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 Christine Coombe has a Ph.D in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University. She is currently on the English faculty of Dubai Men's College and works as an Assessment Leader for the Higher Colleges of Technology. She is the former Testing and Measurements Supervisor at UAE University and Assessment Coordinator of Zayed University. Christine is co-editor of the Assessment Practices volume in the TESOL Case Studies series; co-author of A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners (2007, University of Michigan Press); co-editor of Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness in EF/SL Contexts (2007, University of Michigan Press); co-editor of Language Teacher Research in the Middle East (2007, TESOL Publications) and Leadership in English Language Teaching and Learning (2008, University of Michigan Press). Christine’s forthcoming books are on task-based learning and reigniting, retooling and retiring in English language teaching.
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Don Weasenforth holds a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from the University of Southern California. His teaching experience includes teaching ESL and training teachers in the United States, France, and Russia. His professional activities include serving as newsletter editor and president of TexTESOL V, the North Texas affiliate of TESOL. He is currently the president of South Central Association for Language Learning Technology and the chair of TESOL's Affiliate Leadership Council. As researcher and instructor, he has focused most of his efforts on pragmatic analyses of student requests and use of instructional technologies.
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 Janet Giannotti
Assistant Professor, ESL
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus
Janet Giannotti has worked in higher education ESL programs for more than thirty years. For the last fifteen years she has taught in the college ESL program at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). Previously she taught in the intensive English program at Georgetown University. While her specialization at Georgetown centered on teaching beginners, bringing content rich and communicative activities to the classroom, more recently at NOVA her specialization has turned to linking reading and writing, using novels in ESL classes, and turning process writing theory into practice. She has presented frequently at both TESOL and local TESOL affiliate conferences on these topics. Janet’s work has also included administrative experience. She served as assistant director of Georgetown’s program for two years, and assistant dean for ESL at NOVA for three years. In addition, she currently serves as co-chair of the college-wide ESL discipline cluster group, working on issues concerning curriculum, placement testing, and articulation.
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 David Fay is the English Language Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He has taught and trained teachers in the United States, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Russia. His studies are in TEFL and American literature and he has conducted numerous workshops on cross-cultural studies, storytelling, drama, IT applications, integrating skills and literature. He is a strong proponent of a constructivist, enquiry-based approach that involves applying authentic material to real life needs and situations. |
 Prof. Elena Nikolayevna Solovova, Head of the FL Methodology Lab at the Foreign Languages Department of Moscow State University, Member of the the Presidium of the Research and Advisory Council of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, expert of the Federal Committee on Unified National Exam (EGE) and the leader of item-writers.
Prof. Elena Nikolayevna Solovova is a leading expert on the English as a Foreign Language Methodology. Her textbooks and publications on EFL Methodology (more than 140) are used in all Russian in-service teachers’ training centers, pedagogical Universities and secondary schools. She has been involved in national curriculum development, in designing the format of EGE, developing the concept of all-Russia linguistics and humanitarian Olympiads. She is the author of English language textbooks, readers for secondary schools of Russia
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 John Mark King graduated from The American University's TESOL program in 2003. In 2006-2007, he was the English Language Fellow in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Previously, he taught English at a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan. From 2007 to 2009, he taught in the College ESL program at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Va. His areas of specialty are academic reading and writing and cross-cultural communication. His interests include Russian language, running and writing music. To access John Mark King’s presentations and materials go to www.jorabek.com. |
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