LID KING has extensive experience of languages teaching, materials development and examining at secondary level, and in Adult and Higher Education. As Director of CILT (1992-2003) he played a major part in expanding the work of the organisation, spearheading a range of national and European projects, including the establishment of the Comenius network and the initiation of support for Primary Languages. He was centrally involved in the development of support services on languages to British business, and the establishment of a Languages National Training Organisation in 1997, In September 2003, he took up the post of National Director for Languages with responsibility for the effective implementation of the National Languages Strategy, and its centrepiece of an entitlement to language learning for all pupils in Key Stage 2. Between 2006 and 2007 Lid worked with Lord Dearing on the “Languages Review” of which he is co-author.

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JEAN-CLAUDE BERTIN is a full professor of English language learning and teaching at the University of Le Havre, France. He is a member of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) unit IDEES-CIRTAI, where he coordinates research in the field of CALL and Distance Learning. He has published a large number of articles and reports in this field, in national as well as international journals, authored the book (Des Outils pour des Langues – multimedia et apprentissage, 2001), as well as a contribution to ICT and Language Learning – a European Perspective (Chambers, A. & Davies, G. Eds, 2001). He has presented numerous papers in a variety of international conferences, among which several CALICO symposia in the United States.
His latest publication, in collaboration with Patrick Gravé and Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes, is Second-language distance learning and teaching: theoretical perspectives and didactic ergonomics, IGI Global, USA (2010).
He is now President of the French research association GERAS (Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche en Anglais de Spécialité), Director of Asp journal (Geras, France), and has been reviewer for several scientific journals, among which Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Taylor & Francis), Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée (Ottawa, Canada), and ReCALL (Cambridge University Press).

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ANNA MAURANEN is Professor of English at the University of Helsinki. Her current research and publications focus on English as a lingua franca, corpus linguistics, and modelling spoken language. She has also published widely on academic discourses, contrastive rhetoric, and translation. She is currently running a corpus-based research project on spoken academic English as a lingua franca (the ELFA project), and a project on Global English (GlobE Helsinki). Her major publications include: English as a Lingua Franca- Studies and Findings (ed. with Ranta 2009); Linear Unit Grammar (with Sinclair 2006), Translation Universals - Do They Exist (2004), Cultural Differences in Academic Rhetoric (1993).

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