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Diane Phillips trained as a teacher and then went on to do her MA and PhD in Applied Linguistics. She has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, and Director of Studies at various schools throughout the world. She has recently been involved in the formulation of guidelines for EAQUALS inspection of centres which hold courses for young learners. She is currently working as the Head of Young Learners’ and Offsite Courses at the Bell Educational Trust, a Senior Assessor for the UCLES DTEFLA/DELTA scheme, and is a member of a working party on awards for teachers of young learners: CELTYL and DELTYL. She has been involved in the writing of several other publications, including Teaching Practice Handbook (with Gower and Walters, Heinemann 1995), and ‘Teacher Training: Observation and Feedback’ (in Learning to Train: Perspectives on the Development of Language Teacher Trainers, edited by Ian McGrath, Prentice Hall 1997).

Sarah Burwood has a BA Honours degree and an RSA DTEFLA. She has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Italy. She has also been Director of Offsite Courses, Youth Programmes Co-ordinator, and Course Director for the Studio School of English in Cambridge. Until recently, she was an Academic Manager for Young Learners courses at the Bell Educational Trust in Saffron Waiden, and is currently working as a ESL/EFL teacher and freelance teacher trainer in Vancouver.

Helen Dunford has an MA in Applied Linguistics, a PGCE in TESOL, and an RSA DTEFLA. She has over eighteen years of teaching experience, including five years in primary English at the Ecole Française de Londres and a bilingual junior school in Lyon. She has worked as a teacher of young learners at The British Council in Naples, and co-ordinated training courses for teachers in Argentina, Colombia and Bulgaria. Until 1997 she was Head of Studies of the Young Learners Department of the Bell Educational Trust in Saffron Waiden. She is currently working as Academic Director of International House, Portland, Santa Monica and San Francisco.

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. He is currently a freelance consultant. He is also Dean of the Institute of English Language Education, and Director of the graduate English Programme at Assumption University in Bangkok. He wrote Quartet (with Françoise Grellet and Wim Welsing, OUP 1982), and Literature, in this series (with Alan Duff, OUP 1990). He has also written 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).