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Adriadi NOVAWAN is Lecturer, Politeknik Negeri Jember (PNJ), Indonesia. Currently, he is Secretary to the Chair of the Department of Language, Communication and Tourism. He teaches writing, pronunciation and speaking, as well as ESP courses such as English for computer engineering, informatics management and food industrial technology. His professional interests are in methodology and materials development in language teaching.

Agus Setia BUDI is an English lecturer at Politeknik Negeri Jember, Indonesia. Currently, he chairs the English laboratory at the Department of Language, Communication and Tourism. He teaches EFL courses like reading, vocabulary, listening, and translation at the department. He also teaches ESP courses such as English for Agro Industry, English for Livestock, English for Horticulture, and English for Food Technology.

Agus is interested in ELT methodology and materials development. He has published some articles in the areas of vocabulary and reading techniques.

Asep SAMSUDIN is a lecturer at the State Polytechnic of Jember, Indonesia. He teaches EFL courses like vocabulary, listening, and grammar at the Department of Language, Communication, and Tourism. He also teaches ESP courses such as English for Informatics Management at the Information Technology Department.

Asep is interested in ELT methodology and materials development. He has written articles on grammar and teaching media. Currently, Asep is the chair of the Language Center of the State Polytechnic of Jember.

Endah Nur TJENDANI is an English teacher educator at the Faculty of Education, Universitas Islam Jember based in East Java, Indonesia. She was a member of the Jember Education Board and supervisor of Education Management of Pesantrens (Islamic Boarding School) for 5 years. Currently, she is an editor of the Jurnal Lingua Nusantara. She also consults on ELT Materials Development at junior high schools.

Endah teaches assessment in ELT, ELT methodology, and microteaching. She is the author of ELT related articles published in local journals (e.g., Inspirasi, Khitah, Jurnal Lingua Nusantara, and Jurnal Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial). Her professional and research interests are in ELT methodology and school based curriculum.

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Astika GUSTI is Lecturer, English Department, Satya Wacana University, Salatiga. He obtained his Sarjana Degree in English Education from the university in 1983, M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Hawaii, 1991, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, in 2005. He is a frequent speaker at ELT conferences and his publications have appeared in several journals in Indonesia and abroad. His interests are syllabus design, teaching methodology, and research. His recent publications are Readings in Language Teaching and Research (2007) and A Task-Based Syllabus Design: Evidence from tour guiding (2008).

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Handoyo Puji WIDODO teaches at Politeknik Negeri Jember and currently serves as Chair of the Department of Language, Communication, and Tourism. Widodo is a Visiting Lecturer at the English Language Institute (ELI), King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudia Arabia. He has published refereed articles and book reviews in international journals (e.g., English Modern Teacher, Asian EFL Journal, English Teaching: Practice & Critiques, etc.). Widodo’s work has also been published in edited ELT volumes. Widodo has presented papers at international conferences such as the Asia TEFL Conference. He is currently on the editorial board of International Journal of Innovation in English Language Teaching & Research, ELT World Online, Journal of Language Teaching and Research, International Journal of English and Literature, TESOL-SPAIN Newsletter, and TESL-EJ.

Widodo’s recent book publications include The Lincom guide to materials design in ELT (with L. Savova) and Observation of teaching: Bridging theory and practice through research on teaching (with G. Park & A. Cirock) through Lincom Europa (2010, Muenchen, Germany). His recent edited book with A. Cirocki entitled “Innovation and creativity in ELT methodology” is to appear through Nova Science (2011, New York). Widodo’s areas of specialization include ELT curriculum and materials development, second language writing, English for specific purposes, and teacher professional development.

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Lina Sinatra WIJAYA is Senior Lecturer, Professional Program, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia. She got her MA degree in Public Relations (PR) from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK in 1997. She teaches English and PR subjects and has been involved in the design and development of English handbook materials for her program.

Here publications include Preparatory English (Widya Sari Press, 2001)and A Guide of making a job application letter and CV in English (Trans Media Press, 2008). She is also involved in some PR research funded by the Indonesian Government. She has published papers related to teaching English and PR topics in some journals.

Ilzam MAHFUDURIO is a visiting lecturer at a few universities (e.g., IKIP PGRI Jember and Universitas Jember) in East Java Indonesia. He teaches ESP for Muhammadiyah Tourism College of Jember. He is a coordinator of Students’ Workplace Based English Competency Development Program for tourism students.

Ilzam is the founding member of Language and Culture Development (PUSPADAYA—Local NGO). His research interests are in ELT methodology and language socialization.

Martha Nandari Santoso HANDOKO is Lecturer, Faculty of Language and Literature, Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia. She teaches English as a foreign language to Indonesian students and teaches Indonesian as a foreign language to Australian, American, Japanese, Singaporean and other non-native speakers of Indonesian. She has an MA (Applied Linguistics) from the National University of Singapore. Her main research interests are in the areas of TEFL, ESP, material development, language testing and multimodality

Nila SUSANTI, a tenured English lecturer at Politeknik Negeri Jember, teaches basic writing for EFL college students. She is also involved in the teaching of ESP courses such as English for Management Agribusiness, English for Agricultural Technology, and English for Animal Husbandry.

Nila has published some refereed articles in local journals (e.g., Edusaintek and Lingua Franca).Her research interests lie in ELT methodology and materials development as well as the use of literature in ELT.

Priyo WIDODO teaches at the University Islam Jember and STAIN Jember based in East Java, Indonesia. He is an English tutor/murabbi at STAIN Jember. He teaches EFL courses such as writing, speaking, listening, reading, and discourse analysis.

