Alan Stanton has taught EFL, ESL, Business English, Literature, and IELTS courses, working in the Unite Kingdom, South America and Japan.  He has had extensive experiences of developing examination materials and assessing students.  He is involved in teacher training and is currently Director of a DELTA course.  He has given several conference talk and radio interviews and written articles on his research interest, which is new vocabulary in colloquial English.  He is the co-author of Longman Commercial Communication, Test Yourself for First Certificate, The Nelson Proficiency Course, Test Yourself for Proficiency, The Nelson First Certificate Course, Practice Tests for First Certificate, Fast Tract to CAE and CAE Practice Tests Plus.