Linda Taylor is currently Senior Lecturer in EFL at Nottingham Trent University, where she plans and delivers commercial courses as well as courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in EFL and TESOL. She began her career teaching French, but most of her working life has been concerned with international students in further and higher education. She has published widely in the field of teacher education, where her interests are vocabulary and pronunciation teaching, affect in language learning, and classroom discourse. She is presently researching classroom language.