Sally La Luzerne-Oi has taught EFL/ESL, French. and teacher training courses in the U.S. Mexico, Venezuela, Portugal, Japan and Ukraine. She currently works independently on short-term assignments. She coauthored Tell Me About It! a listening and speaking textbook, and a number of chapters and articles. In 1994 she joined Zirka Voronka and other American instructors to provide a Summer Institute on Current Methods and Practices in TESOL held in Vinnytsia and Kharkiv. Little did she know that the Ukrainian teachers and their students would capture a piece of her heart! As a result, she returned to Ukraine for the 1995-96 academic year and four more summers. She is co-liaison for the Hawaii TESOL/TESOL Ukraine partnership.

Maryna Tsehelska has a PhD in Philology, she has been working for more than 20 years as Associate Professor of the English Language and Methodology Department, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. She is an author of numerous scientific articles in psycholinguistics and comparative linguistics.

Maryna is also greatly interested in methods of teaching a new generation of students, which she introduces and tests in the Educational Centre "Interclass", where she is an owner and Director of Studies.