Pete Sharma
Pete started his EFL career as a business English teacher in Madrid,
moving to Finland before returning to the UK. He worked as teacher trainer,
Director of Studies and school manager before becoming the Group teacher
training and development manager for Linguarama, a business English organisation
which is now part of the Markus Evans group. In his capacity as a member
of the Group Pedagogical Unit he inspected schools, taught writing seminars
in the Middle and Far East, and helped create and run trainer training courses.
Pete recently changed from ESP to EAP, and currently divides his time
between lecturing at Oxford Brookes University and on the Warwick University
pre-sessional courses, and writing. Pete is currently involved in writing
the Teacher’s Book for the pre-intermediate level of ‘The Business’ for
Macmillan, and contributing material to the DVD-ROM for the same course.
Pete has presented regularly at IATEFL and BESIG conferences over the
years. He is on the Macmillan Dictionary advisory committee, and is a former
editor of the BESIG newsletter. Last year, he completed his Masters in
Educational Technology and ELT at Manchester University by distance learning,
appearing in Manchester only once – on graduation day. Pete also
has the DELTA and has taken the International House Skills of Teacher Training
course and the certificate in on-line teaching (COLTE). He keeps a blog
on using technology in ELT with co-author Barney Barrett. See: www.te4be.com Pete’s
latest book as co-author is Blended Learning: using technology in and beyond
the language classroom in the prestigious Macmillan Books for Teachers
series.
Kevin Westbrook
Kevin Westbrook has been involved in teaching English as a foreign language
since 1992, mainly in Austria and Germany. He returned to England in 2005,
since when he has gained more experience in teaching EAP. Prior to that he
worked for ten years for Barclays Bank in England before deciding it was a
bad idea and doing a degree in Management Science with German Language. On
top of this BSc, he did his CELTA course in Seville and has the Certificate
in Translation from the Institute of Linguists. By the time you read this,
he should be very close to completing an MA in Applied Linguistics for Language
Teaching.
Kevin has specialised for a number of years in Business and Technical English
and has learned about IT the hard way – teaching himself. As a result,
he has a lot of sympathy for those who are near the beginning of that road
but want to learn more. He is responsible for the technical aspects of www.ebooksworld.de
and several Moodle courses. He has also made presentations on e-publishing
and technical English teaching at various conferences.
Paul East
Paul is married with three children and his hobbies include golf,
formwork and the music of William Byrd.
* DipTEB, Ind. Kfm - ESP trainer since 1990
* ELTAU President (English Language Teachers Association of Ulm/Neu-Ulm)
* Member of Toastmasters (Ulm President 2003/04)
* Coordinator of International Association of Technical English Trainers
* Founder member of EULETA (European Legal English Teachers Association)
* Member of the Arbeitskreis für Technikgeschichte, Ulm
* Member of the Ulm/Neu-Ulm Marketing Club
* Member of the BVMW (Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft Unternehmerverband
Deutschland e.V.)
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