We are pleased to announce that Professor David Nunan and Mr. Dave Sperling have kindly agreed to give keynote speeches during the ELT online conference.

Professor David Nunan (http://ec.hku.hk/dcnunan) is Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong.  Prior to this, he was Director of Research and Development, NCELTR, and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.  He has published over 100 books and articles in the areas of curriculum and materials development, classroom-based research, and discourse analysis.  His recent publications include Introducing Discourse Analysis (Penguin Books), The Self-Directed Teacher (Cambridge University Press), Voices from the Language Classroom (with Kathleen M. Bailey) (Cambridge University Press), The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (with R. Carter) (Cambridge University Press) and  Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source (with K. Bailey and A. Curtis) (Heinle & Heinle).  His textbook projects include ATLAS, Go For It, Listen In, Speak Out and Expressions, all published by Heinle & Heinle/Thomson Learning.  Go For It has recently been selected and adapted by People’s Education Press as a basal textbook series for middle schools in China.  He was President of TESOL 1999-2000. For more information on Prof. Nunan please visit his website.

Dave Sperling lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two children. He is the creator of the well-known ESL/EFL website, Dave's ESL Cafe, as well as the author of 'The Internet Guide for English Language Teachers', 'Dave Sperling's Internet Guide', and 'Dave Sperling's Internet Activity Workbook'. Dave began his teaching career in Asia in 1985, where he taught several years in Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. After returning to the United States, Dave completed his MA in Applied Linguistics at California State University, Northridge in 1995, and began teaching in their Intensive English ESL Program.

Excited about the powerful learning potential of the Internet, Dave started building his website, Dave's ESL Cafe, which evolved into a central meeting place on the Internet for ESL/EFL students and teachers from around the world. Today Dave's ESL Cafe has grown to thousands of individual web pages, and receives millions of accesses each month from students and teachers from over 160 different countries.