YLTSIG Committee

Laura McWilliams

YLTSIG Coordinator

Laura works as a YL Academic Manager for the British Council. She has worked in various countries in Europe and in the Middle East. She holds a Cambridge Delta with a specialism in YLs and is a Trinity TYLEC tutor. She regularly presents at IATEFL and TESOL conferences and other local teaching association events on YL ELT related topics.
Romina Muse

Joint Publication Editor
(TEYLT Worldwide)

Romina Muse holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Diploma in Child Neuropsychology. She also holds a BA in English Literature and Film Studies. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she works as a freelance remote teacher of English for the British Council. She lived in the UK, where she took courses in ESL and taught Spanish as a foreign language. She has taught English to infants, toddlers and very young learners. She has written articles and delivered talks and workshops at national and international conferences and online events on behaviour management, children’s literature and gender equality in ELT contexts. 

Letícia Moraes

Special Projects Coordinator

Leticia has been involved in ELT for almost 20 years and is a Senior Consultant with Troika, Brazil. Her main focus is secondary English language learners, writing and editing teaching materials, developing upskilling courses and training English teachers. She has written articles and delivered talks and workshops at conferences and online events on secondary ELT in Brazil and elsewhere. She was previously Joint Events Coordinator for YLTSIG.

Adrienn Szlapak

Publication Assistant (Blogs)

Adrienn has been involved in ELT for over 10 years and has held various teaching, training, and academic management roles in Europe and Asia. Most recently she has been working in an international school heading the EAL department. She holds a DELTA with a specialism in YL teaching, an MA in Cognitive Linguistics, and a PGCEi. She also runs a blog about her experience teaching EAL to Primary and Secondary students.  
Elizabeth Evans Cicconi

YLTSIG Joint Events Coordinator

Elizabeth has been involved in ELT for over 30 years and has vast experience teaching, training, and creating ELT materials in Italy. 
She is an active member of other associations for teachers and has been involved in the organisation of events as well as delivering webinars and moderating at online conferences over the past two years.
She is presently co-owner of a language school and works with students of all ages and enjoys the variety in her work.
Ana Cecilia Cad

Publication Assistant (Reviews)

Ana has been involved in ELT for over 10 years and has held various teaching and training roles in the USA and Argentina, and has experience in creating ELT materials. She is a member of other teacher associations in her country. Currently, she works at the School of Languages, National University of Córdoba, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students. She also conducts research related to technology, multiliteracies and multimodality, and the teaching of English to young learners. On these topics, she has published articles and book chapters on different outlets.

Cristian Chiroque

Publication Assistant (Reviews)

Cristian Chiroque has been involved in ELT for around 5 years and is a current candidate for the MA in TESOL at University College London. He holds Cambridge DELTA modules and a BA in ELT with a major in secondary education. He has worked in schools and language institutions where he has taught young learners and teenagers. He has also written action research articles and delivered talks on primary learners and metacognition. His main interests are primary language learners, task-based language learning, and teacher development.

Michelle Worgan

YLTSIG Joint Events Coordinator

Michelle Worgan is an educator and freelance materials writer specialising in primary ELT. With a career spanning more than twenty years, she is passionate about young learner teaching and strives to help and support teachers to empower their students through her materials and training courses. She is particularly interested in bridging the gap between ELT and mainstream educational materials and methodologies, with a special interest in learner-centred approaches. She is also part of a local teachers’ association where she helps plan events and she regularly presents at conferences on topics related to young learner teaching.

Leandro Paladino

Joint Publication Editor
(TEYLT Worldwide)

Leandro Paladino holds a BA as a teacher of English language and literature from the University of La Plata (Argentina), and a Master’s degree in Bilingual Education from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has been a teacher educator for many years at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has delivered numerous workshops for English teachers and directors, and has published articles and workbooks in ELT. Leandro is a deputy editor of the EAL Journal in the UK, published by NALDIC, of which he is a director. He is also the academic coordinator of Colegio York, a multilingual school in La Plata, Argentina, where he lives. 

 “During my 3 years as Public Relations Coordinator on the IATEFL YLTSIG Committee, I volunteered alongside a great team of YL ELT specialists. A fabulous way to collaborate and exchange expertise.” 

Bruno Andrade
Director of BrELT, Brazil

Over the past 35 years, IATEFL YLTSIG’s innovative development has been driven by the contributions of the following committee members:

1985 – 1994
Lois Arthur
John Clark
Opal Dunn
Leonora Fröhlich-Ward
Edie Garvie
Jackie Holderness
Annie Hughes
Caroline Laidlaw
Jayne Moon
Shelagh Rixon
Gordon Slaven
Wendy Superfine
Melanie Williams
Andrew Wright

1995 – 2004
Wendy Arnold
Kay Bentley
Sarah Burwood
Denise Clenton
Helen Dunford
Chris Etchells
Andy Jackson
Gordon Lewis
Beatriz Lupiano
Rosemary Mitchell-Schuitevoerder
Sandie Mourão
Lynette Murphy O’Dwyer
Janet Olearski
Helen Paul
Carol Read
Debbie Smith
Kari Smith
Wendy Superfine
Eleanor Watts
Melanie Williams

2005 – 2014
Wendy Arnold
Kay Bentley
Janice Bland
Kalyan Chattopadhyay
Janet Crossley
Helen Davies
Nellie Deutsch
Helen Dunford
Gemma Fanning
Christina Giannikas
Charles Goodger
Susan Hillyard
Andy Jackson
Niki Joseph
Ffinlo Kilner
Harry Kuchah
David Leonida
Gordon Lewis
Caroline Linse
Lou McLoughlin
Rosemary Mitchell-Schuitevoerder
Hans Mol
Sandie Mourão
Dennis Newson
Helen Paul
Kerry Powell
Carol Read
Jason Renshaw
David Valente
Eleanor Watts
Karin Widl

2015 – present
Bruno Andrade
Sarah Assaad
Helen Chapman
Kalyan Chattopadhyay
Shay Coyne
Sinem Daridere
Amanda Davies
Nellie Deutsch
David Dodgson
Gerhard Erasmus
Gemma Fanning
Maria Teresa Fernandez
Nicky Francis
Christina Giannikas
Charles Goodger
Kate Gregson
Maria Jesus Inostroza
Joan Kang Shin
Dirk Lagerwaard
Lou McLaughlin
Dennis Newson
Vinne Nobre
Rachael Pooley
Simon Pounder
Lia Testa Teismann
David Valente
Stephanie Xerri Agius

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