Professor Jill Bourne is a member of the Centre for Language in Education at the University of Southampton, England. She is Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (1997-2000) and has been Vice President of the International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA) from 1996-1999. Having taught and researched for some years at the Open University, UK, she brings in depth experience of using new technologies in Distance Education to the fields of minority language education and widening educational access for all.

Dr. Dumitri Chitoran, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Bucharest. Former Dean (1969-1977) and Vice-rector (1977-1983) of the University of Bucharest.
Director of the Romanian-English Contrastive Analysis Project (1969-1975). Published extensively (books, monographs and articles) on English, general and applied linguistics.
Joined UNESCO in 1983 as deputy director of the European Centre for Higher Education (1983-1989), then as head and director of the Higher Education Section (1989-1994).
Currently, Special Adviser to the Director General of UNESCO and his representative in the Council of the University for Peace.
Member of UNESCO's Task Force for the International Year for a Culture of Peace.

Carl James studied German, French, Russian and TEFL, at Nottingham, Gφttingen, Berlin, Oxford, Moscow, and Manchester before lecturing in Applied Linguistics at Bangor (Wales), where he served as Head of Linguistics and is Senior Postgraduate Tutor. He directed several London TEFL summer schools for the British Council and has also undertaken lecture tours to some twenty countries, and held appointments as Research Fellow (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and as Visiting Professor in the universities of Lisbon (1980-81), Rio de Janeiro (1988-89), and Brunei Darussalam (1994-95). He has published over 100 articles and the books Contrastive Analysis, Language Awareness in the Classroom and Errors in Language Learning and Use, served on several editorial boards and consultative committees. Main interests are: Contrastive and Error Analysis, Second Language Writing, Translation, Spelling, and Language Awareness: but essentially a Jack of All those Trades than impinge on language teaching.

Reader in Contemporary English Linguistics
Member of the Depts of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Nijmegen and The Centre for Language Studies
Former Vice-President and Founder Member of EUROSLA (The European Second Language Association). Currently Editor of the EUROSLA magazine, The Clarion.
Published in Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, and contributed chapters to many books.

Recent publications include:
1997: Kasper, G. & E. Kellerman (Eds). Communication Strategies: Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. London: Addison Wesley Longman.

My research interests are second language acquisition, with particular emphasis on transfer, semantics, communication strategies and figurative language.
Non-academic interests include cooking and eating, Gershwin, classical music, cinema, and digital photography.

Philosophe, linguiste et germaniste, Jean-Renι Ladmiral enseigne la philosophie allemande, ainsi que la traductologie ΰ l'Universitι de Paris-X-Nanterre, oω il dirige aussi le C.E.R.T. (Centre d'Ιtudes et de Recherches en Traduction). Il enseigne aussi la traduction et la traductologie ΰ l'I.S.I.T. (Institut Supιrieur d'Interprιtation et de Traduction) de Paris.
Jean-Renι Ladmiral est aussi traducteur. Il a surtout traduit les philosophes allemands: Jόrgen Habermas et l'Ιcole de Francfort, mais aussi Kant, Nietzsche, etc. Sa premiθre traduction ιtait de l'anglais: Crisis of Psychoanalysis de Erich Fromm.

Outre ses travaux sur la philosophie allemande, et en didactique des langues –ses recherches ont portι principalement sur la traduction. Sa thθse d'Habilitation ΰ diriger des recherches s'intitulait: "La traductologie: de la linguistique ΰ la philosophie". Il a publiι de nombreux articles et dirigιs plusieurs Nomιros de revues (Languages nos 28 $ 116, Langue franηaise no 51, Revue d'Esthιtique No 12, etc.) sur la traduction, ainsi qu'un livre (rιcemment rιιditι): Traduire: thιorθmes pour la traduction, Paris, Gallimard, 1994 (coll. Tel, no 246).
Dans le prolongement de ces travaux sur la traduction, il aussi publiι, en collaboration avec Edmond Marc Lipiansky, un ouvrage intitulι La Communication interculturelle, Paris, Armand Colin, 1989, rιιd. 1991 & 1995 (Bibliothθque europιenne des sciences de l'ιducation.

Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (Professor), MA (Munich), DPhil (Sussex)
Chair of Cultural Studies, Department of Modern languages, University of Bradford (since 1995). (University of Sussex 1977-89, University of Manchester 1989-95)

Key publications
Selected Books
(1994), (with K. Richardson), (eds.), Text, Discourse and Context.
Representation of Poverty in Britain. Longman: London & New York. (256 pp).
Joint winner of the 1995 BAAL book prize.

Other:
Publications Coordinator and Executive Board Member of AILA (International Association for Applied Linguistics).
Co-founder and co-chair of AILA Scientific Commission Language and the Media.
Member of ESF programme: Changing Media, Changing Europe
Vice-president PRism (Pole de recherches internationales sur les medias)
Visiting professor at Goeteborg, Florence, Kassel, Berlin-Babelsberg

Current externally funded research projects:
Coordinator of Fifth Framework consortium, EU DG12, into discursive construction of identities in European border communities 2000-2003. (SERC-1999-00023)
Principal partner of ESRC grant into discursive construction of identities on the former German-German and German-Polish border (ESRCR000 22 2899) with D. Galasinski (1999-2000)
Coordinator of research project The Televisual construction of the 20^th century at the eve of the millennium (supported by AHRB and 10 national cultural instutions 1999-2000).