Gail August
Gail August is an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Cognition at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, where she teaches ESL and Bilingualism. She received her doctorate in linguistics
from the CUNY Graduate Center, and specializes in research pertaining to second language acquisition, literacy, and reading.

Lynn M. Burlbaw

Lynn M. Burlbaw is an associate professor of Social Studies and Education History in the Department of TLAC at Texas A&M University. His research interests include curriculum development, social studies education in K–16+ classrooms and the history of education in the United States, particularly Texas and Colorado, and other countries.

Andrew Sangpil Byon
Andrew Sangpil Byon is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he teaches Korean language and civilization courses. His primary research interests are in the area of Korean applied linguistics and foreign language pedagogy, particularly of Korean as a foreign language.

Haesook Han Chung
Haesook Han Chung, a native of South Korea, is an assistant professor in Korean language at Defense Foreign Language Institute in Monterey, California. She received her Ph. D in English Literature from Keimyung University in Korea and obtained her M.A in TESL from California State University, Los Angeles. She had taught English at college in Korea for 10 years. She taught English as a second language at World Mission University in Los Angeles.

Cathy Coulter
Cathy Coulter is an assistant professor in the College of Teacher Education and Leadership at Arizona State University. Her research interests include literacy and biliteracy development, policy and programs for English learners in public schools, and narrative research as a research methodology.

Zohreh R. Eslami
Zohreh R. Eslami is an assistant professor of ESL Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture in the College of Education at Texas A&M University in College Station. She has taught and educated
teachers of ESL/EFL for more than 10 years. Her current research interests include sociocultural aspects of ESL teaching and assessment, intercultural and developmental pragmatics, and ESL teacher education.

Alexis L. Filippini
Alexis L. Filippini is a doctoral candidate in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research addresses cognitive and linguistic factors of individual differences in reading development among diverse populations. She is currently developing a vocabulary intervention for English learners at risk for reading difficulties.

Shanan Fitts
Currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Shanan Fitts will be serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education at California State University, Fullerton. Her research interests include the study of classroom discourse, bilingual language acquisition, and culturally responsive teaching.

Leslie Garrison
Leslie Garrison is an associate professor of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus. She teaches a variety of classes and directs the Masters Programs on campus. Her research interests include teacher training, as well as mathematics and science education of English learners.

Michael M. Gerber
Michael M. Gerber is a professor and chair of the Department of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent research has focused on cognitive factors and individual differences in reading by English learners at risk for learning disabilities.

Anne-Marie Hall
Dr. Anne-Marie Hall is a faculty member in the Department of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Arizona. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in English Education, comparative and critical pedagogy, and research methods. She has been conducting ethnography on the teaching of writing in Arizona and Mexico for 15 years.

Maryellen Hamilton
Maryellen Hamilton is an associate professor of Psychology at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Stony Brook University. Her research interests include the conscious and unconscious processes associated with human memory and learning.

Yueming Jia
Dr. Yueming Jia received her Ph. D degree in Texas A&M University. Currently she is a researcher at the center for research on culture, development and education in New York University. Her areas of specialization are second language teaching and learning, language assessment, and multicultural education. Email: yj8@nyu.edu

Terese C. Jiménez
Dr. Terese C. Jiménez obtained her Ph.D. in Special Education and Masters in School Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. Previously she taught as a bilingual resource specialist in a K–5 setting. Her research interests include examining the application of problem-based pedagogy, and the early intervention and identification of children at risk for reading difficulties.

Jin Sook Lee
Jin Sook Lee is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests focus on bilingualism, heritage language maintenance among immigrant groups in the United States, and second language teaching and learning processes involving K–12 and adult English language learners.

Elizabeth Mahon
Elizabeth Mahon teaches English as a second language in an elementary school in Durham, North Carolina. Her research interests include high-stakes testing and literacy instruction with English language learners. She received
her Ph.D. in Social, Multicultural and Bilingual Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2004.

Teresa I. Márquez-López
Teresa I. Márquez-López is Director of the Two-Way Immersion Biliteracy Specialist Institute at the University of California, Riverside. She is currently serving on the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) Bilingual
Certification Advisory Work Group. Dr. Márquez-López’s research focus includes two-way immersion education, parental involvement, biliteracy, teacher induction, and enhanced student achievement through teacher and
administrator leadership. She is the author of California’s sole CTC-approved Reading Certificate with Biliteracy Emphasis Program.

Kate Menken
Kate Menken is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and TESOL at the City College of New York. She received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and dissertation awards from the National
Association for Bilingual Education and the American Educational Research Association. Her research interests include language policy, bilingual education, standardized testing, and national education policy.

Sylvia Moreira
Sylvia Moreira teaches fourth grade in a two-way bilingual program in Freeport, New York. She received her M.Ed in Elementary Education with a Bilingual Extension from Queens College of the City of New York. As a native
of Cuba and an English language leaner herself, her interests revolve around second language acquisition.

Eva Oxelson
Eva Oxelson is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Perspectives and Comparative Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before coming to UCSB, she worked as a public school bilingual education teacher. Her research interests include understanding how students and teachers interacting constitute educational situations.

Alejandra N. Rodríguez-Galindo
Alejandra Rodríguez-Galindo is a statewide coordinator for the Texas Reading First Initiative at the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Her primary interests are the language
and literacy development of English language learners, the relationship between language, culture, identity, and academic achievement and exploring ways to optimize the educational opportunities offered to culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Mary Lee Smith
Mary Lee Smith, Ph.D., is Regents Professor at Arizona State University, holding appointments in research methodology and policy studies. She earned her degrees from the University of Colorado. Among her many published works is Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools (Routledge/ Falmer).

Mariana Souto-Manning
Mariana Souto-Manning is an assistant professor in Child & Family Development at the University of Georgia. She has taught courses in early childhood, language and literacy, and cultural and linguistic diversity. Her research interests include language and socialization processes, early childhood, bilingualism, Latin@s and education, and critical perspectives on language and literacy.

Jo Worthy
Jo Worthy, a former elementary and middle school teacher, is professor of language and literacy studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests focus on home–school connections and on finding ways to enhance learning for students who are not well served by schools.

The Bilingual Research Journal is a joint project of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity, College of Education, Arizona State University.