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Hans Mol has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, director of studies, producer, and author. He is coordinator of the Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest Group (YLT-SIG) for IATEFL. He has written, co-authored, and contributed to many courses and resources for young learners, teens, young adults, and adults, for general English and specific purposes. He is published globally and regionally (see www.eflwriters.com); his publications include Real English, Take Shape, Shape Up, Next Stop, Way Ahead, Brainwave, New Inspiration, Realtime, All Right, iRead – New English Readers, Grammar for Teens, Grammar for Young Learners, Magic Adventure, Business Update, English for Tourism and Hospitality. Hans has also written and produced about a hundred ELT songs.
Gemma Fanning, has worked as an EAL teacher in the UK and internationally for the past seven years. Gemma began working in a London international primary school, working with students newly arrived to the UK with little or no English and preparing them for integration into the mainstream classroom. From here, Gemma began working internationally in China, with primary and middle school ages before moving to Italy to work with teens and adults. Gemma is now settled back in the UK, working in London state schools, teaching English as an additional language. Gemma is also currently studying a masters degree at The University of York in Teaching English to Young learners.
Jooyoung “Jenny” Lee is an experienced Young Learner – English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher and teacher trainer. She received her MA in TESOL from Sookmyung Women’s University and her EdD in TESOL from Queen’s University Belfast with a focus on EFL textbooks for young learners from the perspectives of teachers, parents, and young learners. Her research interests include children learning EFL, children’s engagement in learning, and parent involvement in education.
Annamaria Pinter was trained as an English language teacher in Hungary at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest after studying linguistics and literature. She worked in Hungary for a number of years in a variety of contexts, including state primary and secondary schools, International House (IH) language schools and in a pre-service teacher training college. She completed her Masters and my PhD in ELT/Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, and is now an Associate Professor at the Centre, teaching on the Masters in ELT and the EdD programs and supervising doctoral students. Since 2000, she has taught and supervised many Korean students on both masters and doctoral programs at the University of Warwick.
Dr. Pinter's research interests include second/foreign language acquisition and learning for children of all ages. She is interested in language learning processes in both formal and informal contexts, task-based learning, developing language learning materials for children, and issues related to working with children and research subjects. Dr. Pinter’s other interest is language teacher development, in particular concerning experienced teachers and the connections between materials design and professional growth. Dr. Pinter has published widely in the area of teaching English to young learners. She is author of Children Learning Second Languages (2011) and Teaching Young Language Learners (2006).
