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Organising committee members
committee of the TEC series of conferences jointly organized by the EFL University and
British Council. She is currently the Chief-Coordinator of the International Training
Programmes conducted at EFL_U under the ITEC/SCAAP scheme of the Ministry of
External Affairs, Govt.of India.
Prof S Mohanraj
Prof S Mohanraj is a senior member of the faculty in the English and Foreign Languages
University. At present he is the Dean, School of English Language Education. He has over
four decades of teaching experience with specialization in the areas of Materials
Development and Teacher Education. He has been honoured with Best Practicing
Teacher Award for the year 2010 by TESOL at its convention held in Boston. His areas of
interest besides teacher education lie in Education Technology and Professional
Development. He has travelled extensively both in India and outside conducting training
programmes and attending conferences for presenting papers, delivering keynote
addresses and chairing sessions. He has also published more than 150 research papers
in national and international journals.
Paul Gunashekar
Paul Gunashekar has been teaching English, training teachers of English and developing
instructional materials for language teaching for over forty years. He is a Professor in
the Department of Materials Development, Testing and Evaluation, and Dean,
Publications at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He has
authored, co-authored and edited over two hundred ELT textbooks, workbooks,
supplementary readers and reading cards. He specializes in course design, teacher
development, and English for Specific Purposes. He edits the EFLU research journal
Languaging, and is the Indian English consultant to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary.
Dr K Venkat Reddy
Dr K Venkat Reddy is a faculty in the Department of Training and Development, E.F.L-
University, Hyderabad. Dr Reddy has over two decades of rich and varied teaching and
research experience both in India and abroad. He worked in Afghanistan and Vietnam as
English language teacher educator on the education projects sponsored by the Ministry
of External Affairs Government of India. He has attended and presented papers in
seminars and conferences in addition to conducting numerous training programmes. He
has also published research papers in reputed journals and books. Currently Dr Reddy is
the all India coordinator of the ELTI Support Scheme.
K Padmini Shankar
K Padmini Shankar is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of ESL Studies, School of ELE in
the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad , India. She teaches on the
M.A. TESL programme and offers research guidance to PhD students. She acts as a
resource person on the teacher training programmes at the University and elsewhere.
She has published and edited coursebooks for grades 3 to 8. She has presented papers
at national and international conferences in Taiwan, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia,
Singapore, etc. Her research interests include: classroom-based research, teacher
development, psychology for language learning, and teaching and assessing young
learners.
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