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Thomas F. Abbott
Institution: California State University Monterey Bay
Lectures in Japanese Area Studies at California State University Monterey Bay where he has developed courses in Japanese Culture and Civilization, Pop-Culture, Cinema and The Japanese Mind, Japanese Economic History and Business and the Japanese-American Experience. His interdisciplinary background includes economics, psychology, business administration, computer science and international management studies. He has taught in America and Japan and served for seventeen years as the Executive Director of PEACE•USA, a private non-profit multinational educational exchange foundation. He has consulted with and worked in major U.S. and Japanese high tech firms including NEC, Apple Computer and Mitsubishi Steel. He has developed a multimedia simulation for Business Japanese at The University of Texas at Austin. Since 1993 he has been involved in teacher training and professional development for foreign language teachers. His publications have focused on the application of computers to language instruction. In addition to teaching, he is currently serving as an executive member of the California Japanese Framework Project Steering Committee and as Technology Director for the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project.
Tom_Abbott@csumb.edu

Lee Abraham
Institution: Villanova University
Lee B. Abraham is Assistant  Professor of Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova  University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics, teaching methodology, and instructional technologies.  Professor Abraham also serves as the coordinator of beginning and intermediate-level Spanish courses and is the Assistant Software Review Editor of the CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Journal.  Professor Abraham's research focuses on sociocognitive approaches to second language writing, reading, and vocabulary learning with multimedia and the World Wide Web as well as the integration of technologies for second language and cultural learning in classroom L2 learning and in study abroad environments.
lee.abraham@villanova.edu

Melissa Anderson
Institution: Pepperdine University
Melissa Anderson has worked with a variety of online educational technologies for the past seven years as a director of education technology at both NYU and Pepperdine. In these roles, she was responsible for both the technical management of the system as well as the training and support of faculty, staff and students. Melissa has her MA in Educational Policy and MBA in Management, both from Columbia University. She is currently finishing her doctorate in educational technology at Pepperdine University, with dissertation work focused on collaborative learning. Melissa also is a faculty member in the Masters in Educational Technology program at Pepperdine University, where she teaches two courses- Managing Technology for Change and Team Leadership.
manders2@pepperdine.edu

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

Natasha Anthony
Natasha Anthony is an Online Instructor of Russian and Online Russian course developer at the University System of Georgia. She is an International Language Lab Director and Adjunct Instructor in Web Design at Hudson Valley Community College. She designs and teaches online and face-to-face faculty development courses on the use of technologies in foreign language teaching at SUNY-Albany and HVCC. Natasha is also a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction at SUNY-Albany. Her research covers Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and teacher education.

Hiromi Aoki
Institute: UCLA
Hiromi Aoki is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at UCLA.  She also works as an Instructional Technology Consultant at UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities.

Joonki Baek
Joonki Baek teaches Korean at Distance Learning Division of Defense Language Institute

Cecilia Barbudo
Institution: DLI
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.

Timothy Berndt
Tim Berndt is currently the Assistant Dean of Asian School I at the Defense Language Institute. A graduate of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Chinese-English Translation), Tim has worked in higher education for nearly 20 years.  Before becoming Assistant Dean, Tim was a professor of Chinese and later a Language Technology Specialist in Asian School I. From the late 80ís to the mid 90ís, Tim lived in Taiwan, teaching Foreign Language and Literature Department courses and Music Technology classes at Tunghai University. In the evenings and on weekends he also taught Mandarin to expatriates, did freelance translation and interpretation work, and was a talk-show producer and host on local Taichung City radio.  After receiving his MA, Tim returned to Taiwan to teach translation and interpretation at Chang Jung University. Since returning to the United States, Tim has also taught numerous translation courses at the Monterey Institute of International  Studies.

Eva Maria Bill
Institution: McHenry County College
Eva Maria Bill currently is a Spanish instructor at McHenry County College. 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.
ebill@mchenry.edu

Abdelhak Bouhaja
Mr. Abdelhak Bouhaja is currently a Senior Instructor at Middle East School II at DLI.  He likes to use technology in classrooms every day, and one of the teachers who uses Multi-media Language LAB regularly. 

