Naziha Ali Raza (EdD TESOL, University of Exeter) is a freelance instructional designer associated with the General Civil Aviation Authority in Dubai, UAE. She has previously worked at the Emirates Aviation College in Dubai for 13 years as a Learning & Development Specialist in the Corporate English Language Skills Department. Naziha has also worked in Pakistan as the Director of Faculty Development at institutions such Lahore University of Management Sciences (School of Education) and The City School Network, Lahore. Her contributions include teacher development in areas such as pedagogy, research, English language skills, academic writing, programme evaluation and training policy development. She actively volunteers in teachers’ associations such as TESOL International, IATEFL and TESOL Gulf. Her current areas of interest include teacher professionalism, continuous professional development and evaluation. Naziha is the co-editor of this volume along with Christine Coombe.Christine Coombe has a Ph.D. in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University. She is currently Associate Professor of General Studies at Dubai Men's College, Former Testing and Measurements Supervisor at UAE University, and Assessment Coordinator at Zayed University. She is Co-author of A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners (2007, University of Michigan Press) and Co-editor of Assessment Practices (2003, TESOL Publications); Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness in EF/SL Contexts (2007, UMP); Language Teacher Research in the Middle East (2007, TESOL Publications); Leadership in English Language Teaching and Learning (2008, UMP); Applications of Task-based Learning in TESOL (2010, TESOL Publications); The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment (2012, Cambridge University Press); Reigniting, Retooling and Retiring in English Language Teaching (2012, University of Michigan Press); The Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2015); and Volume 8 of the TESOL Encyclopedia of ELT (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). Her forthcoming books are on innovation in the MENA, international perspectives on language teaching associations and professionalism in education.