Priyo has published articles in local journals (e.g., Jurnal Lingua Nusantara). His professional and research interests include ESP, ELT syllabus-materials development, ELT methodology, second language writing, and professional development for teachers.

Siti AISYIYAH is an English lecturer at the Department of Language, Communication, and Tourism, Politeknik Negeri Jember, East Java, Indonesia. She teaches EFL courses like Speaking, Structure, Translation, Public Speaking, and English for Information Technology. In addition, she trains students for the National Polytechnic English Debating Contest.

Siti’s publications include The Students’ Ability in Correcting the Syntactical Errors and Students’ Learning Autonomy published in the Indonesian Journal. She is interested in ICT, materials development in English language teaching and entrepreneurship in language training.

Titik ISMALIA is a full-time lecturer at Politeknik Negeri Jember (vocational college), Indonesia. She was the coordinator of an internship program in academic years 2007 to 2009.

Titik teaches reading, vocabulary, writing, translation, and structure at college level. She also teaches ESP courses like English for Agro Industry, English for Computer Engineering, English for Informatics Management, and English for Seed Technology. She is interested in English teaching methodologies, ESP, translation, and materials development.

Fitri WIJAYANTI earned her MA in English Education at State University of Malang in 2007. She teaches at the Department of English, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, one of the private universities in Banyuwangi, East Java. As a part-timer, she is currently teaching English for IT at Politeknik Negeri Jember. She also teaches courses like Writing, Teaching and Learning Strategy, Seminar on ELT, and ESP courses like English for Medical Records. Her professional interests lie in materials development, pragmatics, and language teaching strategies.

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Susan Mila P. ALVAREZ-TOSALEM is Assistant Professor at the Division of Humanities, University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV). She finished her MA English Language and Literature Teaching at the Ateneo de Manila University as a CHED Scholar, and her BA English Language Studies (Creative Writing), cum laude at University of the Philippines Diliman.

Susan teaches basic writing, communication skills, and literature courses. She has been actively involved in teacher training through UPV’s Office of Continuing Education and Pahinungod. She is also part of the English Language Skills Enhancement Training for foreign students, a regular program offered by the UPV Language Program Office.

Aside from being the 2009 Salvador Benedicto professorial Chair in Humanities, she has also edited two volumes of Danyag, UPV’s Journal for the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

Anna Liza M. BARCELONA earned her B.A. English Studies degree from the University of the Philippines-Diliman majoring in Anglo-American Literature. She finished her Master of Education specializing in English as a Second Language from UP-Visayas.

She is presently a faculty of UP-Visayas in the Division of Humanities, teaching various Literature and English courses. She also serves as faculty resource for the university’s Language Program Office teaching English to foreign students.

Bettina Joyce P. ILAGAN is an instructor at the Department of Languages and Mass Communication of the College of Arts and Sciences, Cavite State University. Among the courses she has taught are communication theory, communication research, advanced communication skills, writing in the disciplines, and study and thinking skills. She has also handled an English proficiency course for Koreans. She finished her BA Organizational Communication (cum laude) in UP Manila, and MA Communication Arts in UP Los Baños.

Bonifacio T. CUNANAN teaches linguistics, stylistics, language research, and postgraduate courses in the College of Education and Graduate School in Bulacan State University. He is an associate professor and a thesis evaluator in the College of Arts and Letters of the same university. In 2002, he used the metafunctions in Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar in a stylistic analysis of point-of-view in an Afro-American short story for his dissertation for a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics at the Philippine Normal University.  His line of research and interest includes stylistics, SLA research, language testing, and text linguistics.

Annalee LACUESTA-COCJIN finished her Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English at West Visayas State University, Master of Education major in English from University of the Philippines in the Visayas and earned units Ed. D. at Central Philippine University. She was an experienced high school English teacher at Assumption-Iloilo and Central Philippine, University High School and had served as Subject Area Coordinator in the English Department for SY 2008-2009.

Presently, she is an assistant professor at the Department of Languages, Mass Communications and Humanities at Central Philippine University. She also teaches Techniques in English Instruction at the School of Graduate Studies, CPU. Her thorough and varied trainings and teaching experience have equipped her to be an effective and committed educator.

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Dulcinea R. LAFORTEZA is a faculty member of the Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Baños, where she handles courses in writing, literature and communication arts. Aside from her teaching duties, Dulce’s other involvements include serving as trainer on technical writing and doing research on the humanities. She has delivered three professional chair lectures which had been published as journal articles and is currently working on the fourth.

For about five years, Dulce also served as coordinator of the UP Open University’s Learning Center at UPLB, where she took care of the various needs of students and tutors during study sessions held in Los Baños. Aside from being coordinator, she also edited a number of course modules, and stood as tutor and faculty-in-charge of some courses offered via distance mode. Currently, Dulce is the Director of the UPLB University Publications Office. She is in charge of publishing the UP Los Baños Journal, books and instructional materials prepared and used by UPLB faculty.

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Dulce Maria V. DERIADA-MANAOG is Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, University of Philippines Visayas (UPV). She is the Faculty-in-Charge of the UPV-CAS Language Program Office as well as an affiliate faculty of UP Open University. She is also the 2009 Roberto S. Benedicto Professorial Chair Holder in Humanities. Dulce has an MA in English Language and Literature Teaching from Ateneo de Manila University. She teaches writing, communication and literature courses, and has been a regular lecturer of Language Program’s English Language Skills Enhancement Training for foreign students. She has also been involved in UPV’s Office of Continuing Education and Pahinungod’s extension activities particularly teacher training and was an active member of the Volunteer Welfare and Nurturance Team of UP Gurong Pahinungod’s Program.

