Jane Spirois Professor of Education and TESOL at Oxford Brookes University, National Teaching Fellow and Research Lead for Applied Linguistics. Her bookChanging Methodologies in TESOL(Edinburgh University Press, 2013) forms the core of the MA in TESOL in the School of Education. She has run programmes for teachers of language and literature worldwide, including Hungary, Poland, Mexico, Kenya and India. Her doctorate was on the role of creativity in language education (Bath University 2008). She is a published poet and novelist: her resources for the teaching of language through creative writing includeStorybuilding (2007) andCreative Poetry Writing(2004), with Oxford University Press. She was co-editor of the journalReading in a Foreign Languagein its first incarnation in the UK. Her most recent publication isCrossing Borders in University Learning and Teaching(Routledge 2022).

Amos Paranis Professor of TESOL at the IoE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. His background is in teaching EFL in secondary schools in Israel, and he has worked and taught internationally, including visiting appointments in Chile, Germany and Hungary. He has also written EFL coursebooks including supplementary skills books for reading comprehension, and his doctoral work looked at processing words and reading times in L1 and L2. His current areas of interest are using literature in EFL, reading in EFL and distance education, and he has published extensively in these areas, including co-editingTesting the Untestable in Language Education(with Lies Sercu, Multilingual Matters, 2010) and co-authoring theTeachers' Handbook Literature(with Pauline Robinson, OUP, 2016). He is a tutor on the free MOOC, Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach.He is the book reviews editor of theELT Journaland co-convenor of the AILA research network,Literature in Language Learning and Teaching (LiLLT).