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Professor Gert C.W. Rijlaarsdam
President, International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education; Professor, Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, University of Amsterdam & Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
E-mail Rijlaars@ilo.uva.nl
Gert Rijlaarsdam (born 1952) is now head Curriculum Development at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning of the University of Amsterdam. Part of his job is managing curriculum development projects and in-service training. He supervises a research group at the GSTL (PhD-students and post-docs), which focus on the teaching and learning of literature, writing, reading and speaking skills, in L1 and foreign languages. He also holds a chair in Language Education at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands), established by the Dutch national association of teachers in Living Languages.
He is a member of international associations on language teaching and education (NCTE from about 1984, EARLI) and established with Ken Watson (Australia) an International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education (since 1995), which organises international conferences (1997,1999, 2001), publishes a book series (Amsterdam University Press, Falmer-Routledge Press) and starts an international journal (2001). He also served as co-ordinator of the Special Interest Group on Writing of EARLI (European Association of Research on Learning & Instruction (1994-1997); with Eric Esperet (University of Poitiers, France), he established a book series Studies in Writing (volumes 1-6 Amsterdam University Press, from volume published by Kluwer Academic Press. He strongly advocates international exchange and co-operation beyond the language borders. He manages international projects funded by the European Commission, among which an International MA-course on ICT and Language Teaching.
He has taught Dutch Language & Literature in secondary education from 1972-1988, while he studied Dutch Language & Literature (MA) and Educational Sciences (MA), and wrote his PhD-thesis on the effects of peer teaching in the written composition (1986). From 1980 he combined his teaching with a part time research job at the University of Amsterdam. In 1988 he became a co-manager at the GSTL, were he still is. He supervised several PhD-theses and is supervising seven PhD-theses now. He likes to combine research with contributions to the educational practice as contributing to text books for Dutch Language, participating in in-service programmes, editorship of magazines for teachers (¡¥Levende Talen¡¦ Eng: Living Languages), organising teachers conferences, workshops and special issues of magazines.
His research interest is not very focussed, although some themes seems prevalent: writing (programmes, processes, evaluation, attitudes), speaking skills (programmes, evaluation, attitudes), literature (teaching profiles, programmes, outcomes), learning by observation, learning through hypertext writing, writing in L1 and L2 (processes).
Chair and Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii at Manoa
E-mail: yingche@hawaii.edu
Y. C. Li is the Chair and Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has a long career as teacher and researcher in Chinese language and linguistics, with eight books and sixty articles published in China, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the U. S. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1970 and has taught in the University of Hawaii since 1969. A recipient of two Fulbright grants, he has obtained12 external major grants (totaling 1.5 million) and 6 minor grants on Chinese diachronic and synchronic syntax, comparative dialects, sociolinguistics, language teaching and testing, computer courseware (http://chinews.hawaii.edu) and multimedia editing system. He has served as a consultant for Singapore Ministry of Education, Taiwan Ministry of Education, and Hong Kong Education Department, and as an external examiner/reviewer on research, curriculum, and personnel for 30 universities in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the U. S. He is currently conducting a large-scale collaborative project on the Chinese dialects of Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with a grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation in Taiwan and completing a web-based Chinese comprehension courseware and language editing software funded by the U. S. federal government.
Chair Professor, Department of Curriculum and Educational Studies, The University of Hong Kong
Email: bmtsui@hkucc.hku.hk
Professor Amy B.M. Tsui is a Chair Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Educational Studies and Director of Teacher of English Language Education Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interest includes discourse analysis, classroom discourse, English language teaching and learning, language and society, language policy, and teacher development. Apart from publishing widely in these areas, she is currently co-editing with Professor James Tollefson of the University of Washington a volume on Medium of Instruction Policies in over ten countries in the world which will appear in 2003.
Deputy Head, Department of Curriculum and Educational Studies, The University of Hong Kong
Email: nrao@hku.hk
Dr. Nirmala Rao is Deputy Head, Department of Curriculum and Educational Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She is a Developmental and Educational Psychologist and her research focuses on Child Development in Asian Cultural contexts. She has published widely in the areas of developmental and educational psychology and early childhood education. In recent years, her research had focused on early childhood development and education and comparative studies of preschool and primary education in China and India. She is the former chairperson of the World Organisation of Early Childhood Education - Hong Kong (OMEP - HK) and is actively involved in local and international professional organisations concerned with child development.