Contributors

Melanie Butler

Melanie started teaching EFL in Iran in 1975. she worked for the BBC World Service, Pearson/Longman and MET magazine before taking over at the Gazette in 1987 and also launching Study Travel magazine. Educated in ten schools in seven countries, she speaks fluent French and Spanish and rather rusty Italian.

Gill Ragsdale

Gill Ragsdale, research news reporter, holds an RSA-Cert TEFL and has taught EFL in the UK, Turkey and Egypt. Gill also has a PhD in evolutionary psychology from Cambridge where she is currently a Teaching Associate in Biological Anthropology.

Wayne Trotman

Wayne is a teacher educator at Izmir Katip Celebi University in Izmir, Turkey. Wayne has been involved in language teaching both in the UK and overseas since 1981. He holds an MSc in TESOL from Aston University and a PhD in ELT and Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick.

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