Teaching English for Specific Purposes Eighth Latin American Congress

Adrian Underhill is a freelance educator and consultant. He is series editor of Macmillan Books for Teachers and author
of Sound Foundations: Learning and Teaching Pronunciation and also the award winning app: Sounds, The Pronunciation
App. He was Director of the International Teacher Training Institute at IH Hastings until 1999, and is a past president
of IATEFL.

Ms. Hearn has over 30 years of experience in TEFL, starting at International House, London and moving on to Central
America and Spain. Since 1985 she has been working at Kingís College, Madrid. For the past 20 years she has been
involved in teacher training and has given workshops throughout Europe, Africa, the United States and South America.
She served on the Executive Board of TESOL Spain for six years and was also a member of the ESL/Mother Tongue
Committee of the Council of International Schools. She has written a large number of primary EFL textbooks, and has
also worked on the development of Primary material for Uganda, East Africa. At present she is involved in running a
Masterís Programme at the University of Alcala de Henares.