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Sofya Alexander
Institution: DLIFLC
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, USSR. Received a B.A. in Russian from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. Received a M.A. in Translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1988. In her 15 years at DLI has held positions of Russian language instructor, OPI tester, curriculum developer and faculty development specialist. Currently Academic Specialist for the School of Resident Programs at the Continuing Education Directorate, Defense Language Institute (DLI).
Sofya.Alexander@Monterey.army.mil

Natalia Antokhin
Institution: DLIFLC
(Ph.D., Moscow State University; M.A., Monterey Institute of International Studies) Associate Professor and Curriculum Development Specialist at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. She is currently a member of the GLOSS development team. She has several publications in the areas of Russian and French philosophy, popular culture and foreign language education.
natalia.antokhin@monterey.army.mil

Hudar Arin
Institution: DLIFLC
Instructor, Kurdish Department, Emerging Languages Task Force, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Studied Economics and Linguistics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Has worked in Product Management and Marketing in the Computer Industry for many years. Has teaching and testing experience in three different languages with both native speakers and foreign learners.
hudar.arin@monterey.army.mil

Cecilia Barbudo
Institution: DLIFLC
Associate Professor, Spanish Department, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. M.A. in Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. B.A. and teaching credential, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. Has worked as a teacher, curriculum specialist and test developer during the course and scope of her career as a Spanish-language educator.
cecilia.barbudo@monterey.army.mil

Eva Maria Bill
Institution: McHenry County College
Teaches Spanish at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL. She received her Master's degree in Spanish from Case Western Reserve University and completed her Ph.D. coursework with a focus on Spanish literature. She has designed and developed two online Spanish courses and uses technology extensively in her traditional face-to-face Spanish courses. She has presented at various conferences nationwide. Additionally, she is in the process of designing a foreign language laboratory equipped with the necessary hardware and software to allow students to create and manipulate digital video and audio to aid in their foreign language learning experience.
ebill@mchenry.edu

Abdelfattah Boussalhi
Institution: DLIFLC
(Ph.D., University of Glasgow, U.K.) Associate Professor at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California. He is currently a member of the GLOSS development team at the Curriculum Division. Prior to that, he was a teacher of Arabic and an OPI tester trainer at the Evaluation and Standardization division (Defense Language Institute). He has contributed to several projects and publications on language proficiency assessment, text analysis and curriculum development.
abdelfattah.boussalhi@monterey.army.mil

Marina Brodskaya
Institution: Stanford University
I teach Russian and English at Stanford. I have also taught ESL and Russian at Canada College, LACC, SMC, and the University of Pennsylvania. My interest in language-learning stems from a personal experience of being raised in the Soviet Union and coming to the US at the age of 17. I hold a BA and a BS from the U of Penn and two MA's, one in Russian Area Studies and another in TESOL. Although I have held exciting jobs, including working at the United Nations, I have always been drawn to teaching languages. Years ago, teaching English at a business college in Paris, France, I learned to supplement textbooks and magazines with songs, radio, movies and TV as well as my own recordings. Similarly, when I came to Stanford, I found that foreign-language instructional materials can often be updated and improved significantly with the help of instructional technology easily available on most campuses.
marinab@stanford.edu

Rene Candia
Institution: International School of Monterey
Born in La-Paz, Bolivia, received a MA in Metallurgical Engineering from San Andres University at La-Paz in 1975. Has worked in production managment and marketing in the metals industry for many years. Has been teaching Spanish
for five years in elementary and middle school in Monterey, California.
candiarene@hotmail.com

Lisa Caouette
Institution: Alberta Education
lisa.caouette@gov.ab.ca

Susan Cefola
Institution: Pittsburgh Public Schools
Currently serving her fourth year as World Language Resource Teacher for Pittsburgh Public Schools. Prior to this, she was a teacher of Spanish for 9 years. As a teacher, Ms. Cefola was actively involved in many curriculum-writing projects and workshop presentations. As a Resource Teacher she provides in-class demonstrations, works on many curriculum writing committees, observes and confers with world language teachers, and presents numerous workshops both in-house and at local, state and national conferences. Ms. Cefola has been instrumental in the design and implementation phases of the software development. She has also been particularly effective in terms of troubleshooting, problem solving, data aggregation and assisting classroom teachers during the district-wide implementation of the online PPS ORALS test.
scefola1@pghboe.net

Michael Chang
Institution: DLIFLC
Defense Language Institute Associate Professor, more than 10 years experience teaching Mandarin Chinese. Currently serving as Chinese Department A Team leader. One of the main authors of Chinese supplementary teaching materials at the Defense Language Institute. For more than 15 years worked as a broadcast writer and foreign language editor at Radio Beijing in China. Commentaries regarding Chinese news and international affairs have appeared in World Journal (NY), The China Press (CA), and other publications. Selected DLI Chinese Department Teacher of the Year: 1998
Michael.Chang@Monterey.army.mil

Marina Cobb
Institution: DLIFLC
Associate Professor, Faculty and Staff Development Division, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. M.A. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Teaching Foreign Languages. Has worked as a teacher of English and Russian, department chair and faculty development specialist.
marina.cobb@monterey.army.mil

Bob Cole
Institution: Monterey Institute of International Studies
Bob Cole is currently the Director of Intensive English Programs at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Mr. Cole graduated from UCLA with a BA in History and gained his MATESOL from the Monterey Institute. In addition to his administrative, supervising, and teaching duties for intensive English Programs, he is a regular instructor in the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Certificate Program at MIIS, teaching courses in web design, video production, project-based learning and integrating technology into the second and foreign language classroom. Mr. Cole has shared his work with the ESL classroom and technology integration at regional and state CATESOL, Digital Stream, International TESOL and WorldCALL conferences. Mr. Cole is also involved in local grant funded outreach efforts designed to connect local K-12 teachers with MIIS MATESOL/TFL graduate students and build foundations for effective technology use in the classroom.
bcole@miis.edu

