Diana Hicks

Dr Diana Hicks has recently returned from Qatar where she was a consultant trainer for the Supreme Education Council, Doha, working with a team to prepare materials to prpeare 600 teachers to work in bilingual Independent Schools. She has also worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Bahrain.

She wears two hats – she is a textbook writer and a trainer/consultant. She has been writing textbooks for Cambridge University Press for more than 25 years and is particularly interested in materials and tasks for ELT which combine language learning and learning through language within a Bilingual/CLIL framework.

Diana has published (with Andrew Littlejohn) Cambridge English for Schools – a five level course for secondary learners, Cambridge English Worldwide – a six level course for secondary learners, and more recently (also with Andrew Littlejohn) Primary Colours, a six level course for young children. She is now working with Linguaphone to produce a three level pre-school English course called Pingu's English. All titles are used globally in both bilingual and monolingual schools.

She has been working as a Comenius trainer for the EU for fifteen years and has worked with teachers and students in more than 40 countries worldwide. She has given papers and run training days in over 25 countries. Diana has a doctorate from the University of Bristol in the Critical Discourse Analysis of the discourse of teachers' methodology.