Professor Andrew Pollard
Andrew Pollard is Professor of Education and supports educational research at the Institute of Education, University of London, the University of Bristol, and the University of Cambridge, UK. He taught for ten years before becoming a teacher educator and researcher. He was Director of the UK-wide Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and advised the government on the National Curriculum Review.
www.reflectiveteaching.co.uk
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Professor Simon Borg
Simon Borg is Professor of TESOL at the School of Education, University of Leeds. He has been involved in TESOL for 25 years, working as a teacher, teacher educator, lecturer, supervisor, examiner, consultant and researcher in several language teaching contexts around the world. His key areas of research and professional activity in applied linguistics and TESOL are teacher cognition, teacher education, professional development, teacher research, and research methods training. His new book entitled Teacher research in language teaching: A critical analysis is being published by Cambridge University Press early in 2013.
Carol Read
Carol Read has over 30 years’ experience in English language teaching as a teacher, teacher trainer, academic manager and materials writer. She has taught students of all ages and levels, from very young children to adults. Carol’s main specialization is in primary language teaching and she has run numerous teacher education courses and worked as an educational consultant in many different countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Carol has published extensively in the field of teaching English to young learners, including course books, supplementary materials, online storytelling and CLIL projects, as well as many articles on primary ELT methodology. Carol’s award-winning titles include Is it a Butterfly? which won an Extensive Reading Foundation Award, Bugs(with three co-authors), which won a British Council Innovation Award, and 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom which was Highly Commended in the ESU Duke of Edinburgh awards. Her most recent publication, Footprints, is a highly successful, fully-digital, primary coursebook series. Carol is currently Vice-president of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).