Maria L. Cooks
Institution: Purdue University
Associate Professor of Spanish at Purdue University and Director of First Year Spanish. Research Interests: Computerized Instruction, the Teaching of Languages for Special Purpose (LSP) and the language of poetry.
marcooks@purdue.edu

Chris Dalessandri
Institution: Prismatic Consulting
President of Prismatic Consulting, LLC, has nine years experience in software technology including four years as a software engineer and five years as a software architect. He spent two years as acting manager of the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) software development department, during which he designed much of PPS's student information system while overseeing its development. This experience gives him a unique perspective on the challenges school districts face in general and the specific challenges at PPS. Four years ago, he formed Prismatic Consulting, LLC along with Irwin Hurst. Mr. Dalessandri was instrumental in Prismatic Consulting's design and construction of the online PPS ORALS' software (OWLTS). He is currently designing and developing a greatly enhanced and expanded version of the software.
chris@dalessandri.com

Regina DeAngelo
Institution: Yale University
regina.deangelo@yale.edu

Kathryn de la Fuente
Institution: DLIFLC
I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon in 1977. Afterwards, I taught English in the Peace Corps in Tunisia and then went to Alaska for 20 years. Then I went back into the Peace Corps, this time to the Philippines to train English teachers. I have worked at the DLI for almost three years teaching grammar essentials, study skills and area studies.
silveralbatross@hotmail.com

Richard Donovan
Institution: California State University Monterey Bay
Richard Donovan is a member of the DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee and currently serves as Manager, Extended Education and International Programs at CSU Monterey Bay. Since 1996, he has helped CSU Monterey Bay to develop regional public/private collaborative projects and a number of innovative partnerships to promote second language acquisition, assessment and teaching. A former Foreign Area Officer with the Department of Defense, Mr. Donovan holds a Master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Prior to his working at CSU Monterey Bay, he served as founding Associate Dean at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's School of Middle East II where Arabic and Persian languages and culture were taught.
Richard_Donovan@csumb.edu

Tarek Elgendy
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor of Arabic Language, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. M.A. in Public Administration from the American University in Cairo. Taught EFL at the Egyptian DLI for 20 years before joining DLI California. Taught Arabic at Middle East School I for a year before being chosen to join Curriculum Development Division to take part in developing a new Arabic Basic Course. Expert in using SMART Board and conducted many workshops to MEI faculty. Co-presented workshops on the uses of SMART Board 2003-2004. Co-presented a workshop on “SMART Board Technology Enhances Methodology” and a presentation on ”Developing Communicative Tasks for Use with SMART Board” at the Digital Stream Conference in 2004.
Tarek.Elgendy@monterey.army.mil

Cindy Evans
Institution: Skidmore College
Ph.D., Director of the Foreign Language Resource Center and Lecturer in French at Skidmore College. Her teaching and research interests include language learning technology and pedagogy and Quebecois culture and literature. She is an active member of CALICO and past president of NEALLT (Northeast Association of Language Learning Technology).
cevans@skidmore.edu

Thekla Fall
Institution: Pittsburgh Public Schools
Has 35 years' combined experience working for Pittsburgh Public Schools as both an elementary and middle school German/bilingual teacher and 23 years as head of the district World Language/English as a Second Language department. Dr. Fall has directed several federally funded projects including two Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grants (USDE, 1999- 2002and 2003-2006) which are supporting the PPS ORALS assessment initiative. She has presented sessions and workshops at many local, state, and national conferences. In the fall of 2002, she presented highlights of PPS's first FLAP project to the Delegate Assembly at the ACTFL Convention. Dr. Fall is currently serving her second term as president of the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association.
tfall1@pghboe.net

Carl Falsgraf
Institution: Director, CASLS. University of Oregon
Founder and Director of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies, a National Foreign Language Resource Center at the
University of Oregon. He was president of the Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL) and has served on the ACTFL Executive Council, The Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Board of Directors and the PNCFL Board of Directors. He has delivered numerous keynote addresses and workshops and published papers on second language acquisition, functional
linguistics and standards-based language education. He is the lead designer of the STAMP online proficiency assessment and other technology-based tools to help teachers develop and measure student proficiency.
falsgraf@oregon.uoregon.edu

Jack Franke
Institution: DLIFLC
Professor of Russian at DLI. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences on computer-aided language instruction, multimedia, and foreign language education. His present research interests include the OPI, speaking proficiency, and corpus linguistics over the web. He recently published The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs (McGraw-Hill, 2004).
drfranke@yahoo.com

Judi Franz
Institution: University of California Irvine
Director of the Humanities Instructional Resource Center at UC Irvine. She has an undergraduate degree in French and an MA in Educational Technology. She is a member of the School of Humanities Tech Team at UCI, providing leadership in technology integration and support for the faculty through group workshops and individual instruction.
jmfranz@uci.edu

Marinella Garatti
Institution: State University of New York at New Paltz
Assistant Professor in the departments of Foreign Languages and of Secondary Education at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she teaches Italian, foreign language foundations and methodology classes and serves as Foreign Language Education program coordinator. Her areas of interests include second language acquisition and cognition, learner beliefs and teacher training.
garattim@newpaltz.edu

