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Elizabeth J. ErlingAttitudes to English as a language for internationaldevelopment in rural BangladeshThe Open University, UKElizabeth J. Erling was the principal investigator for this project. She is Lecturerin English Language Teaching at The Open University and has been a majorcontributor to ‘English in Action’, an English-language learning and teachereducation development project in Bangladesh (funded by DFID). Her researchexplores English as a language for international development as well as othertopics in world Englishes, language policy, teacher professional developmentand English for academic purposes. She has published articles in journals suchas World Englishes, English Today, Language Policy and Innovations in LanguageLearning and Teaching. She has recently edited, with Philip Seargeant, a volume onEnglish and International Development (Multilingual Matters, 2012).Sue GartonInvestigating global practices in teaching English to younglearnersAston University, UKDr Sue Garton is Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Director of PostgraduateProgrammes in English at Aston University, UK. She taught English in Italy for manyyears, especially at undergraduate level. Her research interests are in languageteacher education, classroom interaction and language teaching policy and practice.She has co-edited, with Keith Richards, a collection of papers about the discoursesof TESOL entitled Professional Encounters in TESOL: Discourses of Teachers inTeaching. Her latest book, From Knowledge to Experience in ELT is co-authored withJulian Edge and is part of the Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers series.Qumrul Hasan ChowdhuryAttitudes to English as a language for internationaldevelopment in rural BangladeshUniversity of Dhaka, BangladeshQumrul Hasan Chowdhury is a Lecturer in the Institute of Modern Languages,University of Dhaka. Qumrul did an MA in TESOL at the Institute of Education (IOE),University of London with Centenary Scholarship. Prior to that, Qumrul receivedhis BA in English and MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT from Dhaka University. Healso participated in a ten-month Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship (FLTA)program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill, USA with a Fulbright Scholarship. His research interests coverlanguage, culture and identity and English in diverse world contexts.Contributors | 415