Grace Bernadette T. MENDONZA is an assistant professor handling speech communication courses at UP Los Baños. She has an undergraduate degree in Communication Arts (cum laude) and a Master degree in Speech Communication.

Aside from her normal teaching load, she handles classes under the Intensive English for Foreign Graduate Students Program of the UPLB College of Arts and Sciences. She was also involved in the University’s English Summer Program for incoming college freshmen from 2002 to 2008. She also worked as a Study Tutor for the Open University

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Jerry R. YAPO is an assistant professor and current Chair of the Humanities Department of the College of Arts and Sciences in UP Los Baños. He usually handles courses in literature, writing and communication arts both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is executive producer of UPLB Samasining, an integrative arts program based in his department. He also serves as project manager of English Plus, an intensive English course for international students. He is Co-Chair of the Arts and Humanities Cluster of UPLB’s General Education Program.

Jerry finished his BA Communication Arts (cum laude) in UP Los Baños, and his MA Communication (journalism) in UP Diliman. He has published journal articles in Media Asia, Philippine Studies, and UPLB Journal. He has delivered four professorial chair lectures, and is working on his fifth on strengthening culture through the arts in UPLB. Jerry was the recipient of UPLB’s Outstanding Teacher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1996.

Karen Y. VARONA teaches English, Communication, and Speech subjects at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV), Iloilo. She is currently completing the final requirements for a degree in M.A. in Media Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, in addition to a degree in M.Ed. in English (as a Second Language) which she completed at UPV (Iloilo) in 2003. Ms. Varona also teaches English to Korean students under the University’s Language Program and has several years experience in (English language) broadcast media.

Kevin Peter Amado Pison PIAMONTE is Associate Professor 4 at the University of the Philippines Visayas. He finished his BA broadcast Communication at the same university and his MA English Language Teaching at the University of Warwick, England on a British Council Scholarship Program.

He teaches communication courses on writing, reading, listening and oral communications as well as higher communication courses specifically in Communication and Media Studies.
Currently, he is also teaching M.A. English Language Teaching program in Thailand and Hong Kong under the transnational education project of International Academy of Management and Economics and St. Robert’s International Academy.

Leilani Fatimah Ledesma TROMPETA is currently the officer-in-charge of the Department of Languages, Mass Communication and Humanities of Central Philippine University, Iloilo City, Philippines. She graduated from Central Philippine University with a BA in English degree, and did her MA in English Language Teaching at the Institute for English Language Education (IELE), Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand as a scholar of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA). She has been an invited speaker and resource person at several international conferences, including the MICELT in Malaysia and the workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia sponsored by SEAMECO/SEAMEO QITEP. Her main interests lie in the areas of language and literature interface, ESL/EFL teaching and learning, creative pedagogy, and materials development.

Loise Anne C. AQUINO is an instructor at the Department of Humanities of the College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Baños. She regularly handles courses in College English and College Writing in English. She has also taught a module for UPLB’s English Plus, an intensive course for Korean students. She first sought employment as a customer service associate with Sykes Asia. Loise finished BA Communication Arts (cum laude) in UPLB, and is presently enrolled in MA Communication Arts and bent on finishing a thesis on computer-mediated discourse.

Mabini De Guzman DIZON is an assistant professor at the English Division of the Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Baños. She teaches English and scientific/technical writing courses in the University. She is currently the coordinator of the University’s Language Instruction Towards Excellence (LITE) Program which handles the Intensive English Course for International Graduate Students.

Mabini is author of a chapter in two books published by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), namely: National Scientists of the Philippines, 1978-1998, Volume 1 (Textbook for High School and College Students) and Filipino Heroes of Science: 1978-1998, Volume II (Children’s Version/Textbook for Elementary Pupils). She has also produced two instructional manuals in scientific/technical writing as part of a UPLB Foundation, Inc Faculty Grant. Currently, she is working on a UPLB chair lecture on Management of Student Academic Records and Its Application on User-Centered Decision Support System. Mabini finished her MS Development Communication in UPLB. In March 1999, she was recognized as UPLB’s Outstanding Teacher in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. She had also been the College Secretary of the CAS from December 2006 to 2009.

Paolo Nino VALDEZ (PhD, Philippine Normal University)  is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines. His dissertation on the cultural dimensions of codeswitching was a finalist in the Christopher Brumfit Outstanding Dissertation Award 2008 sponsored by Cambridge University Press. His research interests are in the areas of ELT, critical pedagogy, bilingualism and contemporary sociolinguistics. His publications have appeared in the RELC Journal, Philippine Journal of Linguistics, ACELT Forum, Philippine ESL Journal and Reflections in English Language Teaching, and are forthcoming in Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Journal of Language and Social Psychology and Readings on Language Studies.

Sharlene G. GOTICO earned her Bachelor of Arts major in Mass Communication degree, cum laude, from Central Philippine University (CPU), Iloilo City in 2001. In 2002, she joined the teaching force of the Department of Languages, Mass Communication and Humanities (DLMCH) of CPU. In 2006, she finished her Master of Arts major in English Language and Literature Teaching (MAELLT) degree at the Ateneo de Manila University under a scholarship from the Commission on Higher Education- Higher Education Development Program.

She teaches mass communication, grammar, speech, and literature courses and is currently the Mass Communication Program Coordinator of the DLMCH.

