James F. Lee is Professor of Spanish, Director of Language Instruction, and Director of the Programs in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. His research interests lie in the areas of second language reading comprehension, input processing, and exploring the relationship between the two. His research papers have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and publications. His previous publications include Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, Second Edition (2003, McGraw-Hill) and several co-edited volumes, including Multiple Perspectives on Form and Meaning, the 1999 volume of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators. Dr. Lee is also the author of Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms (2000, McGraw-Hill). He has also co-authored several textbooks, including ¿Sabías que... ? Beginning Spanish (2000, McGraw-HIll) and Ideas: Lecturas, estrategias, actividades y composiciones (1994, McGraw-HIll). He and Bill VanPatten are series editors for The McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series.

Dolly Jesusita Young is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, where she is Director of the first- and second-year Spanish programs. She received her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. She has published widely in the areas of language anxiety and foreign language reading. She co-edited the first language anxiety volume Language Anxiety: From Theory and Research to Classroom Implications,with Dr. Elaine K. Horwitz, and co-wrote a supplementary Spanish reader, Esquemas, with the late Darlene F. Wolf. She also published a volume in The McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series entitled Affect in Foreign Language and Second Language Learning: A Practical Guide to Creating a Low-Anxiety Classroom Atmosphere (1999).

Darlene F. Wolf was, at the time of her death, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Alabama, where she served as the Director of first-year Spanish and was responsible for the training of graduate teaching assistants. She taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish linguistics and applied linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Applied Linguistics at the University of Illinois in 1991, specializing in second-language reading research. She published several articles in this area. She co-authored, along with Dolly Jesusita Young, Esquemas, a supplementary Spanish reader, as well as other textbooks on developing reading strategies in various languages.

Paul Michael Chandler is Associate Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of first-year Spanish at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He teaches Spanish and Portuguese languages, teaching methodology, historical Spanish language, and Hispanic literature; he is also responsible for teacher training. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Indiana University in Bloomington, where he served as course coordinator. Before joining the faculty at Hawai’i, he was the Applied Linguist/Methodologist at San Jose State University in California, where he taught courses in language, phonetics, linguistics, and teaching methodology. He has edited the proceedings of the Hawai’i Association of Language Teachers conference and is co-author of a conversation/composition text, Con destino a la comunicación: Oral and Written Expression in Spanish (1998, McGraw-Hill).