Yayra Abduraimova is from Tashkent and received her MA in Linguistics from Uzbekistan State World Languages University. She has been an English teacher since 2000 at Uzbekistan State World Languages University. She is also the chair of the department and has received the Best English Teacher prize in 2014. She is a co-author of several course books. As a Core Teacher Trainer, she is looking forward to developing professionally and improving her teacher training skills.