William R. REMOLLO received his AB English (magna cum laude) in Silliman University and MA Communications Research in UP Diliman.  He began his teaching career at Central Mindanao University, and then moved to UP Tacloban and UP Los Baños back in the eighties and nineties.  Also he had worked at the Bahaí World Centre in Haifa, Israel for 15 years (1994-2009) as communication analyst and public relations officer.  He is, at present, an assistant professor at the Humanities Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Baños.  He currently teaches English and Communication courses. 

Willi is designing and developing classroom activities for Freshman English that serve to build up the students' understanding of the importance of context and break down any concrete distinction between vocabulary and grammar that they might have.    

Brad BLACKSTONE is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore, and Chief Editor of ELTWorldOnline.com. Currently, Brad coordinates and teaches a communication skills course for science and engineering students. Prior to coming to Singapore, Brad developed and implemented communication training programs for companies such as Linksys and General Motors, and he taught composition, EAP and communication skills in universities in Japan, Malaysia, Portugal and the United States. Brad received CELC’s Teaching Excellence Award for Academic Year 2007/2008.

Peggie CHAN is Senior Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore.  Peggie teaches Critical Thinking and Writing to Engineering students, Professional Communication to Design and Environment students, and Evaluating Academic Arguments, a General Education Module to students across the university. Peggie is actively involved in the design and development of ELT materials not only for undergraduates but for the university’s non-academic professional staff, specifically materials on workplace writing and oral presentations. She also develops and teaches materials on workplace competence for learners outside the university. Peggie is a recipient of the National University of Singapore Excellent Teachers Award in Academic Year 2007/2008.

Peggie is active in the international conference circuit, and has co-authored ELT books both for secondary students in Malaysia and Singapore. Her most recent publication is a co-authored book- Communicating in the University Culture.

Happy GOH is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore.  Happy has taught various language courses for different types of learners and purposes.  She is currently teaching communication skills courses for business, computing, engineering and science students. Happy has presented at the International Association of Applied Linguistics World Congress (AILA) and other conferences on learner autonomy, assessment, reading and writing. Her publications include Effective College Writing: A Process Genre Approach, 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill) and Enhancing Effective Communication among NUS Pharmacy Undergraduates–An Intercollegiate Collaboration (CDTL Brief).

HO Poh Wai is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. She teaches communication skills and academic English courses to undergraduates as well as pre-matriculated foreign students. Poh Wai has co-authored papers in ELT-related journals on peer evaluation as a tool to encourage independent learning in report writing as well as oral presentations.

Radhika JAIDEV is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. She teaches Advanced Business Communication to International MBA students at the NUS Business School and Critical Thinking and Writing to undergraduate Engineering students. Before joining CELC/ NUS, she served as the Head of Programme for Special English Language Projects and two core University-wide English language courses at the SIM University. Currently, she is also the Vice-President of the Singapore Tertiary English Teachers’ Society.

KC LEE is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. KC teaches basic writing and communication skills courses and has been actively involved in the design and development of ELT materials. KC received the National University of Singapore Excellent Teachers Award in Academic Year 2006/2007.

KC has published papers in ELT-related journals and co-authored a number of books including Zooming in: An integrated English course(Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press),The Science of Effective Communication in the Workplace (Pearson). The most current publication is Effective College Writing: A Process Genre Approach, 2^nd edition (McGraw-Hill).

Meng Leng LIM is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore.  Currently, she is teaching Business Communication.  She has taught writing and communication skills courses for the undergraduates as well as English for graduate students. Meng Leng has also published papers related to learners’ perceptions and motivation.  These articles include “Oral presentations - Perceptions of Chinese students” in The English Teacher, “Crossing the communication hurdle For Asian females in the classroom context” in RELC Guidelines, and “Re-educating our hearts: Reflections on teaching low-performing English Language learners” in Reflections on English Language Teaching.  She has also published a short story “A pair of Chopsticks” in Yuan Yang, A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing, Hong Kong University.

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Norhayati ISMAIL has been a lecturer with the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) for about 12 years. She has taught business communication courses to both undergraduate and graduate students, both local and international. She has also conducted training on oral presentation and intercultural communications skills for working professionals. She currently coordinates a business and technical communication course for undergraduates in the School of Computing.

James STEPHEN is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore.  He teaches Critical Thinking and Communication classes at the Faculty of Engineering as well as at the School of Computing. James received CELC's Teaching Excellence Award in 2006/2007. 

T. Ruanni F. TUPAS is Senior Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. He is the 2009 Andrew Gonzalez Distinguished Professorial Chair Holder in Linguistics and Language Education (Linguistic Society of the Philippines), and a 2008 National Book Award Finalist for the edited volume, (Re)making society: The politics of language, discourse and identity in the  Philippines (University of the Philippines Press, 2007). His forthcoming publications include invited papers on language and development in the Philippines (AILA Review, John Benjamins, Lim & Low, eds.), language, class and ethnicity in Singapore (English Language in education and societies across Greater China, Multilingual Matters, Feng, ed.), and the politics of norms in ELT (The Routledge handbook of World Englishes, Kirkpatrick, ed.).

DANG Thi Minh Tam is an academic leader, Foreign Language Department, Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI). She supervises all staff involved in the English degree programme, training English-Vietnamese translators and interpreters.

Tam teaches communication skills, business skills and western cultures for undergraduates. She has also been an active member of the department academic board, and involved in several projects to improve the quality of teaching English at her university.

