Tracy D. Terrell, late of the University of California, San Diego, received his Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.  His extensive research publications are in the area of Spanish dialectology, with particular focus on the sociolinguistics of Caribbean Spanish.  Professor Terrell’s publications on second language acquisition and on the Natural Approach are widely known in the United States.

Mary B. Rogers holds her undergraduate and graduate degrees in French from Vanderbilt University.  She teaches French and second language pedagogy at Friends University (Kansas) and works in teacher training.  Professor Rogers has been a certified teacher for the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview and has given numerous workshops and presentations on language teaching.  She is a coauthor of Bravo!, a Natural Approach program for teaching Spanish in secondary and middle schools.

Betsy J. Kerr is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  She received her Ph.D. in French linguistics from Indiana University and has published in the areas of French syntax and pragmatics, specializing  in the analysis of spoken French discourse.  At the University of Minnesota, Professor Kerr (formerly Barnes) teaches all levels of French language and basic courses in French linguistics.  She also served for many years as director of the Lower Division French Program.

Born and raised in Marseille, Guy Spielmann (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor of French at Georgetown University and Associate Director of the French School, Middlebury College.  He has done research, lectured and published extensively on second language acquisition and performing arts in Early Modern Europe.  He has also done pioneering work in the scholarly and pedagogical use of information technology.  Visit La Page de Guy at www.georgetown.edu/spielmann.