Longman English Interactive Authors

Michael Rost, author (Listening, Speaking)
Michael Rost has been active in language teaching, materials development, and teacher training for over 20 years, having worked in West Africa, East and Southeast Asia, the U.K., and the U.S. His most recent teaching experience has been with the M.A. program at Temple University Japan and the English Language Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Mike has been an author and series editor of several successful classroom materials series, including English Firsthand, Impact, Contemporary Topics, and Basics in Listening. He has contributed a number of articles and books on second language oral language development, including his most recent work, Teaching and Researching Listening (Longman, 2002).

Marjorie Fuchs, author (Grammar)
Marjorie Fuchs has taught ESL at New York City Technical College and LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York and EFL at the Sprach Studio Lingua Nova in Munich, Germany. She holds a Master's Degree in Applied English Linguistics and a Certificate in TESOL from the University of Wisconsin--Madison. She has authored or co-authored many widely used ESL textbooks, notably, Grammar Express, Focus on Grammar: An Intermediate Course for Reference and Practice, On Your Way: Building Basic Skills in English, Crossroads, Top Twenty ESL Word Games: Beginning Vocabulary Development, Around the World: Pictures for Practice, Families: Ten Card Games for Language Learners, and the workbooks to the Longman Dictionary of American English, the Longman Photo Dictionary, The Oxford Picture Dictionary, and the Vistas series.

Marsha Chan, author (Pronunciation)
Marsha Chan's books, videotapes, and audiotapes, including Phrase by Phrase Pronunciation and Listening in American English, Pronunciation Workout for Foreign Language Learners, and Using Your Hands to Teach Pronunciation, provide audio, visual, and kinesthetic input for learning essential elements of pronunciation. Her business, Sunburst Media, provides language learning materials, online instruction, and consulting. A faculty member of Mission College in Santa Clara, California, she teaches in the English as a Second Language Department and is involved in technology and staff development projects. Marsha earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Terra Brockman, author (Reading, Web Research assignments)
Terra Brockman is a writer, editor, publisher, and nonprofit organizer who lives in central Illinois. She lived in Japan from 1985-1990, taught English, and worked at the Daily Yomiuri. She is the author of several books, including The Job Hunter's Guide to Japan (Kodansha, 1990) and Explorations (Oxford University Press, 2000).

John Barnes, author (Vocabulary)
John Barnes is an ESL materials writer and curriculum specialist whose background includes over 30 years of teaching experience. John spent 16 years as an EFL instructor in Japan and China, including a staff position at the University of Inner Mongolia in Hohhot, Peoples' Republic of China. In addition to his EFL career, he has taught graduate courses in comparative literature, and undergraduate courses in humanities, literature, and philosophy. He is a graduate of the Universities of Nebraska (B.A., magna cum laude), Iowa (M.A. and "A.B.D."), and Arizona (M.A.).

Editors:
Sherry Preiss, Vice President of Multimedia Course Development
Irene Frankel, Editorial Director
Julie Schmidt, Senior Developmental Editor
Sharon Goldstein (Pronunciation)
Debbie Sistino (Reading, Web Research)

Authors of the Longman English Interactive Video Scripts:
Linda Burstyn and Irene Frankel, lead authors
Marjorie Fuchs and Michael Rost, consulting authors

Authors of the Longman English Interactive Quizzes and Tests:

Joan Jamieson is a Professor in the Applied Linguistics Department at Northern Arizona University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Joan is the author of several publications on English as a Second Language assessment and computer-assisted language learning.

Carol A. Chapelle is a Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition: Foundations for Teaching, Testing and Research (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Dr. Chapelle is also the editor of TESOL Quarterly.

Leslie Grant is an Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She earned her Ph.D. at Northern Arizona University.

Paula Garcia and Casey Keck are candidates in the Applied Linguistics doctoral program at Northern Arizona University.

Lia Plakans is a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Editor: Nancy Blodgett

Louis Alexander, author, Grammar Reference Guide
The late Louis Alexander was born in London in 1932. He was educated at Godalming Grammar School and London University. He taught English in Germany (1954-56) and Greece (1956-65), where he was head of the English Department of the Protypon Lykeion in Athens. He was adviser to the Deutscher Volkshochschulverband (1968-78) and contributed to the design of two important English examinations in German adult education. He was a member of the Council of Europe Committee on Modern Language Teaching (1973-78) and was one of the authors of The Threshold Level (1975) and Waystage (1977). These modern syllabuses are the basis of many communicative language courses. He was also a co-author of English Grammatical Structure (1975), a basic syllabus for grading structures for teaching/learning purposes. From 1986 to 1988, he was adviser to the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate for the Cambridge Certificate in English for International Communication. Louis Alexander passed away in June 2002.
The Grammar Reference Guide is based on his Longman English Grammar, which is the culmination of more than thirty years' work in English as a foreign language.

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