AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
is Lecturer in Spanish at the internationally renowned Brasshouse Language Centre in Birmingham.
Rosa María Martín
A native of Zaragoza in the north-east of Spain, Rosa has an educational background in linguistics and a Masters in Language and Literature in Education from the Institute of Education at the University of London. She is Director of Language Learning at Queen Mary, University of London, a post she combines with her very active writing career, which includes the Pasos series for adults learning Spanish and the Aventura and Aventura Nueva series for schools, as well as many other publications covering a range of age groups and formats. She has experience in a range of areas of education, having been advisory teacher for Modern Languages in London boroughs for Primary and Secondary students and has developed a number of re-training courses in modern languages for UK secondary teachers of other subjects.
Martyn Ellis
Born in Solihull, in the West Midlands of the UK, Martyn was for many years involved in English Language Teaching, employed by International House in London and in Spain, and also for Eurocentres as a teacher, teacher trainer, Director of Studies and latterly, Principal. He has a Masters in EFL (MATEFL) from the Centre of Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Reading. Since 1999 he has been a fulltime writer and consultant, involved in writing projects with Rosa María Martín for Spanish (Pasos, Aventura and many others) and also teaches Spanish to undergraduate students at Queen Mary University of London. He works for EAQUALS (European Association of Quality Language Services), inspecting language schools throughout Europe and is a Chief Examiner for London Tests of English, part of the Edexcel examining board.