Antonio Gragera
Institution: Texas State University
Doctorate in Hispanic Linguistics by the University of Massachusetts, I focused on Spanish as a Second Language. Came to Texas State University in 2000. I have been in charge of the coordination of first year language courses since then and it has been my plan to bring technology to teaching languages as much as the university and the Department of Modern Languages allows. My research interests are in Language Acquisition Theory, Applied Linguistics and Technology applied to research and teaching. I have been teaching courses in Spanish morpho-syntax, applied linguistics, second language acquisition and one interdisciplinary course in language and ideology. As coordinator I am in charge of instructing graduate teaching assistants and elaborating assessment instruments for evaluation.
ag20@txstate.edu

Luba Grant
Institution: DLIFLC
Luba Grant is currently the Dean of Asian School I, which provides language and area studies instruction in Chinese Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, Tagalog and Vietnamese at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). A graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, with B.A and M.A. degrees in Russian Language and Literature, she has held numerous leadership positions at DLI including: Dean, Middle East School II (Arabic and Persian-Farsi) from 1993 to 2002; Dean, Russian School II and later Dean of the School of Russian Studies from 1987 to 1993. She was also in charge of implementing the then-newly-redeveloped Russian Basic Course at DLI at the Presidio of Monterey, San Francisco Branch and at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. In the late 80’s, as Dean of Russian School II, Ms. Grant led the development efforts for yet another version of the Russian Basic Course – a course that is still being used at DLI today. She has published several articles and has presented at numerous professional conferences for national and international audiences. Dean Grant currently serves as a reviewer for Dialog on Language Instruction and is a board member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ Less Commonly Taught Languages Special Interest Group (LCTL SIG). She has a strong interest in computer-assisted and Web-based instruction and together with representatives from the Naval Postgraduate School’s Modeling Virtual Environments and Simulation Institute has led the development and evaluation effort for a cutting edge, Arabic language and culture training program that incorporates computer-generated Avatars in a virtual environment.
luba.grant@monterey.army.mil

Scott Gravina
Institution: Yale University
Senior Lector in Spanish M.A. Spanish, Middlebury College
scott.gravina@yale.edu

Ali Habashi
Institution: DLIFLC
Born in Iran and worked on Main Frame computers for ten years in the Iranian Air Force. Holds a BS in Computer Science and Information systems from American College of Computer Science and Information systems. Taught hardware and software at Central Coast College in Salinas (CA). Persian senior instructor and Computer resident at Defense Language Institute in Monterey since September 30, 2003.
maziahali2@aol.com

Akiko Hagiwara
Institution: Michigan State University
Education: 1999, M.A. Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University, New York . 1991, B.A. British Literature, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. Employment: 1999-present, Full time instructor of Japanese Language, Michigan State University. 1997-1999, Part-time instructor of English Language, Aeon East Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. 1995-1996, Japanese Language Intern, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. 1994-1995, Japanese Language Intern, Elmira College, Elmira, NY
hagiwar3@msu.edu

Darivsh Hooshmand
Institution: DLIFLC
Professor at DLI.
Darivsh.Hooshmand@monterey.army.mil

Kayoko Imagawa
Institution: Castilleja School
Currently teaching Japanese for middle school and high school students at Castilleja School in Palo Alto. She received her MA degree in Japanese Pedagogy from San Francisco State University in May, 2004. Her recent interests include Computer Assisted Language Learning Program (CALL Program) and use of technology in the language classroom. She recently presented "Methods for Teaching Japanese Numeric Classifier" with Masahiko Minami and Maki Takata at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2004 Conference.
kayoko702@hotmail.com

John Ittelson
Institution: California State University Monterey Bay
Dr. Ittelson is a Professor in the School of Information Technology and Communications Design and Director of the Interactive Design and Educational Applications Lab (The I.D.E.A. Lab) at California State University, Monterey Bay. In addition to his teaching schedule, Dr. Ittelson serves as the Chair of the Applications Coordinating Committee of the CA K-12 High Speed Network, a committee to deal with content issues for the network infrastructure that serves the statewide K-12 community. During the 2001-2002 academic year, Dr Ittelson was selected to be one of two National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) Fellows. Dr. Ittelson has been selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator for the past four years. Dr. Ittelson serves on the Boards of the CSU Virtual Language Lab project and Access Monterey Pininsula Cable Consortium and on the Program Committee for The Digital Stream Conference. Dr. Ittelson received a Bachelor’s degree in Radio-Television-Film, a Master’s Degree in Instructional Television, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Instructional Design from Northwestern University.
John_Ittelson@csumb.edu

Carlos Iturrino
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor of Spanish at the Defense Language Institute. He is currently developing Spanish Learning Objects for the GLOSS project at the Curriculum Development Division.
carlos.iturrino@monterey.army.mil

Maureen Jameson
Institution: University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Associate Professor of French and Chair of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University at Buffalo, where she has taught since 1985. Her training is in French literature and she uses web technologies to promote literacy in foreign languages with a recent focus on less commonly taught languages, including Arabic which she studied during a four-year teaching stint in her youth.
jameson@buffalo.edu

Claudia Prada Jensen
Institution: El Camino College
I have a Master of Arts in Spanish Literature and a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television with emphasis in animation and new media technology from UCLA. I have experience teaching Spanish grammar and culture at both the college and preparatory school level with a strong background in technology planning and strategies for integrating multimedia into the curriculum. I have enthusiastically focused one of my teaching goals in developing fun and engaging lesson plans using technology as a tool for language acquisition. In my teaching I apply various techniques to accommodate different learning styles and I use technology to create lesson plans that are academically strong while promoting student interest, thus insuring student success.
pradaclaudia@yahoo.com

