About the Authors

Anna Uhl Chamot is professor of secondary education and faculty adviser for ESL in George Washington University’s Department of Teacher Preparation. She has been a researcher and teacher trainer in content-based second-language learning and language-learning strategies. She codesigned and has written extensively about the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA), and spent seven years implementing the CALLA model in the Arlington Public Schools in Virginia.

Pamela Hartmann is a teacher and writer in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She has taught ESL and EFL in Korea, Greece, and California since 1973. In addition, she has authored several books in the fields of TESOL and cross-cultural communication.

Jann Huizenga has been an educator and consultant in the field of TESOL since 1978. She has worked as a teacher, a teacher trainer, and a writer and developer of texts and materials, both in the United States and in Mongolia, Albania, Kuwait, and Italy.