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Hindi
Karan S Chauhan :: karanchauhan@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Indian culture
- Modern Hindi literature
- Travelogues
Pankaj Jain :: Pankaj-Jain@UIowa.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Indian culture
- Modern Hindi literature
- Travelogues
Sanjeev Jain :: skjain@irdaonline.org
Areas of expertise:
- Indian culture
- Modern Hindi literature
- Travelogues
- Meditation & life development
Rajesh Kumar :: drajeshk@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Grammar and usages
- Language teaching
- Indian culture
- Teaching pedagogy
Tahsin Siddiqi :: tsiddiqi@umich.edu
Nidhi Mehrotra :: nidhimehrotra@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Grammar
- Syntax
- Vocablary
- Culture
Jyotsna Vaid :: jxv@psyc.tamu.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Psycholinguistics
- Bilingualism
- Word recognition studies
Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi :: warsimj@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Computational linguistics
- Language teaching
- Communication studies
- Sociolinguistics
Hungarian
Jeff Harlig :: harligj@indiana.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Available teaching materials
- Pedagogy
- Structure
- Tense and aspect
- Sociolinguistics
Eric Hood :: grunt@skylands.net
Areas of expertise:
- Available teaching materials
Peter Vajk :: vajk@ix.netcom.com
Hurrian
Michael Walker :: mcwalker@hotmail.com
Icelandic
Elisabet Eir Cortes :: xdudda@hotmail.com
Irish
S. Breandán Ó hUallacháin :: sbohuallachain@hotmail.com
Thomas W. Ihde :: tihde@lehman.cuny.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Teaching materials
Nancy Stenson :: stenson@umn.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Structure of Irish Language
- Learning Tools
- Languages in Contact
Italian
Rita Grassato :: rita.grassato@tin.it
Marcantonio Magnarapa :: marcantonio@magnarapa.com
http://www.magnarapa.com
Kasmiri
Peter Hook :: pehook@umich.edu
Kazakh
William Dirks :: anazahqaan@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
- Learning Kazakh as a foreign language
- Culture
Khariboli
Tahsin Siddiqi :: tsiddiqi@umich.edu
Khmer
Vichea In :: vin@indiana.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Practical Khmer (words and phrases commonly used in speaking)
- Language acquisition (Khmer)
Prawet Jantharat :: jantharatp2@state.gov
Areas of expertise:
- Teaching materials
- Availability of programs
Chhany Sak-Humphry :: sak@hawaii.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Old Khmer inscriptions
- Pedagogy
- Material development
Khumi Chin
Justin Watkins :: justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk
Korean
:Ted Han :: Ted.Han@monterey.army.mil
Areas of expertise:
- Translation/ Interpretation
- Vocabulary
- Sociolinguistics
- Teaching materials
Kurdish
Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Lao
Frederick H. Jackson :: JacksonFH@state.gov
Lithuanian
Irena Gintilas :: lituanica@sbcglobal.net
Areas of expertise:
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Reading materials
- Historical development of Lithuanian
Lombard (western)
Marco Tamburelli :: marcolings@yahoo.co.uk
Areas of expertise:
- Syntax
- Phonology
- Historical development of Lombard
Maltese
Suzanne Piscopo :: piscopo@aol.com
Areas of expertise:
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- Pronunciation
- History of Maltese
- Available language learning materials
Marathi
Satish Kamatkar :: skamatka@yahoo.com
Sudhir Kamatkar :: marathimitra@marathimitra.com
Micronesian
Frederick H. Jackson :: JacksonFH@state.gov
Mongolian
Duane L. Blanchard ::dblanchard@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Modern Mongolian (Khalkha)
Todd Cornell :: culturev@earthling.net
Michael Walker :: mcwalker@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Classical and Cyrillic Mongolian
Mon-Khmer
See Wa
Myanmar
See Burmese
Norwegian
Louis Janus :: janus005@umn.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Norwegian morphology
- Pronunciation
- Language history
Stian Oksavik ::
stian@mail.utexas.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Idiom usage
Pashto
Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Abid Khan :: m.abid6@gmail.co
Areas of expertise:
Persian
Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Areas of expertise:
- Arabic loanwords in Persian Farsi
Michael Craig Hillmann :: mhill@mail.utexas.edu
Atousa Mirzaei :: Atousa.mirzaei@monterey.army.mil
Areas of expertise:
- Curriculum development
- Instructional materials
- Biliteracy
- The Interagency Language roundtable (ILR) scale
Atefeh Oliai ::aoliai@mail.sdsu.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Curriculum development
- Instruction materials development
- Testing and Assessment ( creation/ review)
- Pedagogy /
Teacher training
- Usage of literature in instructional materials of all levels
- ACTFL and ILR OPI certified
- Text typology
Poguli
Peter Hook :: pehook@umich.edu
Polish
Frank Y. Gladney :: gladney@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Ewa Szewc :: sapere.aude@vp.pl
Areas of expertise:
- vocabulary
- colloquial speech
- literature