DINH Cong Triet is a specialist in English language Teaching and Learning of the Department of Education and Training (DOET) of Can Tho City, Vietnam.

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DUONG Thi Phi Oanh is a senior lecturer at Can Tho university. Oanh teaches Methodology and Language Skills in School of Education and The Foreign Language Center of Can Tho University. Oanh has worked specifically on teacher training, trainer training across the curriculum, and language syllabus design.

Oanh has co-published The English Language Teaching Methodology (Hanoi, 2003). Her forthorthcoming publication with other authors is Learning Breakthrough (a book for non- English major students in Vietnam).

She co-authored a number of reference books for secondary school students of English in Vietnam, namely Designing achievement tests for English 11, Designing achievement tests for English 9, Designing achievement tests for English 6 – Education Publish House (2007, 2008), Vietnam.

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LE Huu Ly is Lecturer in English and Deputy Head , English Education Department, School of Education, and director of English Speaking at Can Tho University, Vietnam. He received his MA in TESOL from Southern Illinois University in the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship (2005-2007). Ly teaches Listening–Speaking, Pronunciation, Reading, Writing and Public Speaking. He also works as a teacher trainer and has been actively involved in ELT material development. Ly has co-authored Learning Breakthrough 3 (a book for non- English major students in Vietnam).

Tran Quynh LE is a lecturer and Deputy Head of English Division 1, Faculty of English Pedagogy, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Le has been teaching General English for seven years now and has four years experience in teaching translation and Interpretation to third year students. She gained her MA degree at VNU in 2006.

Le is co-author of a textbook for first year students, several reference books for secondary students and a newly published handbook for primary children. Currently, she is participating in a project of the British Council in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Training in promoting English primary teaching and learning as a primary teacher trainer.

LE Xuan Mai is a lecturer in English and deputy head of the English Education Department, School of Education, Can Tho University (CTU), Vietnam. She teaches English language skills for English major and non-English major students at CTU for 7 years. She has been involved in ELT training workshops as a trainer for teachers of General English at CTU, and for high school teachers in the Mekong Delta.

Mai has co-authored Learning Breakthrough 3 (a book for non- English majored students in Vietnam), and she has also compiled one of the writing courses for English freshmen at CTU.

NGO Thi Trang Thao has an M.A in TESOL and is a lecturer in English at the English Education Department, School of Education and at the Center for Foreign Languages at Cantho University, Vietnam.

She teaches Writing, Reading, and Research Methods in English Language Education and English Language Studies. Her academic interests include curriculum, ELT materials development and ESL teaching methodologies.

Bui Thi Cao NGUYEN has been a teacher of English for over 15 years. She has a B.A in Vietnamese Literature, and she is now doing her M.A in TESOL at Can Tho University.

She is one of the key teachers at Dong Thap Education and Training Service. She is experienced in teaching Reading, Writing, Speaking-Listening skills at the Center of Foreign Languages, Dong Thap Province, South Vietnam.

PHAM Thi Thanh Thuy (Thuy Pham) is a lecturer in the National Economics University, Hanoi. She teaches General English (especially writing, listening), and ESP (finance and banking, business management, international business). She gained her Ph.D in 2008 in linguistics -- discourse analysis. Thuy Pham received an Excellent Teachers Award in Academic Year 2008-2009, and Students’ Most Favourite Teachers Award in Academic Year 2008-2009.

Thuy Pham has published papers in hedging, academic genre and register. Now she is interested in testing and ELT materials development. Her upcoming paper is on “Need analysis -- gap bridging between ELT classroom and workplace”.

TIEU Thanh Thuy was a lecturer in English from 1991 to 2002. She taught Reading and Grammar. Since 2002, she has worked as a teacher trainer. She is Director of Teaching and Learning Centre of Tra Vinh University. She has conducted series of workshops for TVU staff and has been also involved in ELT materials development at Tra Vinh University for 9 years.

She has an M.Ed from the University of Technical Education HCM, Vietnam. Her main research interests are in the areas of learner-centred teaching methods, classroom assessment techniques and material development.

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Vũ Mai TRANG (MA ELT Distinction, Nottingham University, UK) is Vice Dean, Faculty of English Teacher Education, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Ha Noi.

Trang has extensive experience working as English teacher and teacher trainer and is the co-developer of several teaching methodology materials for pre-service teachers at ULIS-VNU and in-service teachers for Vietnam’s MOET and Hanoi DOET training programs, while enjoying giving papers at a number of ELT conferences. She has published two translated books on literature, and her recent co-authored ELT book is Learning English: A Handbook for Primary Students and Their Parents (Vietnam Education Publishing House, 2009).

TRUONG Nguyen Quynh Nhu is a senior lecturer at Cantho University. She teaches Language Skills and English for Specific Purposes in the School of Education and Center for Foreign Languages of Cantho University. She has also worked as a teacher trainer in English Language Teacher Training program at Cantho University. Her main interest is language syllabus design.

ONG Tiong Tai started work in Bata Shoes in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia and since then has traversed through other workplaces in various industries like the semiconductors, the consumers, the automotive and education. The highlights of his work experiences are in the following companies: Electronics Malacca and Seremban; Toyota Assembly Services, Shah Alam, Selangor; The Lion Group, Malaysia and China; Perodua, the Malaysian Second National Car; and Sepang Institute of Technology, Klang, Selangor. Mr Ong received his MA in Management from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines.