Hanan Khaled
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor of Arabic Language, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. B.A. in Pharmacy from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Taught Arabic at Middle East School I for a year before being chosen to join Curriculum Development Division to take part in developing a new Arabic Basic Course. Taught French for 3 years in a private school and science for 8 years. Taught pharmaceutical science at Western Career College for 2 years in the United States. Developed a Matrix for Pharmaceutical Mathematics for a 60 week course and a Pharmacy Technician Board end-of-course test. In 2004, during the Digital Stream 2004 conference, co-presented “SMART Board Technology Enhances Methodology” and “Developing Communicative Tasks for Use with the SMART Board."
Hanan.Khaled@monterey.army.mil

Soondeuk Kim
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor, Asian School II, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in Applied Linguistics. Has worked as a KFL & ESL instructor for over ten years.
Soondeuk.Kim@monterey.army.mil

Youngsook Kim
Institution: DLIFLC
Associate Professor of Educational Technology at the DLIFLC and has worked there since 1988. She developed a Korean Web-based course and participated in developing the Generator.
youngsook.kim@monterey.army.mil

Steve Koppany
Institution: DLIFLC
(M.A., MIIS) Dean of Curriculum Development at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey. Over his 24-year career, he also served as teacher, faculty developer, and department chair.
Steven.Koppany@monterey.army.mil

Michal Krynicki
Institution: Wilfrid Laurier University, Laurier Language Center
Since 2001 has been director of the Laurier Language Center at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His educational background is in Applied Linguistics and Germanic Studies; he holds an M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures (University of Alberta, 2001) and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics (Adam-Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 1998). Michal has taught German and English to Polish and Canadian undergraduate students.
mkrynicki@wlu.ca

Jeongah Lee
Institution: DLIFLC
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the DLIFLC. I also have Korean teaching experience at Indiana University (IU). I recently earned a Ph.D. in the Language Education Department at IU. I have master's degrees in Applied Linguistics from IU and East Asian Studies from Yonsei University in Korea. I have experience in coordinating teacher training workshops and seminars as an Outreach Assistant in the East Asian Studies Center at IU. I also worked as an Administrative Associate at the APEC Cyber Education Consortium. I have written international project proposals, position papers and scripts for speeches for the Korean Minister of Education for the international meetings and conferences. I have an on-going interest in developing multimedia teaching materials incorporating cultural elements. I have developed my own homepage reflecting my knowledge of computer technology and practical uses of multimedia in classroom situations.
jeongah.lee@monterey.army.mil

Saekyun Lee
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor, Asian School II, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Has taught Korean at DLI since 1997 and currently working exclusively on Diagnostic Assessment and curriculum development for the Korean program. M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, BA from the University of Washington.
saekyun.lee@monterey.army.mil

Sylvia Lee
Institution: DLIFLC
Defense Language Institute Associate Professor. Served as teaching team leader for 12 years. Has worked with Michael Chang in a cooperative effort to produce a wide range of supplementary materials for use in Chinese language training. Those materials are used by other teaching teams in all four Chinese Departments at DLI. Has made presentations to DLI teachers and staff regarding effective teaching techniques, using current technology.
sylvia.lee@monterey.army.mil

Gus Leonard
Institution: California State University Monterey Bay
Gus Leonard is the Language Lab Coordinator at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). He also serves as President of the SouthWest Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT). Leonard has worked with language learning and technology since 1991 and came to CSUMB in 2000 from the University of Minnesota CLA Language Center. His training as an instructor of Swedish and English as a Second Language has brought him into classrooms from the primary grades through college and adult education programs both in the United States and Japan. He currently consults with various regional institutions and continues his work as a founding participant in the CSU-Sanako Virtual Language Learning project.
gus_leonard@csumb.edu

Patrick Lin
Institution: DLIFLC
Presently an Associate Professor and Chairperson of Chinese Department B at the Defense Language Institute. Received his Master's Degree in Modern Chinese Language from Jinan University of China in 1987. He has been a professional Chinese language teacher and researcher in Mainland China, Macao, Hong Kong and the US for more then 22 years. His publications include Shiqi Dialect (Jinan University Press, China, 1987), A Survey of Dialects in the Pearl River Delta, Vol. 1, 2, 3(co-author, New Century Publishing House, Hong Kong, 1987-1990), 500 Basic Chinese Characters (co-author, Sinolingua, Beijing, First Edition1996, Second Edition 1999), Facts About China (co-author, New England Publishing Associates, US. 2003), and over thirty papers on Chinese language teaching and research. He served as the president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of California in 1996-2000, and is still a member of the Executive Committee of the association.
patrick.lin@monterey.army.mil

Jeff Longwell
Institution: New Mexico State University
Coordinator of Spanish 111-212 and graduate teaching assistants at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Since 1994 he has been involved in developing tools for language learning using emerging technologies. He currently has ten published programs that are used across the nation that implement either multimedia CD-ROM platforms or web sites as language instructional aids. At New Mexico State University he has developed a methodology program for training language teachers in the integration of technology into language courses.
jelongwe@nmsu.edu

Norma G. López
Institution: DLIFLC
Has a Master's degree in Spanish and Portuguese from Tulane University and is presently a member of the Spanish DLPT (Defense Language Proficiency Test) development project at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey, CA. Previous to her assignment as a test developer, Ms. López taught Spanish and ESL to American military linguists at the Medina Regional Security Operations Center (MRSOC) in San Antonio, TX. During her DLIFLC assignment there, she developed a 20-hour English pronunciation syllabus on which her CATESOL pronunciation workshop is based. She has also taught EFL-ESP to international military personnel at the Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC) in San Antonio, TX where she gained experience teaching English pronunciation as an instructor in OPSAV, a speaking proficiency course for aviators.
zepolgn40@hotmail.com

