Beginners [antikvár]

The author and series editorPeter Grundy has taught in schools in Britain and Germany, has worked in higher education as a teacher trainer, and since 1979 has been a lecturer at the University of Durham, where he teaches applied and theoretical linguistics to undergraduates and postgraduates and English for Academic Purposes to the University's overseas students. He has had considerable experience of language teaching and teacher training on summer schools and seminars in Britain and overseas stretching back over more than twenty years. He is currently on leave of absence from Durham, teaching at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the author of Newspapers, in this series (OUP 1993), as well as Doing Pragmatics, Writing for Study Purposes (with Arthur Brookes) and Language through Literature (with Susan Bassnett).Alan Maley worked for The British Council from 1962 to 1988, serving as English Language Officer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China, and as Regional Representative for The British Council in South India (Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust, Cambridge. He is currently Senior Fellow in the Department of Enghsh Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore. He has written Literature, in this series (with Alan Duff, OUP 1990), Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning (all with Alan Duff), The Mind's Eye (with Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff), Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem (with Sandra Moulding), and Short and Sweet. He is also Series Editor for the Oxford Supplementary Skills series.