Brian TOMLINSON is Visiting Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University. He has worked in Japan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, UK, Vanuatu and Zambia, and has given presentations in over fifty countries. He is Founder and President of MATSDA and has published many articles and books (e.g. Discover English, Openings, Superbird, Materials Development in Language Teaching, Developing Materials for Language Teaching, Developing Language Course Materials, Language Acquisition and Development: Studies of Learners of First And Other Languages and English Language Learning Materials). He is currently working on a book with Hitomi Masuhara which reports the results of longitudinal research into materials development and on Score with English, an English through football course. Brian has also worked as a football coach and loves to travel, to listen to jazz, to read and write fiction and to experience ‘new’ food and drink. He now works freelance from his home in Birkdale, Merseyside.

Shameem RAFIK-GALEA (PhD) is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She has a degree in Linguistics and an MA in TEFL from Southern Illinois University, USA, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (specializing in ESP) from Leicester University, UK. Her primary research interests are mainly in the area of Languages for specific purposes, in particular, language in organizations and organizational communication/discourse. She has led a number of research on language in the workplace such as “Language use and communication practices in Agricultural organizations”, “Language use in the Malaysian Tourism sector”, “Language Use in Bursa Malaysia (Malaysia’s main exchange holding company)”, and “Communication among frontline employees in the Aviation Industry”. She is presently conducting studies on “Language use and communication in the manufacturing and contracting industry”. Shameem’s other research interest is in second language learning, and ELT materials design. She has published and presented papers both internationally and locally. Her most recent publications include “Communicating at the Workplace: Insights into Malaysian electronic business discourse” with Hadina Habil, in Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini & Maurizio Gotti (eds.), Asian Business Discourse(s), and “Code switching in organizational email discourse", in Maya Khemlani David, James McLellan, Shameem Rafik-Galea, & Ain Nadzimah Abdullah (eds.), Code Switching in Malaysia, Peter Lang.

Tim McNAMARA is Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne. Building on a career as an EFL/ESL teacher and teacher trainer in Australia and the United Kingdom, Tim has taught Applied Linguistics at Melbourne since 1987. His research interests are in language testing, language and identity, language teaching, languages for specific purposes and the history of applied linguistics. Tim's language testing research has focused on performance assessment, theories of validity, the use of Rasch models, and the social and political meaning of language tests (he has recently published on the misuse of language tests in assessing the claims of asylum seekers). His work on language and identity has focused on the impact of postructuralist approaches to identity and subjectivity, and he has a particular interest in the writings on language of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Tim is the author of Language Testing (OUP, 2000) and co-author (with Carsten Roever) of Language Testing: The Social Dimension (Blackwell, 2006). He has acted as a consultant with Educational Testing Service, Princeton where he worked on the development of the speaking sub-test of TOEFL iBT; he was also one of the original developers of IELTS. Tim is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has served on the board of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Measurement, TESOL Quarterly and the International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Kenneth PINTO is an Arts (Media & Communications) graduate from the University of Melbourne. He has been promoting and facilitating the use of blogs and wikis in education at the National University of Singapore since 2005. Kenneth also monitors online developments to explore their possible applications in teaching and learning. He advocates the liberation of content via Creative Commons and is interested in photography, heritage and armchair sports.

Walter LEE is an entrepreneur who founded a number of companies and small and medium enterprises in Southeast Asia offering products and services ranging from Food & Beverage, public relations and publishing to exporting of seafood and premium food products.

Besides running his many businesses, Walter also travels and gives talks frequently to universities, government agencies and private associations on marketing, entrepreneurship and food related topics. He is a food designer, food columnist in a leading Thai newspaper and is a celebrity chef who hosts his own TV cooking programme on a weekly basis in Thailand.

Walter is effectively competent in five languages, namely English, Mandarin, Bahasa Malaysia, Japanese and Thai. He is currently active in establishing the “Zy Movement Foundation”, a Thailand-based NGO, dedicated to educating, empowering and enabling physically disabled children to have a more independent, wholesome and barrier free living.

Eng-Sing SOON is Director of Leadership and Learning, UBS AG. UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, which employs more than 70,000 people around the world and serves a discerning, international client base with its wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses. Eng Sing is based in UBS Hong Kong and is responsible for education and training of the Investment Bank, Asset Management and Corporate Centre for the Asia Pacific region. He has over 10 years of experience in talent management, learning and development and campus recruitment, primarily within the financial industry. Eng-Sing has a strong passion for human capital development and Asian cultures. He has worked and lived in a number of Asian countries including Singapore, China, and Malaysia, and facilitated management workshops throughout Asia. He is a certified practitioner for several personality, talent assessment, and competency development tools. Eng Sing has an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

Michelle YEO has more than 18 years of experience in the service and tourism industry in both public and corporate sectors; Michelle’s areas of expertise are in the operations, and human resource development areas.

In her regional role, she was actively involved in operations management, recruitment and selection of new talents to manage the start-up operations in Philippines, Taiwan, China and Malaysia. In her current portfolio, Michelle is part of the HRD team driving the talent management plan and recruitment of new candidates for their Management Associate Programme.

Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary, Graduate Diploma in Training & Development and her other qualifications include Singapore Workforce Development Agency's Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA).

Alfredo Y. ALAS-AS was former Relationship Manager for Corporate Deposit Sales Segment, Vismin-Panay of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI). He also served as Branch Manager for three different branches of the same bank from 1991-2005. He was also the president of Ayala Business Club-Western Visayas, Iloilo Bankers Association, and Rotary Club of Iloilo West. He is now retired, and resides with his family in Pavia, Iloilo.