Masako Boureston
Institution: DLI-FLC
Masako Boureston is Program Leader for the Pashto Program at DLIFLC Emerging Languages Task Force.
masako.boureston@monterey.army.mil

Valerie Braimah
Insight Education Group
 Valerie Braimah holds a Master's Degree in Education Policy from Johns Hopkins University. She is affiliated with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Staff Development Council (NSDC), the California Charter School Association (CCSA), and the International Reading Association, and is currently working as an Educational Consultant and Director of Partnership for Insight Education Group, Inc. http://www.insighteducationgroup.com/main.html. In addition to her work as a classroom teacher, she has experience in the areas of staff development and program evaluation.  She provides consultation, training, and technical assistance services to teachers, schools, and districts, and published the Service-Learning Leadership Development Training Guide to help educational and community-based organizations build leadership capacity for their service-learning programs. She has led several workshops in "Backward Design", a standard-based process for curriculum design.

Lisa M. Carlucci
Institution: Melvin H. Kreps Middle School
Ms. Carlucci is a middle school world language teacher (Spanish).  She has teaching certifications in elementary, Italian, social studies (K-8), and bilingual.  She received her M.S. in Management from Thomas Edison State College, B.A. in Spanish and Liberal Arts from the University of Pittsburgh, Certificate of Italian as a Foreign Language from l'Universita' di Siena (Italy), a Certificate in Medical Interpretation & Translation from the University of Massachusetts and is currently pursuing graduate studies in the field of education.  She has received grants from the East Windsor Hightstown Foundation for Educational Excellence and NJEA Frederick L. Hipp Foundation for Excellence in Education.  She has been selected to participate at the Suusan J. Epply Storytelling Institute - Princeton University, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Institute - Monmouth University, Teachers as Scholars - Princeton University.   Ms. Carlucci worked as a Cross-Cultural trainer,  translator, and  taught English for Speakers of Other Languages.
lcarlucci@comcast.net

Marina Cobb
Marina Cobb, 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.

Fernando Contreras-Hernandez
Major in Spanish. Student of Master of Spanish. Language Laboratory TechnicianEnglish teacher, fourth year  Miriam College High School

Kathryn de la Fuente
Institution: DLI-FLC
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
Institute: DLI
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.

Jong Oh Eun
Institution: DLI- FLC
Jong Oh Eun received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. His recent co-authored articles on Korean speech level have been published in Language Sciences and Linguistics. He is interested in discourse analytic approaches to grammar and material development using the media resources. He is currently teaching Korean as Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center.
jong.eun@monterey.army.mil

Teresa Fernandez-Ulloa
Institution: CSU-Bakersfield
Ph. D. in Spanish Language and Linguistics, University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). She has taught courses in several universities in Spain: University of Deusto, Bilbao; University of the Basque Country, Vitoria; University of Valladolid, and University of Cantabria, Santander. She has been visiting professor at the East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Now, she is Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics, and French Language at the California State University, Bakersfield. Editor and owner of a contemporary literature publishing house in Spain (Ediciones Gamuza Azul). Areas of specialization and research: Sociolinguistics, Languages in Contact, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis. Projects of research (CSUB) that she is working in at the present moment: Media Literacy: Using Technology to Teach and Motivate Student Spanish Phonetics: Sounds, Accent and Intonation.
tfernandez_ulloa@csub.edu

Jack Franke
Institution: DLI-FLC
Jack Franke is Professor of Russian at the Russian Language School, Defense Language Institute (DLI), Monterey, CA. He previously served in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany as the Director of Computer-Aided Language Instruction. He is a SMART Board Exemplary Educator and is presently using iPods to enhance L2 speaking proficiency. Franke has presented at national and international conferences, and presently is on the Editorial Board of the CALICO journal. Jack's current research interests include computer-aided language instruction and developing L2 speaking proficiency.
drfranke@geocities.com

Vatche Ghazarian
Vatche Ghazarian, Ph.D., is Program Leader for the Uzbek Program and Technology at DLIFLC Emerging Languages Task Force.

