Jianhua Bai (Ph. D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of Chinese and Chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures at Kenyon College. He also serves as Director of the Chinese School of Middlebury College. He has taught Chinese at all levels and also introduction to linguistics and Chinese language pedagogy courses. He has also served as Kenyon's KILM director, training, supervising and evaluating teaching assistants of seven world languages. His research interests include linguistics, foreign language education, proficiency-based material development, schema theory and reading instruction, integration of multimedia and distance-learning technology into the Chinese language curriculum and action research. He is currently chairing the AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam Development Committee for ETS and the College Board. He is a lifetime member of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), has served on the Executive Board of CLTA for 2 terms (1995-1998, 2001-2004) and was President of the CLTA (2003-04). He is also an active member of AAS (Association of Asian Studies), AAUSC (American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs), ACTFL, OFLA (Ohio Foreign Language Association), and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.

Robert J. Blake (Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of Spanish at UC Davis and founding Director of the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching. He has published widely in the fields of Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, and computer-assisted language learning. He was the academic consultant for Nuevos Destinos (Annenberg/CPB Project, WGBH, and McGraw-Hill Companies) and co-author for Tesoros (BeM, McGraw-Hill Companies), a five-disc multimedia CD-ROM program for introductory Spanish. He has co-authored with María Victoria González Pagani both Al corriente: Curso intermedio de español, 4th Edition (McGraw-Hill Companies) and "Spanish Without Walls," a distance-learning course offered through the UC Davis Extension and as a hybrid course through the main campus. In May of 2004, Dr. Blake was inducted into the North American Academy for the Spanish Language, making him a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy as well.

Dorothy Chun (Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics, UC Berkeley) is Professor of German and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. Her research areas include several aspects of Second Language Acquisition: L2 phonology and intonation, L2 reading and vocabulary acquisition, and technologies for the acquisition of language and culture. She has conducted studies on cognitive process in learning with multimedia and has authored CD-ROMs and websites for language and culture acquisition. She is a Co-PI on an Andrew Mellon Foundation grant to study the effects of instructional technology in the college classroom. Her publications include Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research to Practice, 2002, John Benjamins and articles in Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, System, CALL, Journal of Educational Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, and the online journal, Language Learning and Technology, which she edits.

Dan Douglas is a Professor in the TESL/Applied Linguistics Program at Iowa State University, where he teaches classes in language testing and English for specific purposes. He has a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University and an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Hawai'i, and has taught and conducted research in Botswana, Hawai'i, Scotland, England, Sudan, and Japan. He is a past President of the International Language Testing Association and currently Secretary of the Midwest Association of Language Testers. He is the author of Assessing Languages for Specific Purposes (Cambridge, 2000), and co-editor of the journal Language Testing. His book with Carol Chapelle, Assessing Language through Computer Technology, was published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press. His major research interests include language testing, language for specific purposes, and second language acquisition.

Robert Fischer is Professor of French/Applied Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Texas State University. He has been serving as the Executive Director of the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and Editor of the CALICO Journal since 1997. He has published and given numerous presentations in computer-assisted language learning and has received several grants to support the development and dissemination of multimedia authoring tools. His current research interests lie in the relationship between student usage of computer-based materials and learning.

Professor Hult is Director of the Broad International Business Center (IBC), which houses globalEDGE, MSU-CIBER, CIBERweb, Academy of International Business (AIB), and the Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan (GB Club). He is Professor of Marketing, International Business, and Strategic Management, with specialty areas in global strategy and supply chain management. He is a faculty in the Department of Marketing and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Management. IBC is the developer of globalEDGE; the world's leading online source for international business information. Hult is the founding Editor of the globalEDGE Business Review, gBR.

Mustafa Mughazy is an Assistant Professor of Arabic and Linguistics at Western Michigan University, where he directs the Arabic Program and the Linguistics Group. Dr. Mughazy earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University, and a B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Alexandria University, Egypt. He is the author of Dardasha: Introduction to Egyptian Arabic and a series of articles and book chapters. His research interests include the interface of semantics and pragmatics and the issues tense and aspect in Arabic. His passion is developing print and online teaching materials.