Natalie Lovick
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute and is currently working in Faculty & Staff Development. Before rejoining DLI in 2002, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Russian and Russian Program Head at the Monterey Institute of International Studies for 21 years. Previous to this position, she worked as Supervisor of Russian Continuation Courses at the DLI for ten years. She has a Master's Degree from Northwestern University in Russian and Linguistics and another Master's Degree from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Teaching Foreign Languages. Her areas of expertise are pedagogy and practical classroom application of technology. Her current research interest is Immersion Education.
Natalie.Lovick@monterey.army.mil

Mary Ann Lyman-Hager
Institution: Director, Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) San Diego State University
Has served as the Director of the National Language Resource Center at San Diego State University and as Professor of French at San Diego State University since 1997. Currently interested in synchronous and asynchronous technology in distance learning applications for the teaching of foreign languages; she works with the California State University's Chancellor's office as French coordinator for the intermediate-advanced level French course taught via video conferencing and computer courseware (WebCT). She is interested in exploring teaching blended language and area studies courses, particularly in the less commonly taught languages, across the CSU system using advanced educational technologies and in assessing large scale programs.
mlymanha@mail.sdsu.edu

al-Husein N. Madhany
Institution: Georgetown University
Lecturer in Arabic at Georgetown University and a doctoral student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he studies classical Islamic history and thought. Since 2001 he has served as an Arabic technology consultant to dozens of individuals, private organizations and university departments. In addition to his widely acclaimed article and online PowerPoint presentation detailing the ins and outs of using Arabic with computers, he has penned articles for Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (ed. Josef W. Meri) and the Encyclopedia of Islam in America (ed. Jocelyne Cesari).
anm@post.harvard.edu

Tamas Marius
Institution: DLIFLC
Background includes an Ed. D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL and a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA specializing in Music Production and Engineering and the saxophone. His extensive experience of over 20 years of classroom teaching, which includes over 6 years of recording engineering instruction, also extends to over 20 years of audio-recording experience in professional recording studios. Combining media for educational purposes helped him teach using PC-based audio-visual language labs from SONY (UCF Orlando, FL) through the AES system (Cologne, Germany) to the Tandberg Lab (Hartnell College, Salinas, CA). Tamas Marius served as Technology Chair for the Orlando International TESOL Conference in 1998. He has been working with the Curriculum Development Division at the DLI since April 2003. Presently he is involved with the development of web-based distant education multimedia projects.
tamas.marius@monterey.army.mil

Richard Mayer
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor of Russian at the DLIFLC, where he is currently developing on-line language lessons for the GLOSS project in the Curriculum Development division.
Richard.Mayer@Monterey.army.mil

Kara McBride
Institution: University of Arizona
Ph.D. candidate in the University of Arizona interdisciplinary program Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her recent studies have focused on information literacy and the use of computer chat in the foreign language classroom. She is interested in what insights psycholinguistics can give to teaching and assessment practices and how that might be applied to educational software and web page design.
kmcbride@arizona.edu

Gregory Menke
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor, Faculty and Staff Development Division, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Instructional Technology and language education. M.A. from Ohio University in Linguistics. Has worked as an ESL instructor and Computer Science instructor for over twenty years.
gregory.menke@monterey.army.mil

Patricia Miller
Institution: California State University Northridge
Has been the faculty director of the Barbara Ann Ward Language Center at California State University, Northridge since 1992 and has been involved with the CSUN Community since 1976. She hold a BA and MA in French and Italian and has been a lecturer in both languages at CSUN since 1988. She has published several translations literary as well as technical works and has review language textbooks for Houghton Mifflin and McGraw Hill. She is an active member of SWALLT and IALLT, has presented numerous sessions and workshops on technology mediated language learning and has created training sessions for the CSUN Faculty. She is currently serving on several university committees dealing with ADA accessibility issues and the 'learning centered university' environment. She has consulted on lab design and has contributed to the IALLT Lab Design Manual. Currently, she serves as the Treasurer for SWALLT.
pmiller@csun.edu

Masahiko Minami
Institution: San Francisco State University
Associate Professor of Japanese at San Francisco State University. He has been involved in developing CALL programs for many years. At Harvard University, he worked with Professor Carol Chomsky on the development of CALL programs, using IBM's Info-Window System. Professor Minami has also written extensively on psycho/socio linguistics with particular emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of language development and narrative/discourse structure. He has published works covering cultural constructions of meaning, child care quality in Japan, and the experiences of East Asian students in US classrooms. His books include "Language Issues in Literacy and Bilingual/Multicultural Education," "Culture-specific Language Styles: The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy," "Culture and Psychology: People Around the World," "Yochien: Diversity and Change in Japanese Preschools," and "New Directions in Applied Linguistics of Japanese (II and III)." Dr. Minami obtained his doctorate from Harvard University.
mminami@sfsu.edu

David Moon
Institution: DLIFLC
Associate Professor at DLI. Educational Technology Specialist at Curriculum Development Division.
David.Moon@monterey.army.mil

Mohammad Naficy
Institution: DLIFLC
At present, I am an Assistant Professor at DLI where I have been teaching Farsi (my native language) for the last two years. Previously, I was Vice-President of a Fortune 500 Company, in charge of creating multi-media training materials for employee training and communications. I have a Master's degree in Multimedia (Radio-TV-Film) production from SF State University. I have also worked and taught in broadcasting for 8 years.
monaficy@earthlink.net

