Dr. Andrew Littlejohn, Ph.D (Lancaster), M.A., PGCE, B.A., is an academic, children's book writer, materials developer, consultant, researcher, teacher educator and language teacher. He has taught English, trained teachers, run short courses, and worked at universities in a number of countries including the UK, Sweden, Spain, Oman, Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, Brunei, Brazil, Bahrain and elsewhere. He is a qualified teacher for primary and middle schools. He is three times a winner of English-Speaking Union awards, presented at Buckingham Palace, for his writings in language teaching methodology. He has published articles and papers in numerous journals and edited collections, and is the author of many course books (mainly published by Cambridge University Press) for a wide range of language teaching contexts and purposes. For adult learners, these include Company to Company, Writing 1, Writing 2, Writing 3, and Writing 4 and the co-authored course Eurolingua (Clubschools, Switzerland and Cornelsen, Germany). For school-aged learners, Dr Littlejohn is co-author of the multi-level courses Cambridge English for Schools and Cambridge English Worldwide, for learners aged 11-16, and Primary Colours, for learners aged 5-11, and consultant and co-author (with Helgrid Schofield-Hammesfahr) of the First Choice topic based language development materials for primary schools (Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich, Switzerland). He was also a consultant for a major BBC Worldwide project to develop language teaching programmes for children aged 5+ in Asia. He has a particular interest in content-rich programmes which foster the development of higher order thinking skills.

Dr Littlejohn is co-editor (with Professor Michael Breen) of the landmark collection Classroom decision-making: negotiation and process syllabuses in practice (CUP, 2000), which provides practical accounts of shared decision-making with learners in primary, secondary and tertiary education. With Dr Sandhya Rao Mehta, he is co-editor of the collection Language studies: stretching the boundaries (CSP, 2012), which explores the relationship between language studies and other disciplines. He is also a co-editor of the recent collection Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is or has been an editorial advisor to a number of journals, including Applied Linguistics (OUP), Language and Education (Routledge), Language Teaching (CUP) and the refereed electronic journal TESL-EJ. He has been an invited plenary or keynote speaker in numerous international conferences, including conferences in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, Vietnam, and others. Dr Littlejohn provides on-going curriculum support to the Make a Difference foundation in India for the education of children in sheltered housing and orphanages. Through his website, www.AndrewLittlejohn.net, Dr Littlejohn provides resources to language teachers and researchers, and a practical A to Z of methodology for teaching primary and secondary school aged learners. His website attracts around 30,000 hits a month from all over the world.