Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching
2005, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 79-80
© Centre for Language Studies
National University of Singapore
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Olaf Bärenfänger (M.A., University of Heidelberg, Germany; Ph.D., University of
Bielefeld, Germany) is Deputy Director of the Language Center at the University
of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include e-learning, second language
acquisition research, quality management, research methodology, and language
testing. He has lectured in both North and South America, Europe and East Asia.
Dr. Bärenfänger is currently implementing a hybrid learning strategy at the
University of Leipzig.
Myung-Soon Hong is professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea. She holds a Ph.D. in German literature and teaches German as a Second/Foreign Language. Her current research interests include foreign language teaching and learning, and German Studies.
Jingquan Li, Teaching Assistant, is currently a doctoral student studying and
working in the English Department of the PLA University of Foreign Languages,
Luoyang, Henan Province, P. R. China. His main investigative interests are
second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, English language
teaching, and has published several papers in these fields.
Hyang-Ki Min is a lecturer at Goethe-Institut Seoul and teaches at various
universities in South Korea. She obtained her PhD in German as Foreign Language
in 2000 from the University of Kassel in Germany. She specializes in the
development of teaching materials. She is active in research in the Teaching and
Learning of German as Foreign Language.
Ryoko Suzuki is an Associate Professor at the Faculty and Graduate School of
Economics of Keio University, Japan. She received her B.A. and M.A. (English
Literature, Japan Women’s University; General Linguistics, University of
Southern California) and Ph.D. (Linguistics) from University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Her research interests include discourse analysis, historical pragmatics and
spoken Japanese.
Brian Tomlinson is the Founder and President of MATSDA (the Materials
Development Association) and the Head of the Post-Graduate, Research and
Consultancy Team in the School of languages at Leeds Metropolitan University. He
has worked in Africa and Asia (including Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia), has
given conference presentations in over sixty countries and has published
numerous articles and books (including “Discover English”, “Openings”,
“Materials Development in Language Teaching” and “Developing Materials for
Language Teaching”).
Miwako Yanagisawa is Associate Professor at Tokyo Christian University, Chiba,
Japan, where she has been on the faculty since 2000. She was awarded her Ph.D.
in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese) from the University of
Hawai’i at Manoa in December, 2004. The title of the dissertation is “Exploring
Social Identity: Analyzing Japanese-speaking Christians' Testimonies.” Her
current research interests include discourse analysis, language socialization,
and language pedagogy.
Alla Zareva is now an Assistant Professor of linguistics in the Faculty of
Humanities at Bourgas Free University (Bulgaria). She has also taught in the
Linguistics Program at The University of Georgia (U.S.) and the Applied
Linguistics Program at Northern Arizona University (U.S.). Her main interests
are in second language (L2) issues – in particular, the structure of the mental
lexicon of speakers of more than one language, qualitative and quantitative
features of their lexical organization, genre characteristics and information
packaging of L2 academic presentations, as well as testing at the higher levels
of proficiency.