Ronald Nelson
Institution: DLIFLC
Has been at the Defense Language Institute for 21 years. Originally from Oregon, he has a B.A. in Foreign Language Education and an M.A. in German literature. He is a certified OPI tester of both English and German and has a certificate in the teaching of Translation and Interpretation.
Ronald.nelson@monterey.army.mil

Hannah Noerenberg
Institution: Alberta Education
Has taught high school German and French as a Second language for 14 years. As well, she has taught second language teaching methodology to pre-service language teachers at the University of Alberta. Currently, she is Project Coordinator with Alberta Education's LearnAlberta.ca's Languages Project.
hannah.noerenberg@gov.ab.ca

Gearoid O'Neill
Institution: University of Limerick
Member of the Computer Science Department at the University of Limerick. He has an interest in computer assisted language learning and is a member of the North American Assosciation for Celtic Language Teachers. He is director of the multi-media course, Crsa Scrobh Ilmhen run by the University with Muintearas, an Irish language community support group. He is involved in the provision of computer versions of an Irish and a Scottish Gaelic dictionary and in the development of an beginner's Irish<>Manx dictionary.
gearoid.oneill@ul.ie

Maria Ortenberg
Institution: DLIFLC
Has an M.A. in teaching foreign languages from St. Petersburg Pedagogical University, Russia. She is an Associate Professor and serves as a GLOSS (Global Online Language Support System) department chair at the Curriculum Development Division at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA. Currently Maria Ortenberg is in charge of the methodological aspect of the Internet Interactive Lessons produced by the SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) in 6 different languages.
maria.ortenberg@monterey.army.mil

Elena Osinskaya
Institution: University of Iowa
Originally from Russia, Elena Osinskaya is pursuing her second Master's degree in Educational Technology at the University of Iowa. Her first Master's degree is in Foreign Languages and ESL (Moscow State University).
elena-osinsky-1@uiowa.edu

Christopher Page
Institution: Episcopal High School
A native of Leesburg, Virginia, Chris earned a B.A. in Spanish and Economics from Hampden-Sydney College and an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in Madrid. At Episcopal High School Chris is Director of Curriculum Technology and Director of EHS’ Language Program in Segovia, Spain. He is currently writing a companion textbook for the #1 television series in Spain, "Cuontame como pas", and uses the series regularly in his classes. He is an avid proponent of DVD learning and is currently using video-streaming technology to bring Spanish Language and Culture to a wider audience. With 15 years of teaching experience and several years of living and working abroad, Chris brings significant leadership and innovation to his colleagues.
cbp@episcopalhighschool.org

Annemarie Pajewski
Institution: Mesa Community College
Born in Germany; having survived World War II, I immigrated to the US in 1962. Because of the war, I could not finish the Gymnasium in Germany. After my four children had reached school age, I entered Phoenix College, took remedial English, received my AA in two years and my Master's two years later, in Germanic Philology at Arizona State University. After my Master's, I received a fellowship from the Germanic Department of Rice University, Houston, Texas, from which I graduated with a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages in 1978. In August, 1978, I moved to Mexico City, where I taught German and English at the Universidad Nacional Aunoma de Mexico in Mexico City from 1978 to 1985 where I still have tenure. In 1985 I returned to Arizona where I have resided since. I am adjunct faculty of Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ since 1987, for German/Spanish classroom-and Internet courses.
pajewski@mail.mc.maricopa.edu

Valeria Palladino
Institution: University of Alberta
Graduate student at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, is completing her Master's degree in secondary education with a focus on Ethnolinguistic Vitality with regards to minority language communities. Expert and talented teacher of languages for the past 10 years, three of which include on-line teaching of Spanish and Italian high school courses, Valeria brings her expertise and passion for languages and technologies to all sessions she has been presenting at local, provincial and international conferences, including teacher's specialist council conference that she has also helped direct in 2002, through which she demonstrates the multitude of ways in which technology can support, enhance and facilitate language learning and teaching. Coordinator of the International and Heritage Languages Association (www.nahla.net ) and independent consultant, currently working on a digital resource development project for language resources for Spanish and French at the provincial government level, Valeria continues to blend her passion for languages (Spanish and Italian), community involvement and her technological expertise to fully support integration of technology and language instruction.
valeria@ualberta.ca

Svetlana Pavlov
Institution: DLIFLC
Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute and is currently working in Evaluation and Standardization department. Before joining DLI in 1995, she taught languages and Area Studies for 23 years in Russia, Hungary and US. She has a Masters Degree from Moscow State University in Linguistics and Ph.D from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Her areas of expertise are teaching, curriculum development and testing. Her current research interest is the application of statistical procedures in testing.
svetlana.pavlov@monterey.army.mil

Inmaculada Pertusa
Institution: Western Kentucky University
Assistant Professor of Spanish at Western Kentucky University. She completed her Ph.D at Colorado University in Boulder in 1996. She has published a number of articles on contemporary Hispanic women writers, focusing on issues of gender and sexual representation. She has developed a number of Spanish web sites, including the on-line Spanish courses for the Continuing Education Programa at the University of Kentucky. She also collaborated on development of Segovia Virtual, and Pasaporte a Esparta, two Web sites directed to students studying abroad.
inma.pertusa@wku.edu

Kathleen Plinske
Institution: McHenry County College
Serves as Coordinator of Media Development and Technology Training and is also an adjunct Spanish instructor at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Physics from Indiana University and has completed her Master's degree in Spanish from Roosevelt University. She has presented at various conferences nationally about best practices for integrating technology into the curriculum. She has designed and developed two online Spanish courses and works with faculty in developing technology-based materials and conducts workshops throughout the year.
kplinske@mchenry.edu