Luba Grant
Institution: DLI-FLC-Asian School 1
Luba Grant is currently the Dean of Asian School I, which provides language and area studies instruction in Chinese Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, and Tagalog at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC).  A graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, she has held numerous leadership positions at DLI including: Dean of Middle East School II (Arabic and Persian-Farsi), Dean - Russian School II and later the School of Russian Studies. Dean Grant currently serves as a reviewer for Dialog on Language Instruction and is a board member of ACTFL 's  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 Modeling Virtual Environments and Simulation Institute has led the development and evaluation efforts of the Arabic language and culture training program that incorporates computer-generated Avatars in a virtual  environment.
luba.grant@monterey.army.mil

Cara Nicole Greene
Institution: Dublin City University
Cara Greene is a Ph.D. research student in the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) at Dublin City University (DCU). Her research interests include Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Information, Communication Technology (ICT) in education, special education, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and dyslexia. Her postgraduate research at the School of Computing in DCU focuses on the use of CALL to cater to the specific needs of teenage students with dyslexia.
cgreene@computing.dcu.ie

Teresa Gryminska
Institution: DLI-FLC
Hold a Ph.D. and MA in philology from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Warsaw, and MATFL from the MIIS. Taught English at the University of Warsaw before coming to the DLI.  At the DLI, worked first as a Polish Department teacher and supervisor, then as Faculty and Staff Development Division specialist, German coordinator and test writer at the Testing Division, and Russian Department teacher and team leader.  Currently serve as a Russian curriculum development specialist at the Curriculum Division.  During my work at the DLI, served on numerous boards and committees, such as the Merit Pay Boards, Accreditation Subcommittee, Quality Review Committee, and FPDD Proposal Board Committee.  Served as DLI Academic Advisory Council Vice-Chair and European School Faculty Advisory Committee Chair.  Received Public Service Employee of the Year and DLI Civilian Instructor of the Year Awards.  Awarded professor is  rank.  Frequently gave presentations at conferences and have publications in professional journals.
teresa.gryminska@monterey.army.mil

Kawther Hakim
Kawther Hakim is currently an Associate Professor at the Continuing Education- Distance Learning Division at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC).  He holds a doctorate in Education from the University of San Francisco and a Masterís degree in Linguistics from California State University at Fresno, California. He has developed and assisted in a number of Arabic language projects and Arabic Online, taught Arabic at DLIFLC and coordinated and taught Arabic at MIIS.

Roland Hernandez
Institution: Houghton Mifflin
Roland Hernandez is V.P. Publisher for World Languages at Houghton Mifflin. In his 25 years in publishing, he has developed and launched some of the most successful language programs (including German, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish) on the market.
leeann_stone@hmco.com

Vu Ho
Institution: Texas Tech University
Vu Ho is currently working for his second master's degree in Applied Linguistics, Texas Tech University. He obtained his first master's degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His main research areas include technology-based language instructions and language assessment.
vu.l.ho@ttu.edu

Su-Ling Hsueh
Institution: DLI-FLC
Academic History: Ph. D. candidate, Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University,  Provo, Utah, Jan 2006. MS in Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Aug 2005. BA in English Language and Literature at Providence University, Jun 1998.Research and Publication:   That which I do, I understand, Bridge Publication, Sep, 2005, Monterey, CA. Design,Develop and Evaluate Chinese Radicals and Characters Tutorial, Brigham Young University, Aug, 2005, Provo, UT. The Generative Aspect of Design Theory, ICALT Conference, Jul, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.  American and Chinese Culture: Conceptions of individualism, competition, authority, and time with their implications for distance learning. GCCCE Conference, Jun, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii. Work Experience:  Senior Language Instructor, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA, at present. Teaching and Research Positions, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Sep, 2003-May, 2005 Sales Manager, E-Mark Hardware Ltd., Changhua, Taiwan, Jan, 2003-Jun, 2003.  Sales and Marketing Manager, CST Asia Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sep, 1999-Dec, 2002.  English Language Instructor, various private schools, Changhua, Taiwan, Jul 1996-Aug, 1999
kim0821@yahoo.com

Hussny Ibrahim
Institution: DLI-FLC
Currently serve as a department chairperson in Middle East school II at   Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.  Played a  key role in developing DLPT5, which is a test used in assessing the foreign language proficiency level of US government personnel. Serving as the Target Language Expert in the Machine Translation Project, a joint project between DLI and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provided language analysis to Arabic reading texts.  Within the framework of Qatar Education Reform Initiative, worked with McGraw Hill Company as an Arabic Language Expert and the head of the Arabic review team. Authored and delivered  several presentations on teaching and testing MSA and Arabic dialects [i.e. UCLA, Georgetown University and DLIFLC]. Hold an MA degree in Middle East Area Studies from San Francisco State University, a BS degree in Mass Communication, and the CCC Instructor Credentials from the State of California.
hussny.ibrahim@monterey.army.mil

Olga Jimenez-Bailess
Olga Jimenez Bailess has a Master of Arts in Language Pedagogy and specializes in Spanish language teaching with technology. She currenty teaches both fully online and face-to-face courses of beginning and intermediate-level Spanish.

