List of Contributors, Vol. 7, No. 1

Netta Abugov is a Ph.D student at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. Her areas of interest include language acquisition, language variation and change and language in its cultural context. She is now working on her doctoral dissertation which focuses on the acquisition of Yiddish among Jewish ultra-Orthodox children.
email: abugovn@gmail.com

Melissa Bowles is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses primarily on instructed (classroom) language acquisition. Recent projects have examined the paired classroom interactions of heritage and second-language learners of Spanish and have compared the effectiveness of instruction for the two populations of learners.
email:  bowlesm@illinois.edu

Laura Callahan is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the City College, City University of New York (CUNY). Heritage language speakers have been her classmates and/or students in the California Community College, California State University, and University of California systems, and at Michigan State University, City College, and the CUNY Graduate Center.
email: Lcallahan@ccny.cuny.edu

Celeste Kinginger is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University where she is involved in the education of language learners, teachers, and researchers. Her research includes projects on second language pragmatics, cross-cultural life writing, site-independent language learning, and study abroad.
email: cxk37@psu.edu

Wesley Y. Leonard is a linguist and Visiting Faculty in the Anthropology Department at San Diego State University. His research interests include language reclamation, endangered language theory, language contact and change, sociolinguistics, and language policy. Dr. Leonard is a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Language Committee.
email: wleonard@mail.sdsu.edu

Ariana Mikulski is an Assistant Professor of Child Development and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa in 2006. Her research centers on language acquisition, maintenance, and loss in heritage speakers of Spanish.
email: Ariana.Mikulski@asu.edu

Silvina Montrul is Associate Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Acquisition of Spanish (Benjamins, 2004) and Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism. Re-examining the Age Factor (Benjamins, 2008). Her research focuses on linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to adult second language acquisition and bilingualism, in particular syntax, semantics and morphology. She also has expertise in language loss and retention in minority language-speaking bilinguals.
email: montrul@illinois.edu

Sunyoung Shin is a lecturer in the Department of Second Language Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He teaches MA-level courses on the theory and practice of language testing and has been involved in various language testing projects. His research interests include second/foreign language assessment, language testing for academic purposes, computer/web-based language testing, standard setting, and heritage language learning and teaching.
email: shin36@indiana.edu

Michal Tannenbaum is a senior lecturer at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. As a researcher, she is working on linguistic patterns of minority groups and on psychological aspects of immigration, inter-group relations, and emotional aspects of language loss and language maintenance.
email: mtannen@post.tau.ac.il

Wayne E. Wright is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he teaches courses in the areas of ESL teaching methods, literacy, assessment, technology, research, and policy.  He was a Khmer bilingual teacher in the Long Beach Unified School District in California for several years. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, and is also the Book Review Editor of the International Multilingual Research Journal. In 2009 he was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. 
email: wayne.wright@utsa.edu

Yun Xiao is Associate Professor and Chair of the Modern Languages Department at Bryant University. Her research interests are second language acquisition, heritage language learning, and Chinese teacher education. She has published a large number of journal articles and book chapters, and co-authored a 4-volume series of Chinese literature readings and two research monographs.
email: yxiao@bryant.edu