Sylvia Pelayo
Institution: Auralog
Has been working with Auralog assisting with the implementation of Auralog's TeLL me More language learning software in several educational institutes. She has represented Auralog at several national conferences.
Sylvia.Pelayo@us.auralog.com

Ludmila Provaznikova
Institution: University of Iowa
Ph.D. candidate in the program Foreign Language Acquisition, Research and Education at the University of Iowa with a focus on technology use in the second language classroom. Currently, she works as Assistant Course Coordinator for the first-year German courses at the Department of German and as Technical Assistant for Second Language graduate courses in the Language Media Center. She received her MA in German Literature from the University of North Carolina in 2001 and a Masters Degree in German as a Second Language and History from the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic, in 1999.
ludmila-provaznikova@uiowa.edu

Zhenlin Qiao
Institution: DLIFLC
Associate Professor, currently Chair of Chinese Department C, DLI; former Chairman of Chinese Language Teachers Association of California; currently master tester of Oral Proficiency Interview of Chinese Mandarin at DLI; wrote DLPT IV (Defense Language Proficiency Test) for US government agencies; worked as a Chinese Mandarin curriculum writer at DLI; received his MA in Teaching from Graduate School of Professional Studies at Lewis & Clark College, USA and MA in International Relations from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA.
zhenlin.qiao@monterey.army.mil

Karen Ragoonaden
Institution: University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Has specialized in the area of Second Language Acquisition with a particular emphasis on French as a Second Language within the North American context. Karen's research interest lies in the area of Collaborative Learning and the Internet. Data collected described and analysed several difficulties encountered by FFL and FSL learners in an Internet based program. More recently, she has been studying the effect of culture on language acquisition. Her other areas of interest and research include the following: Telecollaboration in a FSL environment, virtual classrooms: problems and principles, electronic communications in an Internet based program, language acquisition in a Second Language Classroom, interlanguage Socio-political foundations of French Immersion in Canada, sociolinguistic study of French in North America, communicative language teaching and learning and Literature and Language International Education.
kragoonaden@ouc.bc.ca

Montserrat Reguant
Institution: Mount Saint Mary's College
Yale PhD. Associate Professor and Chair of the Language and Culture Department at Mount Saint Mary's College.
mreguant@msmc.la.edu

Carol Reitan
Institution: City College of San Francisco
Coordinator of the Technology Learning Center and instructor of French at City College of San Francisco. She teaches an elementary French course online (on hiatus this year) and is the author of the French Online Grammar Quiz. She is also the editor of SWALLT Online, the newsletter of the SouthWest Association of Language Learning Technology (SWALLT).
creitan@ccsf.edu

Yoshiko Saito-Abbott
Institution: California State University Monterey Bay
Associate Professor of the Institute for World Languages and Cultures at California State University, Monterey Bay. She directs the Japanese language and area studies programs and offers first, third and fourth year Japanese language courses. Dr. Saito brings pedagogical expertise and her rich experience in designing technology enhanced, proficiency-oriented curricula and language programs. She won national recognition for developing an innovative Professional Development / Credentialing Model for in-service teachers in the state of Texas. She is currently site-director of the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project, Dr. Saito has wide rage of research activities. She has published articles in the areas of reading comprehension, teacher education, Business Japanese, and computer assisted language instruction and has delivered numerous papers at learned societies. Her recent publications on second language acquisition and Japanese language pedagogy are found in Journals such as The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, CALICO Journal, The Journal for Language for International Business. She has also published textbooks and Japanese language teaching computer assisted language-learning programs. She conducts numerous workshops on professional development. She recently organized a state wide Technology conference entitled Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Cultures.
Yoshiko_Saito-Abbott@csumb.edu

Natalia Shevchenko
Institution: Willamette University
Currently serving as the Director of the Language Learning Center at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She has an undergraduate degree in English as a Foreign Language and an MA in Second Language Acquisition. She is a member of the Integrated Technology Team at Willamette University, providing leadership in technology integration and support for the Foreign Language Faculty and students hrough group educational initiatives and individual support.
nshevche@willamette.edu

Sonia Shiri
Institution: UC, Berkeley
Sonia Shiri is the Arabic Program Coordinator at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently the Academic Coordinator at the Berkeley Language Center . A graduate in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Sonia Shiri taught Arabic and linguistics at Edinburgh, Exeter and Oxford, U.K., before moving to UC Berkeley in 2000. She is curretly designing a distance learning project of elementary Arabic for UC System campuses without Arabic programs.
shiri@socrates.berkeley.edu

Ying Shiroma
Institution: DLIFLC
School: Defense Language Institute. Rank: Assistant Professor. Special field: Teaching and curricula development. Educational Background: BA, Beijing Normal Un. major in Chinese Language & literature MA, University of Hawaii at Manoa, major in Asian studies.
ying3766@yahoo.com

Alan Sparkman
Institution: MPUSD
Alan Sparkman teaches English language development and Spanish at Seaside High School in Seaside, California.  He has taught English as a second language in a variety of contexts ranging from middle school to university in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.  He has a keen interest in both teaching and learning languages.  Through the years he has explored ways to integrate technology into the classroom to provide learners with opportunities to build skills, carry out projects, and work cooperatively.  Currently he is working on Moodle websites that serve as a focus for organization and activity for three classes.  Alan is also working together with MIIS graduate student Nobuki Kakizaki to train three students in Dreamweaver as they develop a website in which their class will dislay their writing.  Alan has a B.A.in Spanish from the University of Maryland and a M.A. in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington.
sparkmanz@yahoo.com