Christopher Jones
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher M. Jones is Teaching Professor of French and Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Director of the Modern Language Resource Center in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He teaches a variety of courses in French language and French and francophone studies. Research areas include Quebec studies and the development of on-line courses for language instruction.
cjones@andrew.cmu.edu

Tomomi Kakegawa
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
 Native of Japan, BA in Liberal Arts from International Christian University, MA in Comparative Literature from Penn State, Ph.D in Linguistics from Michigan State. 
kakegat@uwec.edu

P. Toyoko Kang
Institution: University of Guam
I obtained B.A. in Russian in 1977 and M.A. in Russian Linguistics in1981, from Kobe City University of Foreign Languages, in Japan.  In 1993, I earned Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.  Since then, I have been teaching Japanese language at the University of Guam.
toyokokang@guam.net

Sahie Kang
Institution: DLI-FLC
Dr. Sahie Kang is a Professor and Dean of Middle East School II at Defense Language Institute.  Before she took over the Deanship three years ago, she served as a chairperson in a Korean Department in Asian School III, as a Test Developer in Evaluation and Standardization Division, as a Curriculum Developer in Curriculum Division, and still serves as an OPI tester at DLI.  She has given numerous presentations in National Conferences of ACTFL, AATK, NCOLCTL, and LSA and published many articles on Foreign Language Teaching/Learning and Linguistics.  As an ACTFL OPI trainer and a DLI OPI Master Tester, she also participated in Korean Flagship Program at University of Hawaii and University of California at Los Angeles by training their teaching staff with Proficiency Level Guidelines and ACTFL OPI training.  She currently serves as a Vice President of International Association of Korean Language Education that has over 1000 membership worldwide. 
sahie.kang@monterey.army.mil

Heidi Kent
Institution:
Heidi Brumbaugh Kent is an ESL/literacy tutor and self-taught web programmer. She has a bachelor's degree in Russian Language, and is planning to enroll in Graduate School in the fall with an emphasis in applied linguistics. She developed Personal Educational Press as a tool to help teach her children how to read, and has expanded it over the years to be a generalized educational tool. Heidi also moderates a fiction writing group, and is an active member of the Santa Cruz Literacy Program Steering Committee, where her contributions emphasize technology.
heidi_b@pacbell.net

Hanan Khaled
Institute: DLI
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 in a private school for 3 years 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.’

Masato Kikuchi
Masato Kikuchi (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Associate Professor of Japanese at Georgia Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. research focused on the areas of application of natural language processing techniques such as development and evaluation of intelligent computer-assisted language instruction, discourse/pragmatics processing, and psycholinguistics. He was the Assistant Director of a research project which developed Macintosh-based computer programs called "Understanding Written Japanese" at the University  of Pittsburgh. He has completed a two-year online language course sequence in Japanese for the University System Georgia and made presentations and workshops in regional and national conferences (CALICO, FLEAT-5, SEATJ, etc.).  He is currently a co-director of summer, intensive study abroad program (Language for Business and Technology) and working on the project involving translation of technical and business documents.

Dr. Dohee Koo
Institution: DLI
I majored in Korean linguistics at Yonsei University in Korea, and received
a doctorate in foreign language education at Ohio State University. I taught
Korean for more than 10 years both in Korea and in the U.S. My students were
college students and adult learners mostly from Japan and the U.S. My
current interest in foreign language teaching is increasing awareness of
lexical phrases among teachers and learners, promoting learner autonomy,
developing pragmatic and cultural competence in learners, designing
contextualized and simulated classroom tasks, and using authentic materials
and media in teaching.

Irene Krasner
Irene Krasner (MIIS, MATFL 2000) is the Academic Specialist for the European and Latin American School at the Defense Language Institute. She has presented previously at conferences on the role of culture in language teaching and second language acquisition.

