Miguel Ángel has been involved in teaching for almost 10 years now, having started as a Spanish Language Assistant in the USA and UK after university.
Helena’s teaching experience has involved teaching in a Japanese Junior and Senior High School and at a Junior College of Foreign Languages. 
Carmen Cadierno has been a teacher of English for 29 years at the EOI, where she currently holds the post of pedagogical adviser. She has written exams for EOI official certificates and she has also worked as a teacher trainer for in-service Primary and Secondary teachers of English. She's co-author of different articles and books related to the teaching and learning of English. She has also presented different talks and conducted workshops (based on her experience) at conventions and seminars for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. One of her areas of interest is "evaluation", not only of the product, but also of the process of learning.
Vince is currently Director of Studies at IH London, where he has been based for the last three years. He has also worked in Cairo and Prague as a teacher and Director of Studies. Apart from writing for Macmillan Heinemann ELT, he is a regular contributor to ELT journals and he has spoken at ELT conferences in the UK and abroad. He has also been involved in the course design of the IH Diploma in ELT Management and the Aston University MA Course.
I have been involved in teaching for almost 15 years now, having started as a Spanish Language Assistant in the UK after university. I currently work at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas (State run language schools), after working at Primary and Secondary schools and Alcalá de Henares University.
For several years now I have been the Head of Department at my school and I share my duties with the joy of working as a teacher trainer for in-service teachers.
One area of interest at the moment is the Internet, where I think there is a wide source of information and materials for students and teachers.
I have been a teacher for 10 years now at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas (State run language schools) in Spain after working on a Certificate in American Studies at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, where I was also a teacher assistant. I have always felt this experience rounded off my university years in Spain.
For several years now I have coordinated different programmes related to the use of computers in language teaching at my school. I am particularly fond of computerised language corpora and used them extensively while I was part of the team producing the unified exams for the Comunidad de Madrid. I am currently working on my doctorate in Semantics at the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).
José Miguel Galarza has been working as an English teacher in EOI Pamplona/Iruñea since 1986. After being Head of the English Department for six years, he was the School Master for a year and subsequently worked on the creation of the new Government of Navarre Languages Self Learning Centre. He is currently working on the new curriculum for EOI Language Schools in Navarre.
One area of particular interest since 1997 has been leading the publication of the "English Bulletin", the school’s magazine in English, and more recently the magazine "VOX POPULI", which includes Spanish, Basque, English, German, Italian, French, Japanese, Arabic and Russian contributions from both teachers and students.
Piotrek is currently Director of Studies at A1 School of Foreign Languages in Lublin, Poland. He has taught English at various levels and age groups, ranging from very young learners through to students at the Department of English at the Catholic University of Lublin. As a teacher trainer, he works for INSETT Poland and runs training sessions for state school teachers at Macmillan Polska seminars. He has given talks on a variety of topics at ELT and applied linguistics conferences in Poland and abroad. He is currently working on a PhD on spoken vocabulary of learners of English.
Pascual F. Pérez Paredes has worked as an EFL teacher in Spain since 1989, first in Secondary Schools and later, for eight years, in Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas (State-run Language Schools). Since 1996 he has been working at the English Department in the University of Murcia, Spain. He completed his doctorate in English Philology in 1999 and currently teaches English Language and Translation. He is also a Sworn Translator.
His main interests are affective variables in Foreign Language Learning, the compilation and use of language corpora and the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching/Learning. He is a member of the Research Group Lingüística Aplicada Computacional, Enseñanza de Lenguas y Lexicografía (LACELL).
I started EFL teaching more than 25 years ago as a way of supporting myself whilst living in France, Spain and Greece. On my return to the UK, I taught Business English and Communications before becoming involved in teaching English to settled minorities in the UK. I now manage an ESOL department in Sutton College, a large adult education college in south London.
I have diplomas in teaching English both as a Foreign and a Second Language to adults, and I am an experienced teacher trainer. I have successfully experimented in training EFL/ESOL and Modern Languages tutors together, and I am particularly interested in using communicative methods, such as drama, to encourage student interaction.
Cross-cultural communication and refugee issues were the subjects I researched for my master's degree in Educational Studies. Since completing this I have published several articles and book reviews and am currently co-editor of Language Issues journal.
This is the first time I have published material for student use.
Carmen holds an MA in English Language Studies with TEFL from Newcastle University and an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University. She has been a teacher of Spanish and English as a Foreign Language for the last eighteen years. In Spain she taught Spanish in the International Summer Courses of Salamanca University for eight summers. In Britain she taught Spanish at Newcastle University between 1985 and 1989 and at Edinburgh University between 1993 and 1998. She has been attached to the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas of Santander as an English teacher for the last ten years where she has taught English at all five levels of EOI. Here she has also worked as a teacher trainer for in-service primary English teachers. She has conducted several workshops on speaking activities and vocabulary teaching activities. As well as teaching English, she is currently working on a PhD at Edinburgh University on the Organisation of the Bilingual Lexicon, on which she has given several seminars.
I was born in Leeds in the north of England in 1969. I graduated from York University with a degree in English and History, after which I became a teacher of English as a foreign language. I lived and worked outside the UK for 5 years, teaching English in France, China, and Colombia. When I returned to the UK in 1996 I set up my own language school, English @ Oxford, based in the centre of Oxford. Whilst helping to run the school, I started contributing to the Inside Out Resource Packs as an author. I subsequently wrote material for various Macmillan courses, including In Company, Skyline, Attitude, & Straightforward. Nowadays I work as an in-house Commissioning Editor for Macmillan.
Outside ELT and publishing, I spend most of my free time with my wife and two sons. I enjoy long-distance running and I’m still looking to better my personal best marathon time of 3 hours 14 minutes!
Mabel Soracco comes from Argentina, where she worked as a teacher of English at different levels for about ten years before moving to Spain. She has now taught English at the EOI of Barcelona Drassanes for about twenty years. She has also worked as a teacher trainer for in-service primary and secondary school teachers of English. She is co-author of several articles and books on the teaching and learning of English. She has presented talks and conducted workshops in conventions and seminars for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. She has also been in charge of the writing of exams for EOI official certificates. At present she is also working at the Self-Learning Centre at the EOI. She is especially interested in autonomous learning and in the use of literature in the language class.
Russell is Director of Studies at IH, Seville but is currently studying and working in the UK; studying for a MSc in Multi-Media for languages and also distance learning with video conferencing, and teaching Spanish and English in Sutton. He has taught in England, Spain and Greece and has worked as a teacher trainer for the Spanish Government helping train teachers to work with the educational reforms.
