About Author

Michael Cribb is senior lecturer in English language at Coventry University in the U.K. He holds a PhD from the University of Reading and an MA from the University of Leeds. He is senior associate editor of the Asian EFL Journal and a member of the ELPHE applied research group (English Language in the Professions and in Higher Education). He has lived and taught extensively in the Far East and has published widely in the field of Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (TESOL).