Joint Coordinator Wendy Arnold Attendance at official IATEFL meetings/ other meetings Liaison with Head Office and other IATEFL SIGs contact
I now live in Las Vegas, USA, quite a change from 17 years in Hong Kong! I'm a primary teacher, teacher trainer and coursebook writer. I've written coursebooks for primaries in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia and trained teachers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. I'm particularly interested in research into teaching reading using levelled/graded reading schemes and projectwork.
	Joint Coordinator Niki Joseph Attendance at official IATEFL meetings/ other meetings Liaison with Head Office and other IATEFL SIGs contact
I live and work in Portugal running my own language school, being a teacher, trainer and a Cambridge ESOL examiner/team leader/presenter. My days are varied  - teaching English to primaries, teens and company classes. I also teach music through English to preschoolers. Over the past 17 years I've taught and trained in various countries - Egypt, Brazil, UK, S Africa & Portugal. I'm interested in lots of areas of EFL - online education, motivation in teenagers, preschool music being taught through EFL, and of course (being an examiner) assessment, evaluation & testing. I also do translations - enjoying the tranquillity compared to the primary classroom!!   Pastimes include watercolour painting, tennis , music and reading.
	Website Manager Chris Etchells contact
I'm Co-Director with my wife Sarah of English Country Schools, a British Council Accredited residential English Language summer camp organisation for children and teenagers. I enjoy computers, management, my family, music, English pedagogy and the countryside. I'm particularly interested in the teaching of English through projects and activities in the natural environment. I'm also interested in affective issues such as the effects of self-esteem, different learning styles, multiple intelligences, etc, on children's learning.
	YLSIG Business Developer Gordon Lewis contact
I was born in New York City, but spent much of my life in Germany. After finishing my studies, I worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin and eventually founded a children's language school in Berlin in 1990. In 1999, I sold the school to Berlitz and helped them build their YL programs in Germany and Europe. In 2001, I become their Worldwide Director of YL Training. It was great fun travelling around the world working with teachers. In 2004 I joined Kaplan, where I am Director of Product Development, producing materials and developing courses for YL and adults. I also write teaching materials on the side, mostly for Oxford University Press, where I have two titles in the Resource Book for Teachers Series. In 2006 a third title is due for publication- it is about teaching teenagers. I have been on the committee for 4 years. It's been great fun and very rewarding.
	Membership & Finance Officer Hans Mol  contact
I live in subtropical Northern New South Wales, Australia, with two daughters (8 and 10) on location, one daughter and foster-daughter in cyberspace (14 and 18), and one slightly removed semi-adopted ‘blown-in-by-the-wind’ daughter (21) in Sydney. I grew up in the Netherlands, where I studied English and Dutch at a 4-year teacher training college (dual major), followed by a university top-up at the end of which they gave me an MA in English Language, Literature and Professional Translation. Over the years, I’ve taught EFL at all levels, ranging from primary to secondary (junior and senior), adult, vocational and higher education (what them cloggies respectively call Universities of Professional Education and, erm, ‘real’ (?) Universities). I also did a bit of teaching in Germany and Indonesia. At the end of my teacher training I got the writing bug and wrote a series of textbooks for primary schools in Holland, Real English, of which we are now (20 years later) going to write the fifth edition … J … After that, alongside day-time jobs, I have written many a textbook for all levels imaginable, both general EFL, vocational, adult and ES(A)P, country-specific titles as well as international ones. (See: www.connexxions.com.au/publications.htm). In the meantime I moved into teaching English in higher education;  after which I became Director of Studies for one of the schools of what is now called InHolland University. I did a stint in educational EFL/ESL publishing for three years and then quickly “fled” back to education where after teaching English again for a while I became Director of Studies of the Holland International Business School in Amsterdam which took me all over Europe and gave me loads of valuable experience working with international students. In the meantime, Down Under beckoned and excellent holiday experiences led us to decide that we wanted to take a sea change and literally change seas (North Sea for Pacific). So, here we are and I am now a full-time writer and teacher trainer, running my own little business (www.connexxions.com.au), writing for publishing companies the world over, and generally doing what Tiggers do best. My pet interests in EFL are: English for young learners, especially primary (4-12); and how to make grammar fun and relevant for anybody; but I basically enjoy writing for any level and any skill. When I do not write, I paint, write/record/sing contemporary folk music and ride my white Percheron horse Big Boy a.k.a. Samson through the hills. With my partner, who’s a lecturer at the local uni, we also rent out accommodation on our property, breed horses, take people on therapeutic rides, grow our own veggies and try desperately to keep the weeds down …
	Publications Editor Janice Bland Contact
As a child I watched stretches of Epping Forest disappear to make way for London orbital motorways, so I chose to study English Literature and Drama at the distant University of North Wales, Bangor. Bangor is a tiny city in the beautiful, bilingual county of Gwynedd, sandwiched between the Snowdonia Mountains and the Irish Sea. I’ve been living in Germany for so long, the past is quite literally another country. So I’m delighted to join the IATFL YL committee, which brings me closer to the rest of the world, as well as that “other country”, once (perhaps still) my home. As to Germany, it’s become a country of contrasts, the greatest of which is – very sadly – the contrast between rich and poor. There is a lot of work to be done in education now in Germany. I am a teacher educator, at the University of Hildesheim. I specialise in language teaching didactics for the most demanding and challenging age (says me): the primary school child. I am keenly interested in using young adult and children's literature in language education. I also lecture on drama as methodology; visual and critical literacy and creative writing. I am a materials developer. I’ve published textbooks and educational software, picture books, five collections of plays for primary and secondary learners, and many articles on language education – which is how I first became involved with the IATEFL YL journal: CATS.
	Publications Editor Kerry Powell contact
	Events Co-ordinator Harry Kuchah contact
Harry Kuchah is National Pedagogic Inspector in charge of Bilingual Education in the Ministry of Basic Education in Cameroon. He is also Secretary General and Chief Convenor of the Cameroon English Language and Literature Teachers’ Association. He holds an MA in English Language Teaching for Young Learners from the University of Warwick.
	Events Co-ordinator Caroline Linse contact
	Discussion moderator Dennis Newson contact