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Richard Schmidt is Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies and Director of the
National Foreign Language Resource Centre (NFLRC) at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa. He was also President of the American Association
for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). His major research interests concern
psychological and social factors (and the interplay between them)
in second and foreign language learning, in both naturalistic and
instructed SLA, from a variety of methodological perspectives ranging
from case studies to large scale surveys. His writings on such topics
as attention, awareness, motivation, and the development of L2 fluency
have appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters and
in three edited volumes, Language and Communication (Longman, 1983,
with Jack Richards), Attention and Awareness in Foreign Language
Learning (University of Hawaii, Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, 1995), and Motivation and SLA (University of Hawaii,
Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, 2001, with Zoltán
Dörnyei ).
Jim Cummins is Professor in the Modern Language Centre, Department of Curriculum, Teaching
and Learning in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of
the University of Toronto . In May 1997, he was awarded an honorary
Doctorate in Humane Letters from the Bank Street College of Education
in New York .
His research has focused on multiculturalism and minority language education,
bilingual education, psycholinguistics, critical pedagogy, language and
the school curriculum, learning disabilities, computer networking in
education. He has served as a consultant on language planning in education
to numerous international agencies. His latest publications include:
Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire (Multilingual
Matters, 2000), Negotiating identities: Education for empowerment in
a diverse society (California Association for Bilingual Education, 2001).
He is co-editor with Sandra Schechter of Multilingual education in practice:
Using diversity as a resource ( Heinemann , 2003) and with Christine
Davison of Handbook of English language teaching (Kluwer Academic Publishers,
in press).
Professor Jill Bell is the Head of Department of English in the School of Languages in Education
of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She began her career teaching
secondary English in England and the Caribbean, before moving to
Canada where she moved into tertiary level teaching as a Professor
in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto. Her research
interests include literacy and identity and narrative research methodology.
She has published a range of materials on second language learning
for teachers, students and researchers. Her latest publications include
Teaching Multilevel Classes in ESL (Pippin, in press, 2nd edition),
and Literacy, Culture and Identity (Peter Lang Publishing, 1997).
She is co-editor with M. Turnbull and S. Lapkin of From the Classroom:
Activities for language learning (University of Toronto Press, 2002).
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