Manuel Martinez GRUENBERG is Operations Coordinator for The Grand Dame Hotel, Emilion Specialty & Restaurants, and JD Bakery Cafés and JD Bakeshops. He is also the Vice President of Iloilo Conventions and Visitors Bureau (ICVB). A graduate of San Beda College, with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, major in Management, Manny was also the former General Manager of Eon Centennial Plaza Hotel in Iloilo, and Lailai Garden Hotel in Manila.

Rebecca HALES is the Senior ELT Development Manager for British Council, Vietnam. She has worked on teacher training and trainer training projects in Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Vietnam.

She is currently involved in a number of projects to support Vietnamese teachers of English, including the Primary Innovations Project. This project aims to create a cadre of Primary English Language Specialists from a number of tertiary institutions.

Eko Suseno HENDRO completed his Magister of Management from Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia. He has also completed a number of non-formal education in Business and Marketing at various institutions in Indonesia. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, SatyaWacana University, Salatiga from 2001 to the present, and also Managing Director of HR Spirit from 2004 to the present. He has been a counter part of some provincial government offices such as the Office of Culture and Tourism, Trade and Industry, Financial Corporation, etc. He has conducted many training activities for various companies throughout Indonesia and his research experiences cover a wide range of areas in Business and Marketing. He is also a frequent speaker at seminar and conferences in Business and Marketing.

Rowena HERNAEZ-CASTROis a Business Psychology graduate of University of the Philippines, Diliman. After college, she taught at Iloilo Doctor’s College. She started as Hiring Officer at ePLDT Ventus in 2004, then moved up as Human Resource Manager.

HUYNH Thi Anh Thu works as Assistant Director-General, for Langco Green Village Joint Venture Company, specialising in hospitality. She has 6 years experience in this field. Her company involves general planning for eco-tourism and convalescence area in Langco, Thua Thien Hue Province, and assisting the Provincial Administrators in calling and dealing with international investment for this area. In addition, she put her hands in set-up, management and running of one of those properties on Langco beach, namely Nirvana Spa & Resort, a 5 star establishment. She is now also responsible for the recruitment of the resort’s human resource.

Julia is Director of Sales, Hotel Ciputra, Semarang. She was Assisstant Sales & Convention Manager, Marketing Communication Manager, Public Relations Manager, Sales & Marketing Manager of Hotel Ciputra, Semarang.

Julia was awarded Best Achievement in 2007, and Best Performance for Swiss-Belhotel Executive Card Membership in 2008. Her professional memberships include Secretary of Indonesia Australia Business Council and Member of Indonesia Marketing Association.

LE Quoc Minh worked as a world news editor at the Vietnam News Agency, the only wire news service in the country, before his four-year stay in Japan as an expert in humanities for the Radio Japan, NHK World. Coming back early 2000, Minh was a senior editor for VNA’s news department for foreign service where he developed a news website for the agency. He became acting director of the department since June 2008 and at the same time editor-in-chief of VietnamPlus at www.vietnamplus.vn which delivers news about Vietnam and the world in four languages. Dedicated to journalism training, Minh runs his personal five-year-old website – Vietnam Journalism, the most popular Vietnamese language website on journalism training, and gives personal annual scholarships to journalism students at Hanoi University.

Djoemadi PAWIRO, He graduated from English Department, SatyaWacana University, Salatiga, in 1975. He is now a Parts Division General Manager of ALTRAK, a company specializing in heavy equipment business in Jakarta. He has been involved in manpower development, designing programs and training handbooks for parts people. He is currently engaged in fostering further growth through product expansion.

Hazel P. VILLA is a freelance journalist based in Iloilo City, Philippines. She is a Visayas correspondent of the country’s number one national broadsheet, Philippine Daily Inquirer and a contributor to the community paper, Panay News. After graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Secondary Education degree (major in English) from the West Visayas State University, she proceeded to a journalism and teaching career.

Ms. Villa earned her Master of Journalism degree with distinction grades from Bond University in Queensland, Australia in February 2009 as a Fellow of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program. Media Asia, an Asian Mass Communication Quarterly published by the Asian Media Information and Communication Center based in Singapore published Ms. Villa’s academic paper, “Blog Defamation and Jurisdiction Issues: The Brian Gorrell Case” in their Special Issue in 2009. She also lectures and gives workshops on journalism and writing to elementary, high school, and college students as well as government information officers.

Invited Speaker

Brian PALTRIDGE is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. He is author of Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings (John Benjamins, 1997), Making Sense of Discourse Analysis (AEE Publishing, 2000), Genre and the Language Learning Classroom (University of Michigan Press, 2001), Discourse Analysis (Continuum, 2006) and with Sue Starfield, Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language (Routledge, 2007).

He has recently completed a book titled Teaching Academic Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2009) with colleagues at the University of Sydney and, with Aek Phakiti, an edited volume titled Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (Continuum, 2010).

His forthcoming books include New Directions in ESP Research, editedwith Diane Belcher and Ann Johns (University of Michigan Press, 2011) and, with Ken Hyland, an edited volume titled Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis (Continuum, 2011). With Sue Starfield, he is editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, the EA Journal, the Taiwan International ESP Journal and the Chinese Journal of ESP, and general editor for the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

Panel of Scholars

CHNG Huang Hoon has degrees in Philosophy (Honours) and English Language (MA), both from the National University of Singapore, and in Linguistics (PhD, University of Texas-Austin, USA). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.

