Grzegorz SPIEWAK, Macmillan Education

BIODATA. Grzegorz Śpiewak, Ph.D., graduate of University of Essex (MA) and  University of Warsaw (Ph.D). Teacher of English, consultant, project manager, teacher trainer, conference speaker, author. Former lecturer and deputy director for English Teaching & CLIL at Warsaw University. Currently affiliated with Macmillan Education (Head ELT Consultant for Central & Eastern Europe), as well as with The…

Scott THORNBURY, British Council

BIODATA. Scott Thornbury teaches on the MA TESOL program at The New School in New York, but works mainly from Spain. His previous experience includes teaching and teacher training in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand, and he is a frequent presenter at international conferences. His writing credits include several award-winning books for…

Lilija VILKANCIENĖ

BIODATA Lilija VILKANCIENĖ works for the ISM University of Management and Economics as a senior lecturer, where she teaches Business English, Academic Writing and Effective Communication courses. She has been involved in a number of EU projects as a manager and in the British Council ESP and CLIL projects as facilitator and teacher trainer. Since 2004…

Ann SNOW

BIODATA Marguerite Ann Snow, Ph.D. is a professor of Education at California State University, Los Angeles where she teaches in the TESOL M.A. program. She is co-author of Content-based Second Language Instruction (1989; 2003), and co-editor of The Multicultural Classroom:  Readings for Content-Area Teachers (1992), and The Content-Based Classroom:  Perspectives on Integrating Language and Content…

Katarzyna Papaja

BIODATA Katarzyna PAPAJA – PhD in Applied Linguistics, works at the State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland. She specialises in Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Bilingual Education. She has given talks at many international and has published widely on bilingual education methodologies (mainly CLIL). She was a part of the teamwhich conducted groundwork leading…

Franz MITTENDORFER

BIODATA FRANZ MITTENDORFER is teacher of English, teacher trainer and language consultant to the Department of Vocational Education and Training at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education. He has taught in Austria and abroad (NILE training consultant since 2007), has co-authored the Austrian Language Portfolio for Young Adults, a textbook series (AMAZING ENGLISH) and a multi-media…

Anna Kolbuszewska

BIODATA Anna KOLBUSZEWSKA has been involved in ELT for over 25 years. She has worked as an English teacher, academic manager, teacher trainer on CELTA and DELTA courses, and director of a language school. Currently she is working as a language coach, trainer and consultant. She works mostly with teachers of English but has also trained German,…

Keith KELLY

BIODATA Keith KELLY (keithpkelly@yahoo.co.uk) is a freelance education consultant based in Bulgaria.  He is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer, a team member of Science Across the World. Keith is also a founder and coordinator of the Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching (FACTWorld). From 1999-2003 Keith was coordinator of the English Across the Curriculum project…

Vilma BIJEIKIENĖ

BIODATA Vilma BIJEIKIENĖ is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, where she teaches English for Politics and Diplomacy, Legal English and Sociolinguistics. She is also an Executive Editor of the international biannual scientific journal Darnioji Daugiakalbystė// Sustainable Multilingualism (http://uki.vdu.lt/sm, Open Journal Systems, indexed in CEEOL). She has…

Phil Ball

BIODATA Phil BALL works for the Federation of Basque Schools, based in San Sebastián, Spain. He has been closely involved with their successful plurilingual project, ‘Eleanitz’, and has been involved in several European projects. He has written a wide variety of CLIL textbooks for the Basque Schools’ social science syllabus (studied in English), and co-wrote and…