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Scott Windeatt teaches in the Language Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he is Director of the MA in Media Technology for TEFL. He has taught at secondary schools in the UK, and has worked in Finland, Romania, and Austria. Other countries he has visited to give lectures and workshops include Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Spain, and Qatar. His publications include books and articles on teaching grammar, computer-assisted language learning, computers and teacher training, computer-based language testing, classroom practice and observation, task-based learning, syllabus and materials design, and self-access learning. With David Hardisty, he wrote CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) for this series in 1989.

David Hardisty worked for many years as a teacher and teacher trainer at The British Council in Lisbon and now teaches at the New University (Universidade Nova) in Lisbon. Before moving to Portugal he taught in the UK, Sudan, Spain, and Mexico. Other countries where he has given papers and workshops include the USA, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain. His publications include books and articles on computer-assisted language learning, general methodology, using the media, grammar teaching and learning, and using music in the classroom. With Scott Windeatt, he wrote CALL in this series.

David Eastment taught English in Japan and Italy before starting to specialize in the early 1980s in the application of computers to language learning. He worked for many years with the Bell Language Schools in Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies for Information Technology. He has run workshops and seminars in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America, and has written and lectured extensively on the problems and the opportunities presented by the new technology. David now works as a freelance teacher, teacher trainer, and consultant. From 1994 to 1999 he was editor of Issues, the Newsletter of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He is the author of The Internet and ELT, a report for The British Council published by Summertown Publishing.

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 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. He is currently a freelance consultant and Director of the graduate programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. Among his publications are Literature, 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), and Short and Sweet. He is also Series Editor for the Oxford Supplementary Skills series.