NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Charles Bazerman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education in

the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He is interested in the social dynamics of writing, rhetorical
theory, and the rhetoric of knowledge production and use. His most recent
book, The Languages of Edison's Light, won the American Association of
Publisher's award for the best scholarly book of 1999 in the History of
Science and Technology. Previous books include Constructing Experience,
Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in
Science, The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines, and Involved:
Writing For College, Writing for Your Self. Address for correspondence:
Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
93106, USA. <bazerman@education.ucsb.edu>
Peter Ecke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. He is a faculty
member in the Department of German Studies and the Ph.D. Program in
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. His research interests include the
bilingual lexicon, lexical retrieval failure, vocabulary acquisition, and
language attrition in bi- and multilingual speakers. Address for correspondence:
Department of German Studies, PO Box 210105, The University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. <eckep@u.arizona.edu>
Rod Ellis is currently Professor of Language Teaching and Learning in the
Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of
Auckland, New Zealand. He has also taught in Zambia, the UK, Japan, and
the USA. He is Chair of the New Zealand Association of Applied Linguistics.
He has published widely in the ®eld of second language acquisition and in
language teaching. Two of his best known books are Understanding Second
Language Acquisition (1986) and The Study of Second Language Acquisition (1994).
His latest book, Task-Based Teaching and Learning, was published in 2003 by
Oxford University Press. Address for correspondence: Department of Applied
Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019,
Auckland, New Zealand. <r.ellis@auckland.ac.nz>
Andrea Golato is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in German and Applied
Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and has the equivalent of
a Master's degree in translation and interpretation from the Johannes-
Gutenberg-University Mainz at Germersheim, Germany. Her research
interests lie in the area of conversation analysis, particularly in the sequential
organization of German talk-in-interaction and in grammar and interaction.
She teaches courses in these areas, as well as in second language acquisition
and Business German. Address for correspondence: Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures, 3072 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
61801, USA. <golato@uiuc.edu>
Gregory J. Kelly is Associate Professor of Science Education in the Gevirtz
Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Prior to attending graduate school he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo
where he taught physics and chemistry and served as a teacher educator.
He won the Early Career Research Award from the National Association for
Research in Science Teaching in 1999. His research applies theory and
methods from science studies to the analysis of student learning and has
examined how learning opportunities are framed through social interactions
in science classrooms, students' use of evidence through argumentation
analysis, the use of disciplinary knowledge in spoken and written discourse
in science classrooms. His work is published in such journals as Science
Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Research in Science Education,
and the International Journal of Science Education. Address for correspondence:
Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
93106, USA.
Sinfree Makoni is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University in the
Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Program, and the Department of
African and African±American Studies. His main research interests are
language and ageing (gerontolinguistics) in bilingual communities and the
socio-historical constructions of African languages in urbanizing Africa. His
recent publications include: Ageing in Africa: The Sociolinguistic and Anthro-
pological Approaches (2002); Black Linguistics: The Social, Political and Linguistic
Problems of Languages in Africa and the Americas (2002). Address for correspond-
ence: Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, College of the Liberal Arts,
The Pennsylvania State University, 305 Sparks Building, University Park, PA
16802-5202, USA. <Sbmakoni@aol.com>
Alyson McGee is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University in the
United Arab Emirates. She has extensive experience in the teaching of English
and English in Britain, Sweden, Greece, Spain, and Turkey. Her publications
include articles, dictionaries and textbooks. Her research interests include
research methodologies, second language acquisition, teaching writing, and
teacher education linguistics. Address for correspondence: Zayed University, PO
Box 4783, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. <Alyson.McGee@zu.ac.ae>
Karina Vidal is lecturer in English for Academic and Speci®c Purposes at the
Universidad AutoÂnoma de Madrid. Her main research interests are listening
comprehension testing, and the attrition of FL vocabulary knowledge. She is
currently collaborating on a funded project on genre and ESL writing. She has
also been involved in curriculum development and taught EFL on both infant
and adult education programmes. Address for correspondence: Department of
English Philology, Universidad AutoÂnoma de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria de
Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. <karina.vidal@uam.es>
Fangyuan Yuan is currently teaching at the Department of Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her publications include
articles, translations between Chinese and English, textbooks, and diction-
aries. Her textbook Advanced Business Chinese is going to be published by Yale
University Press in 2003. Address for correspondence: 704 Williams Hall,
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 36th and Spruce Streets,
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. <fangyuan@sas.upenn.edu.>