Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching
2004, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 100-101
© Centre for Language Studies
National University of Singapore
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Desmond Allison is Professor and Director, School of Linguistics and Applied
Language Studies, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada. He has also worked in
Singapore, Hong Kong, Botswana, China, Algeria, Brunei and Nigeria. His main
investigative interests in Applied Linguistics are in English for Academic
Purposes (EAP), including genre studies, academic writing in university
curricula, comprehension studies, and language programme evaluation.
Anna Uhl Chamot is Professor of Secondary Education (ESL and Foreign Language
Education) in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development of the
George Washington University. She has directed a number of studies investigating
the language development of second and foreign language learners and has
authored books and articles on language learning strategies. She holds a Ph.D.
in ESL and applied linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Qianrui Chen is Associate Professor at the Beijing Language and Culture
University since 1995. He has published a book and a number of articles on
Language Acquisition and Chinese Grammar and is also the editor of the “Shijie
Hanyu Jiaoxue” (Teaching Chinese in the World) Journal published at this
university.
Dr. Stephen F. Culhane is an Associate Professor of English Education at
Kagoshima University in Kagoshima, Japan. The founding President of PacCALL, his
current research concerns integration of immersion second language learning
principles into CALL contexts, CALL for content-based second language learning,
acculturation and culture in second language acquisition.
Mr. Christophe Galian has degrees in the Teaching of French as a Foreign
Language and Applied French Linguistics, and Astrophysics. He has taught French
in Vietnam from 2001 to 2004. During this period, he was also educational
advisor for the French-speaking universities network of AUF (Agence
Universitaire de la Francophonie). He is, at present, the French Specialist for
the Ministry of Education Language Centre in Singapore.
Thiện Nam Nguyễn has taught Vietnamese as second language to foreigners since
1980 at National University of Hanoi, University of Phnom Penh (1982-1985, and
1987-1989) and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2001-2003). He obtained a
PhD in Linguistics and Literature in 2000 from National University of Hanoi.
Besides Vietnamese, he is also involved in organizing extracurricular
activities, compiling materials for teaching Vietnamese, and teaching
methodology to teachers of Vietnamese for non-native speakers.
Toshio Okazaki, Professor of Japanese Language Education and Linguistics in the
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Master’s Program in
Area Studies at the University of Tsukuba; Ph.D. in Linguistics. He has taught
at Ohio University (U.S.A.) and Hiroshima University, and has also worked as a
visiting scholar at Illinois University (U.S.A.).
Ms Sylvie Thibonnet graduated from University of Besançon as well as from
University of Grenoble. Her degrees are in the Teaching of French as a Foreign
Language and Applied French Linguistics. She is into her sixth semester of
teaching French for beginners at the National University of Singapore. In
collaboration with the NUS Centre for Instructional Technology, she has
developed an on-line e-learning website for French beginners: Cyberdupont (http://courseware.nus.edu.sg/cyberdupont).
Erwin Tschirner (M.A. University of Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D. University of
California, Berkeley) is Professor of German as a Foreign Language and Applied
Linguistics at the Herder Institute at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and
Adjunct Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. He is an
internationally recognized authority on foreign language learning, methodology,
testing, and materials design, including multimedia materials, and has taught in
universities in the United States, Cuba, and Germany. He has lectured and acted
as a consultant widely in both North and South America, Europe, South East Asia,
Australia, and the Middle East.
Dr Daming Xu is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Sociolinguistics
Laboratory in the Department of Chinese, Nanjing University, China. He obtained
his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and has held
teaching and research positions in different universities in countries such as
Canada, the US and China. He was elected Vice-President of the Association of
Chinese Sociolinguistics in 2003 and is currently organizing the Third
International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics.
Noviyanti Yulius obtained her B.Ed. from the Atma Jaya Catholic University in 1997 and her M.A. in English Studies from the National University of Singapore in 2001. She has taught Indonesian to students in NUS since 2002 and was recruited as a full-time instructor for the programme in July 2003.