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Vivienne grew up in Lancaster, England and became involved in ELT after her move to Munich in 1998. She recently completed her MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching and currently works as a Lektorin at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. She also teaches at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and the Volkshochschule.

John comes from the UK and has been teaching English in Munich since the early 80s. He runs a small team of trainers who teach in-company courses. He has co-authored several EFL course books and is an administrator of a forum for English Teachers in Germany: http://elt.yuku.com ».

Sarah has been teaching English in Munich since 2004 and loves it here! She’s taught at various schools and businesses and now the university and she’s also a writer for Langenscheidt. She enjoys being a part of Melta because of the support from fellow teachers and sense of community it offers.

Lisa was born and raised in Munich and has been teaching English since the early 90s. She is a trained interpreter and translator for English, German and French, and did an MA in Political Science. When she's not writing for Haufe Verlag, you'll find her outside on the water or in the mountains, or indoors on the basketball field or the Gyrotonic machine.

Rod is committed to providing an excellent environment for acquiring and perfecting the use of English for personal enrichment or career advancement. Continuing education of adults for more than 25 years, including cross-cultural immersion in locations as varied as rural Quebec, central California and urban Europe. CELTA completed in 1998.

Stephanie Shellabear moved to Munich in 1992 simply "because she wanted to speak German". Despite all the careers advice she received, she was totally against teaching. Now though: give her a whiteboard, a marker pen and a copy of MELTA News and she's in her element! Stephanie is married, has a six-year-old daughter and two terrapins, and loves all kinds of handicrafts, practising her Swedish, and doing Pilates.

Diana worked as a high-school teacher in Sydney before moving to Italy where she first started working as a freelance English trainer. She moved to Munich in 1995 and has been doing in-company training courses since then. She is currently enjoying her work as a university teacher at the LMU.

Helen is from the northeast of England and moved to Ingolstadt in 1999 to work as a Business English Trainer at Audi Akademie. She now works on a freelance basis in both corporate and academic environments. She takes a keen interest in the use of technology in teaching and is also the editor of Business Spotlight in the Classroom. To get away from it all she likes to head to the mountains, either with her snowboard or her motorbike.

Kate Eden, an architect in a former (and seemingly ever more distant) life is usually active in the field of Business English, though teaching English to young children seems to be a new path on the horizon.  She's currently on a short career 'break' to tend full-time to daughter no. 2.  As editor of MELTA News she'd be delighted to receive articles and anecdotes with some link to the world of ELT - any time of the year, not just in a mad panic before the printing deadline!

Joan Walsh is from Ireland and works as an English trainer in companies. She enjoys attending workshops and seminars in order to stay abreast of the most up-to-date trends in language-teaching and technology.

On holidays, she likes to travel and learn about everything connected with people, culture and language.