- culture
Portuguese
Blair Bateman :: blair_bateman@byu.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Available teaching materials (especially textbooks)
- Pedagogy
- Teaching grammar
- Teaching culture (Brazil and Portugal)
Graça Castanho :: lingport@attglobal.net
Areas of expertise:
- Methodology
- Teaching
- Youth and children's literature
Maria Cristina Silveria :: silveira_maria@hotmail.com
Orlando R. Kelm :: orkelm@mail.utexas.edu
Roberto Krueger :: robert.kruger@uni.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Brazilian Portuguese teaching
- Brazilian and Lusophone studies (language, literature, culture)
Maria Eugenia Moratto :: moratto@csus.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Culture
- Linguistics
Joshua Rudder :: talktume@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Grammar
- Syntax
- Verb usage
- Pronunciation differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese
Fred Wen :: bigfred@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Brazilian Portuguese
Punjabi / Panjabi
Gurinder Singh Mann :: mann@religion.ucsb.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Medieval Punjabi Literature
- Teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language
Romanian
Michaela Marin :: mmarin@ns.lingv.ro
Russian
Frank Y. Gladney :: gladney@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Eric Hood :: grunt@skylands.net
Irina Kulikova :: tirwen@yandex.ru
Areas of expertise:
- Colloquial speech
- Slang
- Grammar
- Pronunciation
Nona Mozer :: NMOZER@aol.com
Areas of expertise:
- history and culture
Kae Raratyuk :: katico@bigmir.net
Areas of expertise:
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- Culture
- Dialects
- Teaching materials
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby :: jrouhie@pop.uky.edu
Sango
Helma Pasch helmapasch@tiscali.de
Areas of expertise:
- Syntax
- Vocabulary
- Teaching material
- Language history and use
Sanskrit
Pankaj Jain :: Pankaj-Jain@UIowa.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Grammar
- Indian culture
- Modern Hindi literature
- Travelogues
Serbian
Zoran Starcevic :: zoranstar@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
- Learning and teaching materials
- Pedagogy
- Translation
- Sociolinguistics
- Structure
Shina
Peter Hook :: pehook@umich.edu
Somali
Mohja :: aden0009@umn.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Syntax
- Translation
- Vocabulary
- phonetics
- beginners' teaching material
Swahili
Thomas Hinnebusch :: hinnebus@HUMnet.UCLA.EDU
Areas of expertise:
- Language teaching pedagogy
- Materials availability
- Comparative and historical linguistics
- Sociolinguistic situation of Swahili and other East African
languages
James Nyachae Michira:: mich0289@umn.edu
Mpasua Msonobari :: msonobari@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Translation of Swahili and English
- Technical terms
- Travel study programs and internships in East Africa
- Iintensive language drills
- Swahili history and future status
Swedish
Ben Larson :: belarson@york.edu
Taino
Pedro Guanikeyu Torres :: jttn@Taino-Tribe.org
Tagalog
Marina Hamoy:: cebuano_tagalog@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
- Language teaching
- Pronunciation
- OPI using ILR
- Available teaching materials
- Reading materials
- Translation
Taiwanese
Fred Wen :: bigfred@hotmail.com
Tamil
J. Arun Raja Selvan :: sitaprog@eth.net
Areas of expertise:
- Structure
- Syntax
- Grammar
- Semantics
- Phonetics
- Teaching spoken Tamil to non-native Tamil speakers
Pushpalatha Sundarsingh :: jsdsingh@omantel.net.om
Areas of expertise:
- Playway method of teaching
- Teaching spoken Tamil to non-native Tamil speakers
- Guidance to research methodology
Thai
Frederick H. Jackson :: JacksonFH@state.gov
Nanna Jonsson :: nthepchai@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Language teaching
- General linguistics
- Historical-comparative linguistics
- Literature/comparative literature
Tibeto-Burman
See Khumi Chin
Tongan
Richard "Lisiate" Thompson
:: lisiate@aol.com
The Language Center at Brigham Young University-Hawai'i
:: langctr@byuh.edu
http://lc.byuh.edu
Tsimshian
Margaret Seguin Anderson :: anderson@unbc.ca
Areas of expertise:
- Grammar
- Phonology
http://web.unbc.ca/~smalgyax/
Turkish
Yeliz Celiker celi0016@umn.edu
Areas of expertise:
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Daily conversation
Uighur
William Dirks :: anazahqaan@yahoo.com
Ukrainian
Natalia Pylypiuk :: natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca
Areas of expertise:
- Ukrainian literature: 11th-18th centuries and post-colonial
period
- Language teaching to native speakers of English, especially
at the introductory and intermediate levels
Kate Raratyuk :: katico@bigmir.net
Areas of expertise:
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- Culture
- Dialects
- Teaching materials
Urdu
Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi :: warsimj@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
- Computational linguistics
- Language teaching
- Communication studies
- Sociolinguistics
Uzbek
William Dirks :: anazahqaan@yahoo.com
Wa
Justin Watkins :: justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk
