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 Phil Scholfield is the author of articles in the areas of learner's dictionaries and their use, vocabulary learning, writing and computer assisted language learning, and author of a book about collecting language data (Quantifying Language, Multilingual Matters). He is a contributor to Everyman's Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Pergamon) and the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. He also advises Longman on ELT dictionaries, the Longman Language Activator and corpus grammar. Currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, he is heavily involved with teaching on the MA in English Language Teaching and the MA in Applied Linguistics. He has PhD projects running with students from as far apart as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela on topics such as written error correction with the dictionary, word attack strategies in reading, and how well learners are able to spot cognate words.
Paul Meara is currently Director of Research in the Centre for Applied Language Studies at Swansea University. Before that, he was Head of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, London University. He was a member of the editorial board of the Longman Language Activator, but he is perhaps best known for his work on the psychology of lexical acquisition. Swansea runs an innovative distance research network for PhD students working in the area of lexical acquisition, and welcomes students keen to develop their knowledge in this area.
David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Formerly professor of linguistics at the University of Reading, he is now an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Wales, Bangor. These days he divides his time between work on language and work on general reference publishing. He has written over 40 books in the field of language, including The English Language (Penguin, 1988), Rediscover Grammar (Longman, 1988), and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995), and is editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia.
Katie Wales is Professor of Modern English Language in the University of Leeds. She is a member of the Longman Linglex Advisory Committee, and a Longman author (A Dictionary of Stylistics, 1990). She is editor of the Longman journal Language and Literature and former Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association.
Sue Engineer is a freelance lexicographer, and was Associate Lexicographer for Longman ELT Dictionaries when she left in 1996 after 10 years with the department. While with Longman, she worked on the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the Longman Language Activator, and the Essential Activator, and she worked on the forthcoming Idioms Dictionary as a freelancer. She is particularly interested in new words and expressions, and other shifts and developments in the English language. She has lived and taught in the USA and in India.
Nick Ham studied French and Drama at Bristol University before teaching English as a foreign language for two years in London. In 1988 he joined Longman Dictionaries, where he worked as a developmental lexicographer on the Longman Language Activator and the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and as freelancer he wrote the Longman Essential Activator Workbook.
Yoshihko Ikegami was educated at the University of Tokyo (English) and Yale University (Linguistics, Ph.D. 1969). He served as guest professor at Philosophische Fakultat, Universitat Munchen (1982), International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Indiana University (1985), and at a number of universities in Japan. After teaching linguistics and English at the University of Tokyo for thirty years, he is now professor emeritus. Currently he is professor of the Graduate School, Showa Women's University in Tokyo. Some of his major publications include: Imiron (Semantics) (19,5), SURU to NARU no Gengogaku (Linguistics of DOING and BECOMING) (1981), Shigaku to Bunka Kigoron (Poetics and Cultural Semiotics) (1983), Kigoron e no Shotai (Invitation to Semiotics) (1984) and (ed.) The Empire of Signs: Semiotic Essays on Japanese Culture (1989).
Yuri Komuro studied lexicography at the University of Exeter from 1994 to 1995. She had her placement at Addison Wesley Longman. She is a member of the Iwasaki Linguistic Circle in Tokyo. She now teaches English at high school in Tokyo.
Della Summers is Director of Dictionaries at Pearson Education. She has been involved in the creation of dictionaries for over 25 years, and set up the Longman Lancaster Corpus, the Longman Learner's Corpus, the Spoken Corpus of the British National Corpus, and the Longman Spoken American Corpus developed by the University of California at Santa Barbara. Della initiated the Longman Language Activator, the Longman Interactive Dictionary, and the 1995 edition of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, along with her colleagues at Pearson Education.
Karen Stern is an American who first came to England to study English Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. After completing her MA in Anglo American Literary Relations at University College London and teaching foreign students in business colleges in London, she came to work for Pearson Education as a lexicographer. In the three and a half years she has been in the department she has worked as a lexicographer on the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and as a lexicographer and editor on the forthcoming Longman Dictionary of American English.
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