Committee

Coordinator. ERNESTO VARGAS GIL. Ernesto is an applied linguist, educational researcher and language educator. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a Cambridge Delta qualified teacher and, as an EAP Tutor, has taught at different universities in the UK., including the University of Birmingham, University of Bristol and Imperial College London, where he still collaborates in EAP (STEM) projects. Currently, he is a Teaching Fellow in English Language in the Department of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. His main areas of research interest are
Research Methodology, particularly in relation to in-depth qualitative inquiry in educational settings; Bilingual Education and Language Policy; Language Teacher Education, with a focus on Continuing Professional Development practices in the Global South, particularly from an epistemological decolonisation perspective, and Language Teacher Research.

Email: vargasgilernesto@yahoo.com

Treasurer. GRAHAM HALL. Having previously taught English in a number of countries, Graham is Professor in Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Northumbria University, UK. He is author of Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in action (2011; 2nd edition 2017) which was winner of the 2012 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) book prize, and editor of The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching (2016). He was editor of ELT Journal from 2013-17. His own research interests focus on language teaching methodology and, more specifically, the use of the learners’ own language in the support of language learning; classroom discourse and interaction; the experiences of school students studying through English as an Additional Language; and teacher research.

Email: g.hall@northumbria.ac.uk

Publications Officer. RICHARD SMITH. Richard is Professor of ELT & Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He has worked with teachers from many countries, including as academic adviser to teacher-research mentoring schemes in Latin America and South Asia. His most recently published books are: Voices of Experience: Teaching in Low-resource Classrooms; Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching; A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research; The History of Language Learning and Teaching (3 volumes); and Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms. He was coordinator of the Research SIG from 2011–2015 and is currently co-convenor of the AILA Research Network on History of Language Learning and Teaching and chair of the International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT.

Email: R.C.Smith@warwick.ac.uk

Newsletter Co-editor. DARÍO LUIS BANEGAS. Darío is a teacher educator and curriculum developer with the Ministry of Education in Chubut, Argentina. After completing his PhD at Warwick University, he became an associate fellow with Warwick. He coordinates research programmes and lectures on ELT methodology and linguistics at two initial English language teacher education programmes. He is actively involved in teacher associations in Argentina and founded the Argentinian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Darío usually publishes on CLIL, initial teacher education, and action research to socialise what he does with his colleagues and student-teachers from Argentina. He is a visiting lecturer at universities in South America and Spain.

Email: D.Banegas@warwick.ac.uk

Newsletter Co-editor. EMILY EDWARDS. Emily is a Lecturer in Academic Language and Learning at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She recently completed her PhD in Education (TESOL) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where she is now also a Visiting Fellow. Emily has previously taught on teacher education, academic literacy and English language programs in Australia, Asia and Europe. She has also designed and coordinated courses, and she set up an action research program for English language teachers in a Sydney language school. Her research interests include teacher professional development, action research, academic language and literacy, sociocultural theory and teaching and learning in higher education.

Email: emily.edwards-1@uts.edu.au

Newsletter Co-editor. JESSICA MACKAY. Jessica Mackay (DipTEFLA, MA & PhD in Applied Linguistics) is an EFL teacher and head of teacher training and development at the Escola d'Idiomes Moderns (EIM), of the University of Barcelona. Jessica is Barcelona Area Coordinator for TESOL-Spain. She is coordinator of the ELT Research in Action conference (supported by the IATEFL ReSIG) and is co-editor of the conference publication.

Email: jmackay@ub.edu

Newsletter Co-editor. ELENA ONČEVSKA AGER. Elena is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She holds an MA in TESOL from the University of Leeds (UK) and a PhD in applied linguistics from Saints Cyril and Methodius University, where has taught since 2006. Her work involves supporting the development of pre-service EFL teachers in face-to-face and online contexts. Apart from second language teacher education and online learning, her research interests also include group dynamics, motivation, teacher wellbeing and teacher/learner autonomy.

Email: elena.oncevska@flf.ukim.edu.mk

Joint Outreach Co-coordinator. MARISOL GUZMAN COVA. Marisol is in the distance PhD in Applied Linguistics programme at the University of Southampton, U. K. She holds an MA in educational technologies and communication from the Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa (ILCE). Marisol has worked for 20 years at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP), a public university in central Mexico as language teacher, self-access facilitator, teacher educator, and ELT programme coordinator. Her research interests include teacher autonomy, creativity, teacher professional development, action research, educational technologies among others.

Email: M.Guzman@soton.ac.uk

Joint Outreach Co-coordinator. ERIC EKEMBE. Eric holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon and holds a tenure position as lecturer in the above discipline at the Higher Teacher Training College, Yaounde. He has presented papers at international conferences and was the plenary speaker for the ReSIG & GISIG 2019 joint PCE event in Africa TESOL conference in Abuja. He runs the CAMELTA Research Group. He has been Seasonal TEFL trainer for the American Peace Corps in Cameroon and has equally been TESOL International conference proposal reviewer for three years respectively. Eric’s research interest is postcolonial discourse in ELT. He has published research articles in internationally peered-reviewed journals and is co-editor of Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century Global Dispensation: Research in Language, Literature, & Education in Africa

Email: eric.ekembe@yahoo.com

Membership and Scholarship Officer. PREM PHYAK. Prem is an applied linguist and a teacher educator, with research interests in language policy, multilingualism, language ideology, critical pedagogy, teacher identity/agency and social justice in language education. He has pursued M.Ed. in English Language Education from Tribhuvan University (Nepal), MA TESOL from the UCL Institute of Education (UK) and PhD in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA). Prem has extensive experiences of working with teachers, policy makers, students, and parents on a wide range of topics such as course development, teacher training, and multilingual education, particularly in under-resourced contexts. Currently, Prem teaches at the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

E-mail: pphyak@gmail.com

Web and Digital Manager. LORETO ALIAGA. Loreto is a teacher of English and teacher educator from Chile. She holds a PhD Education (University of Leeds, U.K) where she currently works as a teaching fellow in TESOL at the MA TESOL & TESOL studies programmes. Prior to her PhD studies, she worked as a teacher educator and school teacher in Chile, and she was a TESOL Chile board member from 2009 to 2013. She is a founding member of RICELT, the Network of Chilean researchers in ELT. Her research interests are on language teacher education, language teachers' professional development and curriculum innovation.

E-mail: loreto.aliaga.salas@gmail.com

Events and Webinar Officer. CELIA V. ANTONIOU. Celia has been involved in higher education since 2011 and has been working as a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL since 2016. She's currently a Senior Teaching Fellow and dissertation supervisor at UCL, IOE and a Lecturer and Programme leader for the BA in ESL at UWS where she convenes undergraduate and postgraduate modules in TESOL and English language. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Essex, UK) and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland. Her research interests include academic literacies, practitioner research, online language learning and teaching and teacher training and development, among others.

Email: celia.antoniou@ucl.ac.uk

PCE and Events Officer. ASLI SAGLAM. Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam has been an English teacher in EAP settings for 23 years. She holds a PhD in English language education. Currently, she is a postdoc researcher at the University of Southeastern Norway. Her teacher education experience mainly includes supporting teacher research for professional development. She is the co-founder of ‘Classroom-based Research for Professional Development’ session which delivers online training for teacher researchers within the scope of TESOL’s Electronic Village Online. Her research interests focus on teacher education, integration of educational technology into instructional design, and language assessment.