About the Authors

Joan Saslow has taught English as a second language and English as a foreign language to adults and young adults in the United States and South America. She taught workplace English at the General Motors auto assembly plant in Tarrytown, New York, and Adult ESL at Westchester Community College and at Marymount College in New York. In addition, Ms. Saslow taught English and French at the Binational Centers of Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, Chile, and the Catholic University of Valparaíso.

Ms. Saslow is the series director of Longman’s popular five-level adult series True Colors, an EFL Course for Real Communication and of True Voices, a five-level video course. She is author of English in Context: Reading Comprehension for Science and Technology, a three-level series for English for special purposes. In addition, Ms. Saslow has been an editor of language teaching materials, a teacher trainer, and a frequent speaker at gatherings of ESL and EFL teachers for more than 30 years.
 
Tim Collins has taught English as a second language and English as a foreign language to adults and young adults in the United States, Spain, and Morocco. He taught English for special purposes at the Intensive English Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana. Dr. Collins also taught high school ESL at Lycée Al Badissi, Al Hoceima, Morocco, and advanced English composition at the University of Barcelona. In addition, he taught college Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

Dr. Collins is Assistant Professor of Language Minority Education at National-Louis University in Chicago, where he teaches in a teacher training program. In addition, he has been a writer and editor of English as a second language and adult education materials for more than 12 years. He is a frequent speaker at professional ESL meetings. Dr. Collins' Ph.D. degree is from the University of Texas at Austin.

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