Natalia A. Gunina heads the Department of International Professional Communication at Tambov State Technical University, Russia. Her research interests include teaching English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes to undergraduate and graduate students. She has published a number of articles in national journals and has also co-authored a number of course-books for students of non-linguistic majors, the most recent being English for Professional Communication (2016). She also edited the book Action Research into Teaching English in Russia’s Professional Context (2015).

Radislav P. Millrood received his EdD from Russia’s Academy of Education in Moscow, and is currently Professor in the Department of International Professional and Scientific Communication at Tambov State Technical University, Russia. His research interests embrace research and course development for age groups varying from very young learners to adults, teaching English to research students, giving training in academic writing, and producing computer simulation tools for teaching written discourse. His publications include Applied Linguistics, Language Didactics, and Language Pedagogy, and the articles “How native English speakers can be better English teachers in Russia” in The Internet TESL Journal (1998) and “The role of NLP in Teachers’ Classroom Discourse” in ELT Journal (2004), among others.