Alan Pulverness is an Associate Trainer with the Norwich Institute for Language Education, and Editor of IATEFL Conference Selections. He has worked on language-and-culture materials projects for the British Council in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. He has written a number of ELT textbooks, including the award-winning Macmillan Short Course Programme. His most recent publications are Right Now 1 & 2 (OUP 2000; 2001), Changing Skies: The European coursebook for advanced learners (Swan 2001) and “Materials for Cultural Awareness” in Developing Materials for Language Teaching (Continuum 2003). In 2002 and 2003 he was Co-chair of the British Council Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature.
Csilla Hos is ELT project manager in British Council Hungary. She is one of the co-authors of Zoom in on Britain and Hungary (Swan 2001), a language course book based on an intercultural approach to ELT. She has been involved in the development of the website “for interculturally-minded teachers and learners” and has designed an in-service methodology course for EFL teachers focusing on teaching language-and-culture. Csilla has taught in state schools in the former Yugoslavia and Hungary and has facilitated professional development events for teachers and teacher educators in Hungary and the region. Her main interest lies in the educational potential of foreign language learning.
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