Melissa Stewart
Institution: Western Kentucky University
Associate professor in the Dept. of Modern Languages at Western Kentucky University. For a number of years, she has served as the director of one of the Kentucky Institute for International Studies summer programs in Spain. Her research interests include contemporary narrative by Catalan women and the relations between autobiography and fiction in the writing of peninsular authors. Dr. Stewart has also done collaborative work on language learning and the study abroad experience, and the incorporation of technology into the foreign language curriculum. She is also the co-developer of web projects about Business in Spain and Spanish study abroad, and has worked on a homework system for beginning Spanish students.
melissa.stewart@wku.edu

LeeAnn Stone
Institution: Houghton Mifflin
(Ed.D., Pepperdine Univeristy), World Language Specialist for Houghton Mifflin, has been providing technology integration support and training opportunities for language teachers for 20 years. Her work in this field includes providing consulting and professional development workshops for colleges, universities and school districts across the country, integration training and materials development for the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA and serving as coordinator and lead facilitator for ACTFL's Teaching with Technology workshops. She is a former Spanish instructor and Language Lab Director at U.C. Irvine, and past President of the International Association for Language Learning and Technology (IALLT). Her publications include Task-Based Activities: A Communicative Approach to Language Laboratory Use and Task-Based I: More Communicative Activities for the Language Lab.
leeann_stone@hmco.com

Maki Takata
Institution: San Francisco State University
Graduate teaching associate of the Japanese Program at San Francisco State University, California. She recently presented "Methods for Teaching Japanese Numeric Classifier" with Masahiko Minami and Kayoko Imagawa at the Foreign Language Association of Northern California (FLANC) Fall 2004 Conference at the University of California Berkeley, CA. She is currently an MA candidate in Japanese at San Francisco State University.
mannaku@hotmail.com

Alicia Van Altena
Institution: Yale University
Senior Lector in Spanish work at Yale since 1987. Degree (it's been "translated" as Master) in Foreign Language Teaching from the University of San Juan, Argentina, 1978. Taught in different private and public institutions at high school, college and University levels since 1965-1996.
alicia.vanaltena@yale.edu

Ilona Vandergriff
Institution: San Francisco State University
Associate Professor at San Francisco State University where she coordinates the German program. Her research interests are in first/second language usage and teaching with technology.
vdgriff@sfsu.edu

Leo van Lier
Institution: Monterey Institute of International Studies
Professor of Educational Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is the author of several books and
numerous articles on linguistics and language education. In the last few years he has presented on topics such as ecology, sociocultural theory, and technology at conferences and universities in many different countries. His most recent book is entitled The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective (Kluwer Academic, 2004). His current interests include ecological linguistics, semiotics, and equitable uses of technology in education.
leo.vanlier@miis.edu

Katherine Watson
Institution: Coastline Community College
Has been teaching French, English, linguistics, anthropology, and English as a Second Language for four decades, first in the traditional classroom and then at a distance and online. Her "French Topics" courses at Coastline Community College were the first, and remain the only, completely-online offerings in the Coast Community College District, and they grew out of the first online foray made by the Annenberg/CPB Project, "French in Action Online", which she co-conceived, co-developed, and taught. Dr. Watson's work in the areas of language learning online have been published by the League for Innovation, the International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Temple University, and Virginia Tech, among others.
bizarrerie@aol.com

Kalman Weinfild
Institution: DLIFLC
Born in Israel. Received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Cum Laude from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1977. Received a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Massachusetts in 1980. Senior Product Engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor on the development of computer components. Worked as a Product Engineering Manager at Intel, responsible for the commercialization of several microprocessors and other components. Components Engineering Manager, New Product Introduction Manager and Director of Production at Silicon Graphics with responsibilities spanning the high-end Graphics Workstations. V. P. of Operations at several start-up companies in the Computer Graphics and Telecommunication fields. Currently Chairperson of a multi-language department at the Continuing Education Directorate of DLI, encompassing intermediate and advanced courses in Chinese, Korean and Russian.
kalman.weinfild@monterey.army.mil

Mary Wildner-Bassett
Institution: University of Arizona
Earned her M.A. (with distinction) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her Ph.D. in 1983 at the University of Bochum in the Federal Republic of Germany. She joined the faculty of the University of Arizona in 1986 after teaching for two years in the Zentrales Fremdspracheninstitut at the University of Hamburg. Her publications include Improving Pragmatic Aspects of Learners' Interlanguage (Tbingen, 1984), Zielpunkt Deutsch (N.Y., 1992) and many contributions to anthologies and journals on foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and computer- mediated second language communication. She is a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. She enjoys teaching culture and language courses on the undergraduate level and professional development, pedagogy, and applied linguistics theory and application courses on the graduate level, and any teaching that involves computer-mediated communication, using the COHlab facility at the College of Humanities.
wildnerb@u.arizona.edu

Hisako Yamashita
Institution: Monterey Institute of International Studies
Hisako Yamashita has taught Japanese in Japan and in the US, and English in Japan.She.is currently involved in training K-12 teachers in project-based learning using technology. Recently she completed a study on the use of the course management system Moodle in CALL teacher training. Last fall, Hisako worked collaboratively with Dr. Leo van Lier on a graduate-level online CALL course. Last June she presented at the JALT CALL Conference in Mito, Japan. She will complete her degree from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in May. Starting June, she will take a position as Lecturer at Kanda Gaigo University in Japan.
hisako.yamashita@miis.edu

Mimi Yu
Institution: University of Nevada, Reno
Lecturer and Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Mimi is also Director of the Multimedia Language Center within the department. She received her Master's degree in Japanese Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She joined UNR in 1989 and created the Japanese language program on campus. Her special interests are incorporating technologies into language instruction and teaching methodology.
mimi@unr.edu