Steven Gershon received his MA in Applied Linguistics from Reading University (UK) in 1985. He has been teaching in Japan for 18 years and is currently Professor in the department of English Language and Literature at J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. He has also taught in the US, the UK, France, and China. His published coursebooks include Online (Macmillan), Sound Bytes (Longman), English Upgrade (Macmillan), On the Go/On the Move (Longman), and Gear Up (Macmillan).