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Members of the International Board

Alan Maley worked for The British Council from 1962 to 1988, serving as English Language Officer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China, and as Regional Representative in South India (Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust, Cambridge.

From 1993 to 1998 Alan was Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore, and from 1998 to 2003 he was Director of the graduate programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. He is currently a freelance consultant, and Series Editor for the Oxford University Press Resource Books for Teachers series (author of The Language Teacher's Voice).

His publications include Resource Book for Teachers: Literature, Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning (all with Alan Duff), The Mind''s Eye (with Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff), Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem (with Sandra Moulding), Short and Sweet, and The English Teacher's Voice.

David Nunan is Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, He was Director of Research and Development, NCELTR, and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programmes in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

David has published over 100 books and articles in the areas of curriculum and materials development, classroom-based research, and discourse analysis. His recent publications include Introducing Discourse Analysis (Penguin Books), The Self-Directed Teacher (Cambridge University Press), Voices from the Language Classroom (with Kathleen M. Bailey) (Cambridge University Press), The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (with R. Carter) (Cambridge University Press) and Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source (with K. Bailey and A. Curtis) (Heinle & Heinle).

His textbook projects include ATLAS, Go For It, Listen In, Speak Out and Expressions, all published by Heinle & Heinle/Thomson Learning. Go For It has recently been selected and adapted by People's Education Press as a basal textbook series for middle schools in China. He was President of TESOL 1999-2000.

Dave Hopkins is the director of TEFL International's academic programmes around the world. Mr. Hopkins began in English language training as an EFL teacher on a graduate internship at the Instituto Cultural Peruano-Norteamericano in Lima Peruholds. He received his Master's degree in TEFL and in Intercultural Management from the School of International Training (SIT).

He has taught, developed, managed and trained teachers in language programmes in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia for over three decades. His most recent position before coming on board with TEFL International was the course director at the AUA Language centre in Bangkok. Keeping up with changes in the industry and methodologies, Mr. Hopkins has helped bring TEFL International into the forefront of the industry with his experience and insightful knowledge.

Mario Rinvolucri is a well-known teacher trainer and has been in the English language teaching field for over 30 years - the last 26 years with Pilgrims. Rinvolucri also edits Pilgrim's online magazine Humanising Language Teaching, and his latest works include the CDROM-based language-learning software, Mind Game. (March 2000).

Brian Tomlinson is Head of the Post-Graduate, Research and Consultancy Unit in the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University. He's been around a long time in many countries (Nigeria, Zambia, Vanuatu, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore) and he's worked as a kitchen porter, secondary school teacher, film extra, teacher-trainer, curriculum developer, hop picker, director of studies, university lecturer and football coach.

Brian has given presentations to teachers in nearly 50 countries and published over 70 books and articles (including openings, Materials Development in Language Teaching and Developing Materials for Language Teaching). He's also the Founder and President of MATSDA, the International Materials Development Association, which runs annual conferences and workshops and publishes its journal Folio twice a year.

He is co-author of Discover English, a methodology book for English language teachers which focuses on language analysis.

Richard Day is Chair & Co-Founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii. Richard is also co-editor of the online journal Reading in a Foreign Language. He has developed numerous teaching resources, including Impact Issues and Impact Topics, both with Junko Yamanaka, and Journeys Reading 3, with Jim Swan and Masayo Yamamoto.

Robb Scott's first teaching experience outside of a university was at the Kickapoo Nation School, in Powhattan, Kansas, where he taught English and journalism in the early 1980s. From Powhattan (and Lawrence), he headed out on his first international adventure, teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in Quito, Ecuador.

In Quito, living at 9,000 feet altitude, Robb enjoyed teaching middle school ESL at Colegio Einstein and Academia Cotopaxi, an international K-12 American style school. At Cotopaxi, he did a stint as the middle school detention monitor as well as working in Spanish with a local printer to help the high school students publish their American style yearbook.

Most recently, Robb has been in Brooklyn, New York, where he wrote education materials for Newsweek, served as a technical instructor helping junior high students build Web pages in a Cablevision project, studied at Teachers College, Columbia University, and started an online newsletter for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) professionals.

Marc Helgesen is co-author of the English Firsthand textbook series (Longman) which is the market leader in Japan and Korea and popular throughout Asia. He is also an author of Active Listening, from Cambridge University Press. He teaches at Miyagi Gakuin - a women's university in Sendai, Japan - and also in the Columbia University Teachers College MA TESOL program-Japan.

Marc has led teacher development workshops throughout Asia and has been featured speaker at JALT (Japan Assoc. for Language Teaching), Korea TESOL and Thai TESOL.

John W. Miller: John W. Miller is an Academic Specialist for the Korean Language Programme at the Defence Language Institute, Monterey, California, where he is in charge of faculty development. He designs and facilitates teacher-training workshops for faculty and learning strategies workshops for students. John began his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia. After getting his MA, he taught in and directed Kyungsung University's Foreign Language Institute in Pusan, Korea for three years.

Later, while working for Ohio University, he helped launch OPELT, an English Language Program at Chubu University in Kasugai, Japan. He also served as Associate Peace Corps Director in Ukraine during the mid-90s and later returned to Ohio University to administer the OPELT Programme. John is currently finishing his dissertation for a PhD in Intercultural Communication at Ohio University. He has written extensively on language teaching and has conducted teacher training workshops in Liberia, Korea, Japan, Ukraine, and the U.S.

His current professional interests extend to areas such as reflective teaching, learning styles and strategies, and action research. He is particularly interested in learning more about the ways that intercultural relationships develop and change. He lives in Monterey with his wife, Sunhee, a naturalized Korean-American.

Wendy Redlinger: Dr. Redlinger joined the US Peace Corps as a teacher in Nepal in 1962 and soon found herself as a teacher training specialist for the Peace Corps in Nepal where she learned Nepali. After three years with the US Peace Corps, Dr. Redlinger returned to the US to earn an M.A. in Asian History (1971) at Washington State University and a Ph.D in Linguistics (1977) from the University of Arizona. She then moved to Switzerland where she worked on bilingual research at the University of Bern as a NATO postdoctoral research fellow.

Dr. Redlinger continued to do research and write for Miranda Associates & ACCESS, Inc. back in Washington, D.C. following her two years in Switzerland. In 1982, Dr. Redlinger joined The Experiment in International Living and worked there for the next nine years as a programme manager, placement specialist and training associate.

From 1990 to 2004, Dr. Redlinger worked for the School of International Training (SIT) designing teacher training programmes for their Master of Arts teaching Programme and from 1993, served as Director of the US State Department's English Language Fellow Programme. Wendy currently resides in Vermont, USA where she works as a group leader for Elderhostel Tours to SE Asia and enjoys performing early music on the portative organ and harpsichord and gardening.