Her research interests include gender, ideology and identity construction. Her publications on the subject of gender include the book, Separate and Unequal: Judicial Rhetoric and Women’s Rights (2002, John Benjamins, Amsterdam) and several articles including ’We women aren’t free to die’: Transacting sexualities in a feminism classroom in Singapore (2004, Critical Asian Studies) and The politics of representation: Negotiating crisis in a feminism classroom (2007, Australian Feminist Studies, both co-authored with Chitra Sankaran). She has also contributed articles on identity construction, including 'You see me no up’: Is Singlish a problem (2003, Language Problems and Language Planning) and Celebrating Singapore’s development: An analysis of the millennium stamps(2004, in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, Lynne Young and Claire Harrison, eds.).

Huang Hoon is currently the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CDTL) at her university and is on leave from her department for the duration of this appointment.

HU Guangwei holds a Ph.D. and is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics with the English Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Dr Hu also serves as Assistant Head overseeing the Master of Arts, Master of Education, and Ph.D. programmes offered by his academic group. He teaches courses in research methodology, psycholinguistics, second language studies, and language assessment in the MA (Applied Linguistics), MEd (English Language) and Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching programmes. In addition, he supervises MA dissertations and Ph.D. theses in a number of research areas.

Dr Hu’s research interests include academic discourse, bilingualism and bilingual education, early biliteracy practices and acquisition, language curriculum development, language learner strategies, language policy, metalinguistic awareness, and professional development of ESL/EFL teachers. His research in these areas has appeared in major academic journals of applied linguistics, educational psychology and educational research, such as British Journal of Educational Psychology, Instructional Science, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Language Policy, Research in the Teaching of English, Review of Educational Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Teachers College Record, and TESOL Quarterly.

Dr Hu has been invited to review submissions for 18 international refereed journals, among which are Language, Culture and Curriculum, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Teacher Education, Language Learning, Language Policy, Language Teaching, Learning and Individual Differences, Sociology of Education, and TESOL Quarterly. He is also an invited manuscript reviewer for the Encyclopedia of Language and Education (2nd ed.) published by Springer.

LOW Ee-Ling is the Associate Dean for Programme & Student Development (Office of Teacher Education) at the National Institute of Education, Singapore and an Associate Professor of English Language & Literature. She was previously the Sub-Dean for Degree Programmes from 2004-2009.

From 2008-2009, she served as Chair of the Secretariat of NIE’s Programme Review & Enhancement (PRE) initiative, which culminated in NIE’s Teacher Education Model for the 21st Century (TE21) and is currently a co-chair of the Programmes Core Team for the TE21 implementation steering group.

Ee-Ling obtained her PhD in Linguistics (Acoustic Phonetics) from the University of Cambridge, U.K. under the Nanyang Technological University -- National Institute of Education Overseas Graduate Scholarship. In 2008, she won the Fulbright Advanced Research Scholarship which she spent at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. She was a visiting professor at the Department of Linguistics at Chulalongkorn University in June 2008. She is a Centre Fellow for the Research Centre for Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies appointed by the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIE) and serves as the external BA programme Examiner for their joint BA programme in Applied Linguistics with China.

Ee-Ling has served as a consultant to undergraduate programme development for the Emirates College for Advanced Education and been involved in funding requests and project management internationalisation work in the Temasek Foundation-NIE Educational Leaders Programme for Vietnam which aims to upgrade the quality of educational leadership in Vietnam.

Ee-Ling is currently the Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA), President of the Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics, an editorial board member of the Regional Language Centre international journal, one of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association of Singapore, a national committee of the Speak Good English Movement in Singapore, President of the St Joseph’s Convent Alumnae (SJCA) and an Executive Committee member of the Fulbright Association of Singapore. She serves as Strand Leader in the institute’s overall research agenda on Initial teacher preparation and is an advisor to the Teacher Education section of the Teachers’ bi-monthly publication, SINGTEACH.

She has published several books on English Linguistics and Acoustics Phonetics and many journal articles and book chapters on speech rhythm, stress and intonation, World varieties of English and also on Initial Teacher Education.

Willy A RENANDYA is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Vietnam. He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he also serves as Head of the Teachers’ Language Development Centre .

Prior to his current position, he taught at SEAMEO RELC, Singapore, where he also served as Head of the Department of Language Education and Research.

Willy has published articles and books on various topics, including an edited book entitled Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice with Jack C. Richards, published by Cambridge University Press (2002, 2008). He is also co-editor (with Jack C. Richards) of a language teacher resource series, called the RELC Portfolio Series, which has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish. His latest publication Teacher, the tape is too fast – Extensive listening in ELT (co-authored with Thomas S.C. Farrell) appeared in the ELT Journal (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is currently working on an edited volume entitled Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International Language, to be published by Routledge International.

Currently, Willy serves as review editor of the ELTWO, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, Reading in a Foreign Language (as occasional reviewer), RELC Journal, and TEFLIN Journal.

WU Siew Mei teaches English and communication courses at the Centre. Her research interest stems from related English language classroom issues including investigations into the nature of academic writing, objective testing in large scale English language proficiency assessment and the validation of test descriptors. Her publications analyse the linguistic construction of writer voice and stance in academic texts written by novice writers. She has published in various journals including Reflections on English language Teaching, the Regional English Language Centre Journal, PROSPECT ( An Australian TESOL Journal) and English for Academic Purposes Journal. She has also served as the Chief Editor for the Centre’s Second International Symposium Proceedings and has done invited reviews for various international journals, including the Journal for Second Language Writing. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board for the on-line Journal of the NUS Teaching Academy.

LEE Kooi Cheng

T. Ruanni F. TUPAS