SIL International is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study,develop and document languages,especially those that are lesser-known,in order to expand linguistic knowledge,promote literacy,translate the Christian Bible into local languages,and aid minority language development.
James Marshall Unger is emeritus professor of Japanese at the Ohio State University. He specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia,but he has also published on Japanese mathematics of the Edo period.
Joshua Fishman was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language,language planning,bilingual education,and language and ethnicity.
Isabelle Yoffe Liberman (1918–1990) was an American psychologist,born in Latvia,who was an expert on reading disabilities,including dyslexia. Isabelle Liberman received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her doctorate from Yale University. She was a professor at the University of Connecticut from 1966 through 1987 and a research associate at the Haskins Laboratories.
The Southern Tiwa language is a Tanoan language spoken at Sandia Pueblo and Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico and Ysleta del Sur in Texas.
In Language learning research,identity refers to the of personal orientation to time,space,and society,and the manner in which it develops together with,and because of speech development.
Academic discourse socialization is defined as one's growing process to realize the academic discourse and reach the expectation of the academic community. Academic discourse socialization is a form of language socialization through which newcomers or novices gain knowledge of the academic discourses by socializing and interacting with peers,experts,or more knowledgeable people in their community and social network. A dynamic and complex process,academic discourse socialization requires negotiation of both knowledge and one's identity. This kind of interaction is defined as a bidirectional process in which both novice learners and experts learn from one another.
Tom L. Humphries is an American academic,author,and lecturer on Deaf culture and deaf communication. Humphries is a professor at the University of California,San Diego (UCSD).
Susanna Samuels Epp is an author,mathematician,and professor. Her interests include discrete mathematics,mathematical logic,cognitive psychology,and mathematics education,and she has written numerous articles,publications,and textbooks. She is currently professor emerita at DePaul University,where she chaired the Department of Mathematical Sciences and was Vincent de Paul Professor in Mathematics.
David Richard Olson is a Canadian cognitive developmental psychologist who has studied the development of language,literacy,and cognition,particularly the mental lives of children,their understanding of language and mind and the psychology of teaching. Olson is University Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto,where he has taught since 1966.
Gillian Elizabeth Sankoff is a Canadian-American sociolinguist,and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Sankoff's notable former students include Miriam Meyerhoff.
Ruth Berman is an Israeli linguist,Professor Emerita,Tel Aviv University,where she held the chair in “Language across the Lifespan.”Berman's research deals with the morphology,syntax,and lexicon of Modern Hebrew,first language acquisition in cross-linguistic perspective,later language development,and development of narrative and text construction abilities from early childhood across adolescence and adulthood.
Cynthia "Cindy" Selfe is an author,editor,scholar,and teacher in the field of Writing Studies,with a speciality in the subfield of computers and composition. She is Humanities Distinguished Professor Emerita in the English Department at the Ohio State University where she taught from 2006 until her retirement in 2016. Prior to that,she taught at Michigan Technological University. Selfe was the first woman and the first scholar from an English department to win the EDUCOM Medal for innovative computer use in higher education.
Bertram C. "Chip" Bruce is an American educator,information scientist,and computer scientist,whose recent research has focused on democratic education. He is currently Professor Emeritus in Information Science at the University of Illinois and previously a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at National College of Ireland.
Rosalind Ivanić is a Yugoslav-born British linguist. She is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. Her research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on literacy,intertextuality,multimodal communication,adult literacy,educational linguistics,critical language awareness,punctuation,and second language writing. Along with Theo van Leeuwen and David Barton,she is considered one of the most prominent researchers on literacy.
Susan Gass is an American Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize-winner linguist. She is currently a professor emerita,retired from the Department of Linguistics,Languages,and Cultures at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on second language learning,corrective feedback,and task-based language learning. She graduated in 1961 from Kingswood School Cranbrook.
Gay Su Pinnell is an American educational theorist and a professor emerita at the School of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University. She is best known for her work with Irene Fountas on literacy and guided reading,a teaching framework that laid the groundwork for the Fountas and Pinnell reading levels.
Hrafnhildur Hanna Ragnarsdóttir is professor emerita in Developmental and Educational Science at the University of Iceland. Her research is concerned with long-term language development and its relation to cognition,social-emotional development and literacy. Her primary research focus has been on the development of vocabulary,grammar,and narratives in early childhood and the first school years and on later language development as it appears in oral vs/written text construction and in narratives vs/expository texts from middle grades through adolescence and into adulthood.
Mary J. Schleppegrell is an applied linguist and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan. Her research and praxis are based on the principles of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL),a theory derived from the work of social semiotic linguist Michael Halliday. Schleppegrell is known for the SFL-based literacy practices she has continuously helped to develop for multilingual and English language learners throughout her decades long career,which she began as an educational specialist before transitioning to the field of applied linguistics. As a result,her publications demonstrate a deep understanding of both the theories and practices related to teaching and learning.
Janet Emig was an American composition scholar. She is known for her groundbreaking 1971 study The Composing Process of Twelfth Graders,which contributed to the development of the process theory of composition. Her article,"Writing as a Mode of Learning" (1977) is also frequently cited and anthologized by the Writing Across the Curriculum movement.
