About 'Lets Do Business' series
What
is 'Lets do Business'?
Authors of the 'Let's Do Business' Course
Editor
J. Stephen Byrne, MPhil. (App. Ling.), HDip. in Ed., Dip. TEFLA, MIITD, has studied and worked in Asia, continental Europe and the British Isles. He has taught at a number of multinational companies and plays an active part in the development of Flexible Learning Programmes. He has presented and published papers on the effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
Course Content Designers
Ken O' Brien, Dip RSA TEFLA, spent eight years teaching English abroad. He moved from teaching into teacher training and curriculum development. He worked for Abacus on a full-time basis during the development of the first title in the Let's Do Business software series. He has been involved in an advisory capacity on the language content of new the new titles in the series. He now works in the software industry in the area of localisation and translation.
Sean Byrne, BA in Ed., HDip. in Ed. taught at a secondary school level and English as a foreign language for over forty years. He has worked in Ireland and Africa. Although officially retired for the last five years he is still employed by his former school on a part time basis and works with Abacus Communications as a content designer.
Fiona Fay MA (Linguistics) TEFL Cert. has been a teacher of English as a Foreign Language for over eight years, teaching in schools in Dublin and Paris. Her areas of interest include testing and corpus linguistics. She has been involved in test development and examiner training in Dublin and is an oral test examiner. She was responsible for data collection for the Irish English contribution to the CANCODE corpus.
Freda Mishan is a researcher, EFL teacher and teacher trainer at a third level institution in Ireland. She has taught English as a foreign language and English for academic and specific purposes at schools and universities in England, Italy, Israel and Ireland. She is involved in the writing of learning materials for CALL programs, both for commercial companies and as part of EU-funded projects. She is currently researching a PhD thesis on authenticity in language learning materials design.
Nuala Roche has extensive experience teaching in a number of T.E.F.L. schools in Dublin. In addition to her teaching experience, she has a degree in Music and French and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration. She has been responsible for the development and up-keep of Self-Access Centres and has acted as an Information Technology advisor to a number of language centres.
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