Jeff Zwiers teaches in the Stanford Teaching Education Program and works for Stanford's Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. He received his Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco and has taught English, Spanish, science, and history in high school, middle school, and elementary school. His areas of specialty are academic language and literacy. Jeff is also a consultant on the Guatemala Education Reform in the Classroom Project that develops effective systems of bilingual education and teacher training. He has published articles and books on literacy, cognition, and academic language, including Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings (Stenhous) and Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities (International Reading Association), and Developing Academic Thinking Skills: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities (International Reading Association).
Diane Larsen-Freeman Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, Research Scientist at the English Language Institute, and Faculty Associate at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also a Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Larsen-Freeman has been a conference speaker in over 60 countries around the world and has published books and over 100 articles in her areas of interest: second language acquisition, language teacher education, English linguistics, and language teaching methodology. Her book with Lynne Cameron, Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press), was awarded the prestigious 2009 Kenneth W. Mildenberger award by the Modern Language Association. Her latest book is the third edition of Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, co-authored with Marti Anderson and published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Also in 2011, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was presented the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award by the American Association for Applied Linguistics.
Jeff Zwiers teaches in the Stanford Teaching Education Program and works for Stanford's Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. He received his Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco and has taught English, Spanish, science, and history in high school, middle school, and elementary school. His areas of specialty are academic language and literacy. Jeff is also a consultant on the Guatemala Education Reform in the Classroom Project that develops effective systems of bilingual education and teacher training. He has published articles and books on literacy, cognition, and academic language, including Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings (Stenhous) and Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities (International Reading Association), and Developing Academic Thinking Skills: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities (International Reading Association).
Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, Research Scientist at the English Language Institute, and Faculty Associate at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also a Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Larsen-Freeman has been a conference speaker in over 60 countries around the world and has published books and over 100 articles in her areas of interest: second language acquisition, language teacher education, English linguistics, and language teaching methodology. Her book with Lynne Cameron, Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press), was awarded the prestigious 2009 Kenneth W. Mildenberger award by the Modern Language Association. Her latest book is the third edition of Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, co-authored with Marti Anderson and published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Also in 2011, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was presented the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award by the American Association for Applied Linguistics.