Ganna Kudyma
Institute: UCLA
Dr. Ganna Kudyma is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA and serves as the Program Coordinator for the First Year Russian Program.  Ganna has taught Russian and Ukrainian at all levels, from elementary to heritage.  She also teaches various cultural courses at UCLA.

Teresa Lee
Institution: DLI-FLC & MIIS
teresa902lee@yahoo.com

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

I-Hao Li
Institution: UC Berkeley
 I-Hao Li is a lecturer in the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley.
ihli_@berkeley.edu

Peter Liddell
Institution:Professor of German
Academic Director of the Humanities Computing & Media Centre
University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Peter Liddell is Professor of German, and Academic Director of the Humanities Computing & Media Centre, at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. He is Past President (2003-2005) of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technology: http://iallt.org ). He is also a founding member of the Board of WorldCALL: http://worldcall.org , and of PacificCALL: http://pacall.org . He has published mainly on CALL and SLA, and is an Editorial Board member of CALL journals. As a keynote speaker, he has presented at conferences on 4 continents. As a consultant on CALL and IT in Higher Education, he has published reports on grant-funded CALL projects for the Swedish government, and on implementing Information Technology in Higher Education for university leaders in Germany, Sweden, and Canada.

Patrick Lin
Institution: DLI-FLC
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

Jack Jinghui Liu
Institution: CSU- Fullerton
Dr. Jack Jinghui Liu is a coordinator of Chinese Studies Program at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, California State University at Fullerton. He received his PhD in foreign language education from the Purdue University at West Lafayette. His teaching and research interests include Chinese language, business Chinese, business communication and international education
jinghuiliu@fullerton.edu

Ted Liu
Institution: UCLA
Ted Liu is the Foreign Language IT Coordinator at UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities. His mission is to support and encourage the effective integration of technology in the foreign language community at UCLA. Ted has a background in Linguistics and Computer Science.
ted@humanities.ucla.edu

Natalie Lovick
Institution: DLI-FLC
Assistant Professor in Faculty & Staff Development at the Defense Language Institute. Before joining DLI for the second time in 2002, she worked as Assistant Professor and Russian Program Head at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) for over 20 years. Previous to this position, she worked as Supervisor of Continuation Courses at the DLI for 10 years. She holds a Masters Degree from Northwestern University in Russian and Linguistics and a second Masters Degree from MIIS in Teaching Foreign Languages. Her areas of expertise and current interests are in pedagogy,Task Based Instruction and the use of technology in the classroom.
Natalie.Lovick@monterey.army.mil

Joseph Magedanz
Institution: University of Redlands
Joseph Magedanz is assistant professor of German in the Department of Modern Literatures and Languages at the University of Redlands, CA.
joseph_magedanz@redlands.edu

Tamas Marius
Institution: DLI-FLC
Tamas Marius has 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. His extensive experience of over 20 years of classroom teaching, which includes over 6 years of recording engineering instruction, also incorporates over 20 years of audio-recording experience. 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 worked as an
Associate Professor with the Curriculum Development Division at the DLI since March 2003. Presently he is involved with the development of web-based distant education multimedia projects.
tamas.marius@monterey.army.mil

Najwa Masri
Ms. Najwa Masri is currently an Assistant Professor at Middle East School II at DLI.  She likes to use technology in classrooms every day, and one of the teachers who uses Multi-media Language LAB regularly.  She is very active in different kinds of Academic activities in Middle East School II such as Immersion and Arabic Speaking Club.

Richard Mayer
Institution: DLI-FLC
 Richard Mayer is an Assistant Professor at DLIFLC in the Curriculum Development Division.
richard.mayer@monterey.army.mi

David Moon
Institution: DLI-FLC
Educational Technology Specialist at Curriculum Development Division of Defense Language Institute. He has developed web-based language learning activities at the institute.
David.Moon@monterey.army.mil

Thomas Plagwitz
Institution: University of Tampa
Language Lab Coordinator, Ph.D. (Heidelberg), M.A. (Halifax)
tplagwitz@ut.edu

Franco Paoletti
Dr. Franco Paoletti is an ESL Science and Chemistry high school teacher.  He holds a PhD in Physics from líUniversitaí di Roma (Italy)  an M.S. in Management from Thomas Edison State College and a Technical Diploma from Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo (Spain).  He has teaching certifications in science, mathematics and elementary.  He is currently obtaining certifications in Italian and bilingual education.  He has established a ìpoint-of-serviceî computer lab in his ESL science classroom using grants and institutional donations.  He has recently returned from a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund teacher program.  Prior to entering the teaching field, Dr. Paoletti was a physics researcher at Columbia and MIT.  He also worked at research laboratories in England, Italy and France.  He has been a speaker and contributor to 80+ national and international conferences and author and co-author of 45+ technical peer-reviewed papers.

