Colin Campbell has worked in English language teaching for almost 30 years. He has been a teacher, teacher-trainer and consultant in a number of countries, including Poland, Spain, Italy, Ireland and the UK. He has also been involved in setting up language schools in Italy and Poland. Some of his fondest memories from his career to date include co-hosting a Learning English television series for local television in Italy; recording Irish songs for a children's Course Book in Poland; writing original readers for CUP and, still, teaching students. He has worked at the University of Reading since 1998, teaching on EAP courses. He has written and co-written various EAP and general ELT books, including EAS Listening and EAS Vocabulary for Garnet Education. Jonathan Smith has many years' experience teaching and teacher training in Europe, North Africa and the Far East, and now works as an EAP lecturer and course director at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading. His academic interests include the teaching of oral skills and the applications of technology in language learning. He has co-authored two books in the English for Academic Study series: Listening and Pronunciation.
If you spend a few minutes flipping through their pages, you will discover a real treasure for your academic classes. It is definitely worth reading them! Liliana Burga Yuy for IATEFL Voices, Issue 236, January / February 2014 ...the tutor's role is instrumental, and the teacher's book embraces this with a comprehensive introduction on the approaches used, and informative teaching notes so that it would also be very usable by those starting out in EAP and on their first pre-sessional teaching assignment. Clare Anderson for the ESP SIG Journal, Issue 41, April 2013