Anne Swan

Anne Swan is currently a PhD candidate at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is researching the strengths that multilingual teachers of English bring to the profession and has recently presented papers at international conferences in the UK and Mexico on this topic. At the time of this research, she was developing a three-year transnational program in Malaysia for native Malay (Bumiputera) students. Before that, she worked in Italy, the UK, Australia and Japan. She has been an IELTS Examiner since 1989 and has taught and developed IELTS training courses in Australia, Japan and Malaysia, in addition to assessing candidates in all of these countries. With colleagues, Carol Gibson and Wanda Rusek, she has written IELTS Test practice materials for publication in Australia and China.