Svetlana Pavlov
Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey. Received her M.A. in philology, Moscow State University; Ph.D. in international policy studies from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Over her 25-year career, she was involved in teaching foreign languages and Area Studies. She also served as a subject matter expert on various test and curriculum projects at the DLI.

Aris Penaranda
Pioneered the English for Social Justice curriculum in Miriam College High School. English teacher, fourth year  Miriam College High School

Kathleen Plinske
Serves as Coordinator of Media Development and Technology Training and is also an Spanish instructor at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL. She is currently pursuring a doctorate of education at Pepperdine 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.

Milad Rizkallah
Institution: DLI-FLC
 Dr. Milad Rizkallah holds a Ph.D. in modern philology from Rom University.His teaching career started in the 1970, some 35 years ago (23 of them, so far, are at the DLI) Prior to the DLI, he taught at "Ain-Shams University-Faculty of Languages-Romance Languages Department. He is a specialist in Foreign Languages and Linguistics.  He is now Academic Specialist in the Department C, School of Middle East III.
milad.rizkallah@monterey.army.mil

Peiyu Roth
Assistant professor at Defense Language Institute (Curriculum Development Division) and working as a course writer of the Chinese Basic Course development project.

Fernando Rubio
Institution: University of Utah
 Fernando Rubio is Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics and coordinator of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His main areas of research and publication are Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Methodologies.
fernando.rubio@languages.utah.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

Barbara Sawhill
Institution: Oberlin College
Barbara is the Director of the Cooper International Learning Center at Oberlin College (Oberlin,OH)  She is the President Elect of IALLT and the Associate Editor of the IALLT Journal. 
barbara.sawhill@oberlin.edu

Sharon Scinicariello
Institution: University of Richmond
Sharon Scinicariello (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is the Director of the Multimedia Language Laboratory at the University of Richmond, Virginia, where she is a member of the Modern Literatures and Cultures faculty. She has presented extensively on the use of technology in language learning, and her publications include a chapter in the ACTFL volume Technology-Enhanced Language Learning.  Since the fall of 2003 she has been partnering with University of Richmond faculty to implement technology-based student projects that incorporate both standards-based language learning and multiple literacies.
sscinica@richmond.edu

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

Peter Silzer
Institution: DLI-FLC
Dr. Peter Silzer has spent over 30 years in linguistic research and teaching. From 1975-1992 he lived in Indonesia and learned Bahasa Indonesia, as well as one of the minority languages. From 1992-2005 he taught a variety of linguistic and translation-related courses as an Associate Professor at Biola University in La Mirada, CA. In May 2005 he was hired by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA as a teacher of Indonesian. In this capacity he has researched available on-line materials in Indonesian language study and has found a wealth of ideas and materials.
Peter.Silzer@monterey.army.mil

Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of California in Berkeley, where she teaches a variety of Advanced Language courses, with particular interests in Phonetics, Listening Comprehension, and French for Politics, Economics, and Business. Her recent focus has been on integrating multimedia into all her courses, most notably for Phonetics and Listening Comprehension.  As its first user, she has contributed several modifications to the Language Lab emulating software LangLab.
sorgengd@berkeley.edu

Zoran Starcevic
Institution: DLI-FLC
Dr. Zoran Starcevic is an Associate Professor at Faculty Development Division, Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California, where he conducts faculty development workshops and courses in the areas of instructional methodology, foreign language education, educational leadership, and team building.
zoranstar@email.wintu.edu

