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Tim Murphey (BA in French and German, MA in TEFL) wrote his PhD thesis in Applied Linguistics on Songs and music in language learning: an analysis of pop song lyrics and the use of song and music in teaching English as a foreign language (1989). He is also the author of Teaching One to One (1991). He taught for seven years at the English Language Institute (University of Florida); for seven years at the Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland; and has spent sixteen summers teaching and playing with an international array of children at International Summer Camp, Montana, Switzerland, where he co-ordinated the French, German, and English language courses. From 1990 to 2001 he was teaching, writing, and learning at Nanzan University in Japan. He is currently Professor of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics at Yuan Ze University, Taiwan.

Alan Maley worked for The British Council from 1962 to 1988, serving as English Language Officer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China, and as Regional Representative for The British Council in South India (Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust, Cambridge. From 1993 to 1998 he was Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore. From 1998 to 2002 he was Director of the Graduate Programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. He is currently a freelance consultant.

Among his publications are Literature (with Alan Duff, OUP 1990, in this series); Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning (all with Alan Duff), The Mind’s Eye (with Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff), Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem (with Sandra Moulding), Short and Sweet, and The English Teacher’s Voice.