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Peter Crosthwaite Susan Hutchison
Peter has worked rn the TESOL and applied Susan Hutchison has been an ESOL teacher
linguistics fields for 13 years. His previous and examiner for more than 30 years.
experience includes writing and consultancy She has taught overseas in Italy, Hungary
work with various publishers, two sessions as and Russia. She now lives and works in
Director of Studies for language schools in the Edinburgh, Scotland as an ESOL teacher in
UK, over six years' experience in the Korean an independent school for girls. She has
EFL context, and teaching and supervision co-authored a number of course books,
experience at the University of Cambridge. He preparation and practice materials for both
is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cambridge English Language Assessment
Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), and IELTS. She has also developed online
University of Hong Kong, where he is the and interactive IELTS practice materials for
coordinator of the MA Applied Linguistics the British Council.
(MAAL) and the MA TESOL. He is currently
co-teaching the 'Second Language
Acquisition' module for both programs. Marc Loewenthal
He has worked on IELTStest preparation, Marc has been teaching for 35 years, mostly
publishing and materials development for in the UK but also abroad in Greece, Russia,
over 10 years, with 4 years of experience as Middle East, Indonesia and Pakistan. He has
a qualified !EL TS Examiner.
taught in the public sector since 1990,
mostly in further education and adult
Natasha De Souza education, and more recently on pre
sessional EAP university courses. He has
Natasha has been involved in the ELT industry been a Speaking and Writing Examiner for
for 15 years - as a teacher, Director of Studies, over 25 years and has expert knowledge of
Examiner and an Examinations Officer. IELTS requirements for university admission.
She started teaching IELTS in 2006, when
she worked on a University Pathway and
Foundation Programme for a language school Claire Wijayatilake
in Cambridge. More recently, as a Director of Claire has been teaching English since 1 9 8 8 .
Studies and an Examinations Officer, she was She spent much of her career in Sri Lanka,
responsible for giving guidance to students including 16 years at British Council,
and teachers on how the /ELT5test works and Colombo. She became an IELTS Examiner
how best to prepare for it. in 1990 and examined regularly in Colombo
and Male, Maldives for almost20years. She
Jishan Uddin worked as the IELTS Examiner Trainer for Sri
Lanka, recruiting, training and monitoring
Jishan has been an EFL teacher since 2001. examiners. She then moved into training and
He has taught on a range of courses in the UK school leadership, serving as Teacher Trainer
and Spain, including general English, exam and Principal at various international
preparation and English for Academic schools. She returned to the UK in 2013 and
Purposes (EAP) courses and is currently an worked for Middlesex University, where she
EAP lecturer and academic module leader started her materials writing career. She is
at King's College, London. He has extensive currently a Visiting Lecturer at Westminster
experience teaching IELTS preparation University, which allows her time to write.
classes to students from around the world, She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and
pa.rticularly China, the Middle East and English Language Teaching from the
Kazakhstan. He also has experience in University of Warwick.
designing resources for language skills
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development as well as exam preparation
and administration.
