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BIODATA. Jen MacArthur is the Regional English Language Officer (RELO) based at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia and covering the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic (Czechia), Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Jen previously served as the RELO in Islamabad and Mexico City….

BIODATA. I moved to Poland in 2006 from San Diego, California, and have made Wroclaw my home. For the first part of my teaching career I worked in language schools, teaching mainly younger learners and teenagers, and eventually branched out into other areas of EFL instruction, including exam English, business English, and teacher training. In 2012…

BIODATA. Russell Stannard is the founder of www.teachertrainingvideos.com. He was awarded the British Council ELTons award for ‘Technology’ and the Times Higher award for ‘Outstanding Technology Innovation’. Russell is a NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) associate trainer and tutor on the MA in TESOL as well as running the ‘Flipping your Classes’ course. He writes regular…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…