works mostly within the Australian Vocational and Education Training (VET) sector, his extensive network of national and international educators provides him with an invaluable global perspective on Internet education in all sectors.

Jennifer Bassett has been writing, editing, and thinking about stories for English language learners for more than twenty years. She has written nearly forty original and retold stories, several of which have won Language Learner Literature Awards from the Extensive Reading Foundation. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library of graded readers, and has recently created a mini-series of graded readers called Bookworms World Stories, which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She is also series co-adviser with H.G. Widdowson of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.

Ilan J. Kernerman is a dictionary specialist. His main fields of interest are dictionaries for learners, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, and electronic dictionary applications.
He edits and publishes Kernerman Dictionary News, as well as papers on lexicography, and lectures at international conferences and at universities. In 2009 these included:
- AFRILEX (African Association for Lexicography), University of Cape Town, South Africa
- AUSTRALEX (Australian Association for Lexicography), Macquarie University, Sydney (Keynote speech)
- DSNA (Dictionary Society of North America), Indiana University, USA (Leader of the DSNA Seminar on Learner’s Dictionaries)
- New Zealand Dictionary Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
- Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain
- Université de Lille III, France
Ilan heads K DICTIONARIES (KD), an international dictionary company that is based in Tel Aviv. It develops dictionary content and software covering well over 40 languages, and cooperates with publishing houses, technology firms, universities, lexicography associations, language experts and translators all over the world.
In Brazil, KD has been cooperating for the last 20 years with MARTINS FONTES on the innovative PASSWORD dictionary, which has become one of the most popular and acclaimed English learner’s dictionaries in the country. Also, last year KD began to offer internships on practical dictionary making to students of Portuguese and of translation at Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP).

Steve Taylore-Knowles has been involved in ELT for over 15 years, as a writer, a trainer, an examiner and a teacher. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Warwick, and is a Licentiate of Trinity College, London (Dip. TESOL). For a number of years he lived and worked in Greece, where he served on the Executive Board of TESOL Greece, and where he taught students and trained teachers at all levels, specialising in exam preparation. He has written a number of internationally successful courses, including the Laser (2nd edition 2008) and Destination (2007-08) series for Macmillan. His most recent course to be launched globally is openMind (2009), a ground-breaking multi-level series for young adults. He regularly speaks on various aspects of ELT at conferences and events around the world. Now based in his native county of Lancashire in the north of England, when he’s not working Steve tries to find time to go fishing.