LeeAnn Stone
Institution: Houghton Mifflin
Dr. LeeAnn Stone has been active in the field of language learning and technology since 1984.  A former Language Lab Director at UC Irvine, she is a past President of IALLT and author of numerous books and articles on using technology effectively for language teaching and learning. As a language technology educator, Dr. Stone has provided faculty professional development workshops at more than 75 schools, districts, colleges, universities and government agencies across the country.
leeann_stone@hmco.com

Laurette Suter
Institution: CSU-Sacramento
 Prof Suter has a strong background in both technology and language acquisition, working 20 years at the CSU Sacramento Media Services Department where she headed audio/visual/media services for faculty, combined with extensive training in computer programming, and teaching French and English at various levels.  Currently she is the CSUS Language Lab Director & French faculty member.  She uses technology in all her courses, and as a member of the CSU Virtual Language Lab (VLL) consortium, developed the first online Beginning French course, offered to the entire CSU system for Fall 2005-Spring 2006. Her philosophy in learning is that it needs to be fun, with an emphasis on building student confidence in speaking French.
suterla@csus.edu

Richard Sutton
Institution: Univ. System of Georgia Board of Regents
Richard C. Sutton is Director of International Programs and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs at the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.  He has held academic affairs positions with the Iowa Board of Regents and the University of Wisconsin System Administration prior to joining the University System of Georgia in 1998. He was director of international education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 1984 to 1995, where he also was a faculty member in foreign languages and international studies. A Russian historian by training, he earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University and his A.B. from Duke University.  He is the principal investigator for USG's NSEP grant to develop and teach on-line courses in less commonly taught languages.
richard.sutton@usg.edu

Yvette Khristine Valdez
Institution: Miriam College High School
 Pioneered the English for Social Justice curriculum in Miriam College High School
ykrvaldez@yahoo.com

Michael Vezilich
Institution: DLIFLC- Continuing Education-Distance Learning
Michael Vezilich is currently Dean of Distance Learning Division.
michael.vezilich@monterey.army.mil

Katherine Watson
Institution: Coastline Community College
Dr. Katherine Watson has been teaching French, English, linguistics, anthropology, and English as a Second language for nearly four decades, at first in the traditional classroom, later at a distance, and more recently online. Named as a co-developer and -instructor for the Annenberg/CPB (Corp. for Public Broadcasting)Project's first foray into online learning, "French in Action Online", she was also the first to launch a fully online course in the Coast Community College District. The latter, "French Topics", retains some of the same students who entered it initially in 1993. Dr. Watson has published papers on language learning and online education in Syllabus Press, Selected Papers from the International Conference on Teaching and Learning, and T-CON, among others. She has been a regular presenter at TechED, the League for Innovation, and the International Conference on Teaching and Learning.
bizarrerie@aol.com

Victoria K. Williams
Victoria K. Williams is the Manager of Classroom Services at the Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley.

Nutschelle Anne Windsor
Pioneered the English for SOcial Justice curriculum in Miriam College High School

Jeff Winters
Institution: CSU-Long Beach
Mr. Jeff  Winters, Director of the College of Liberal Arts Language Lab, has an M.A, in Asian Studies and has worked extensively on developing multi-media and web-based programs. His experience includes programming, testing, designing and evaluating software as a software engineer and language instructor.  He has served as Director of Chinese Computing at the Chinese International School in Hong Kong and as a language specialist in the New Media Center at CSULB. Mr. Winters also co-authored and programmed two computer-assisted learning programs for Chinese,  Liwin's  Cyber Chinese and Pinyin Master. Mr. Winters teaches Chinese at California  State University  Long Beach.
jwinter2@csulb.edu

Lee Witta
Dr. Lea Witta is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include research methodologies in educational data analysis, evaluating research measurements and evaluating change using growth curve methodology.

Heping Xu
Institution: DLI-FLC-dept E
Assistant  Professor, Chinese Department E, Defense Language Institute. Education and Experience in Teaching: MA in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. MA in Chinese linguistics. Teaching Chinese as a foreign language at university level for 16 years. Academic Affiliation:  Vice  president of Chinese Language Association of California. Publications and presentations:  Publish and present more than 30 papers at professional magazines and conferences
heping.xu@monterey.army.mil

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

Hang Zhang
Institution: DLI-FLC
 Hang Zhang, presently works as an Assistant Professor at Defense Language Institute. Her research interests include pedagogical technology and curriculum development.
hang.zhang@monterey.army.mil