Primary Resource Books for Teachers: Projects with Young Learners

Sarah Burwood has a BA Honours degree and an RSA DTEFLA. She has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Italy. She has also been Director of Offsite Courses, Youth Programmes Co-ordinator, and Course Director for the Studio School of English in Cambridge. Until recently, she was an academic Manager for Young Learners courses at Bell Educational Trust in Saffron Walden, and she is currently working as an ESL/EFL teacher and freelance teacher trainer in Vancouver, Canada.

Helen Dunford has an MA in Applied Linguistics, a PGCE in TESOL, and an RSA DTEFLA. She has over eighteen years of teaching experience, including five years in primary English at the Ecole Française de Londres and a bilingual junior school in Lyon, France. She has worked as a teacher of young learners at the British Council in Naples, and co-ordinated training courses for teachers in Argentina, Colombia, and Bulgaria. Until 1997 she was Head of Studies of the Young Learners Department of the Bell Educational Trust in Saffron Walden. She is currently working as Academic Director of International House, Portland, Santa Monica and San Francisco. She is co-author of Projects with Young Learners.

Diane Phillips has been a teacher of social science, sociolinguistics, and English for thirty years, working with undergraduates, post-graduates, and teachers in a number of different countries. She has a PGCE, MAs, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the universities of Cambridge and London. From 1984 until 2003 she worked for the Bell Educational Trust as a teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer, and manager, most recently holding the post of Head of Academic Management. She is currently a lecturer with the Open University and an inspector for the British Council Accreditation Scheme. She is co-author of Projects with Young Learners, in Oxford University Press' Resource Books for Teachers series.