The Pingu's English syllabus, course structure and learning methodology has been developed by a team of leading English language learning and child education experts.

Dr Diana Hicks
Curriculum Designer and Course Writer

Diana Hicks has over 30 years experience as a teacher, trainer, author and language and curriculum consultant. A qualified preschool and secondary school teacher, Diana has been writing English language textbooks for children for more than 25 years. She has a particular interest in the development of reading and writing skills in English for students whose mother tongue is expressed in a different script.

Daisy Scott
Video Script Writer, Story Writer and American English Consultant

Daisy most recent work has been as a writer on the American PBS networked children programmes Arthur and Peep the latter won an Emmy Award for its inaugural season. She has also been a consultant on Zoom and Ready to Learn. All these are television programmes aimed at preschool children.

Daisy also wrote all the scripts for the Linguaphone Group, Direct English and Linguaphone assisted learning American English video course.

Mike Raggett
Creative Director

Mike is an experienced creator of the audiovisual components for English language training (ELT) courses at all levels. As well as the Linguaphone Group Direct English and Linguaphone assisted learning American English video course, Mike has written and produced many other ELT videos, activity books and interactive-based programmes for children, teenagers and young adults.