Jim Cummins is
currently a professor in the modern language center and department
of curriculum, teaching and learning of the University of Toronto.
His research focuses primarily on the challenges educators face in
adjusting to classrooms where cultural and linguistic diversity is
the norm. He has published several books related to language learning
and cultural diversity, including, in 1995, the highly acclaimed Brave
New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning
Networks (with Dennis Sayers). Dr. Cummins received his Ph.D.
from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Anna Uhl Chamot
is Associate Professor at George Washington University, where she
coordinates the program for ESL teacher education. Previously she
was Associate Director of the Georgetown University/Center for Applied
Linguistics National Foreign Language Resource Center. She also
managed two title VII Special Alternative Instructional Programs
in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Chamot co-authored two books with J.
Michael O'Malley, Learning Strategies in second language acquisition
and the CALLA Handbook: How to implement the cognitive academic
language learning approach. She has also published numerous
professional and instructional books and articles on ESL theory
and practice, including The Learning strategies Handbook.
She holds a Ph.D. in ESL and applied linguistics from the University
of Texas at Austin.
Carolyn Kessler
is Professor of English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics
in the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University
of Texas at San Antonio. She has given presentations at numerous
major conferences and has published widely in journals and texts
dealing with second language learning and teaching, bilingualism,
and biliteracy. Dr. Kessler holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University.
J. Michael O'Malley was
Supervisor of Assessment and Evaluation in Prince William County
Public Schools, Virginia. He was a co-developer with Anna Uhl Chamot
of the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) and
was noted for his research on learning strategies in second language
acquisition and for his work on assessment of language minority
students. Dr. O'Malley held a Ph.D. in psychology from George Peabody
College.
J. Michael O'Malley was a true leader in the field of learning strategies,
assessment, and ESL instruction. He helped shape the future of ESL
and contributed greatly to the way ESL instruction is given and
monitored. He touched the lives of all who knew him and worked with
him. Mike O'Malley died in 1998.
Lily Wong Fillmore is
on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education at the University
of California, Berkeley. A linguist by training and an educator
in practice, she has conducted a number of large scale studies of
second language learners in school settings, and she serves on numerous
advisory boards and committees for organizations such as California
Tomorrow. Dr. Wong Fillmore holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford
University.
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