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Akan (Twi)

Erika Eichholzer :: eeichholzer@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Syntax
Literature
Teaching material

Albanian

Alexander Murzaku amurzaku@cse.edu

Areas of expertise:

Natural language processing
Corpus linguistics
Lexicology
Lexicography
Morphology
Language teaching and language acquisition
Sociolinguistics

Arabic

Karima Benremouga :: kbenremouga@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Modern Standard Arabic
Syntax
Vocabulary
Teaching material
Algerian, Egyptian and Gulf dialects

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com

Areas of expertise:

Regional dialects of Arabic (esp. dialects in the Gulf region)
Arabization / adaptation of foreign terms (esp. technology, industry)

ASL (American Sign Language)

Claude E. Mauk :: cemauk@pitt.edu

Areas of expertise:

Phonetics
Phonology
Sociolinguistics

Assyrian

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com

Azeri

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com

Baluch

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com

Basque

Brad Williams :: bwill17@gmail.com

Belarusian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Bosnian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Danko Sipka :: Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology

Lexicography

Morphology

Natural language processing

Language teaching and language acquisition

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Braj Bhasha

Ali Taqi :: ali@taqi.org

Teaching Materials

History

Literature

Breton

Steve Hewitt :: s.hewitt@unesco.org

Bulgarian

Tsvetelina Yordanova :: yordanovats@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Language history and use

Comparative and historical linguistics

Vocabulary; colloquial speech & slang

Grammar

History, literature and culture

Folklore

Translation

Burmese

John Okell:: jo@soas.ac.uk

Justin Watkins :: justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk

Catalan

Antoni Brosa :: abrosa@pie.xtec.es

Areas of expertise:
Syntax

Morphology

Phonetics

Vocabulary

Llorenç Comajoan :: lcomajoa@middlebury.edu
Areas of expertise:
Second Language Acquisition

Catalan and Spanish Linguistics
http://cr.middlebury.edu/catalan/

Cebuano

Marina Hamoy:: cebuano_tagalog@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Language teaching/pedagogy

Culture orientation

Verb morphology

Pronunciation

OPI using the ILR scale

Insular dialects of Cebuano

Available teaching materials

Reading materials

Curriculum/materials development

Program design/development

Translation

Chamorro

Katherine Aguon :: kbaguon@ite.net

Areas of expertise:
Available teaching materials

Chinese-Mandarin

Mitchell B. Brewer :: mitch269@aol.com

Tae-Jin Kim Buehrer :: tjbhrr@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Vocabulary

Metalinguistic development

Second language acquisition

Tony Jiang :: cccglobal@hotmail.com
Areas of expertise:
Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Chinese literature and history

Li-Jen Kuo :: lijenkuo.niu@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Vocabulary

Metalinguistic development

Y.C. Li :: yli@sec.lang.hawaii.edu

Zhenyi Li :: zheli@itu.cc.jyu.fi

Other dialects:
Shanghainese Suzhou (Suchow)

Hangzhou (Hangchow)

Scott McGinnis :: scott.mcginnis@us.army.mil
Areas of expertise:
Second language acquisition

Language pedagogy

Language testing

Program design

Tiberiu Weisz :: kaifengstones@yahoo.com
Fred Wen :: bigfred@hotmail.com
Weiping Wu :: wwpclc@cuhk.edu.hk
Other dialects:
Southern Fukiense (Minnan, Chaouzhou)

Cantonese

Bu Yuan :: yuan_bu@hotmail.com

Croatian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Danko Sipka :: Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology

Lexicography

Morphology

Natural language processing

Language teaching and language acquisition

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Zoran Starcevic :: zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Learning and teaching materials

Pedagogy

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Danish

Michael Walker :: mcwalker@hotmail.com
Dari

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Druze

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Dutch

Antonius Broos :: tonbroos@umich.edu
Grada Schadee :: gradars@globalxs.nl

Estonian

Anne Tamm :: anne_tamm@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Semantics, especially tense-aspect-mood

Morphology especially case marking, partitive

Lexicon

Teaching material

Computational applications (lexical databases, lexicography, speech synthesis)

Language contact, change, variation

http://www.dipfilmod.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-184.html

Ewondo
(Beti-Bulu-Fang Group, Cameroon)

Erika Eichholzer :: eeichholzer@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Vocabulary

Syntax

Literature

Teaching material

Fante

Kwesi Addae :: ADFNA@aol.com
Areas of expertise:
Vocabulary

Grammar

Syntax

Teaching material

Finnish

Tiina Haapakoski :: tiina.haapakoski@utoronto.ca

Areas of expertise:
Morphology

Syntax

Dialects

Etymology

Vocabulary

Available teaching material

Daniel Karvonen :: karvo001@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
Teaching Finnish as a second language

Phonology

Phonetics

Morphology

Etymology

Pronunciation

Johanna Laakso :: johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at

Areas of expertise:
Structure, history and origins of Finnish

Historical-comparative analysis of Finno-Ugric lannguages

Börje Vähämäki :: borje.vahamaki@utoronto.ca

Areas of expertise:
Syntax

Morphology

Pronunciation

History of Finnish

Linguistic approaches to Finnish

Galician

Kathleen March :: Kathleen_March@umit.maine.edu

Georgian

Mr. Kim Braithwaite :: kbtrans@cox.net

Areas of expertise:
Georgian language, history, and culture

Nona Mozer :: NMOZER@aol.com

Areas of expertise:
history and culture

Ghomala (Grassfields, West - Cameroon)

J. Seraphin Kamdem :: jseraphink@yahoo.com
Greek

Theano Yerasimou :: yera0001@umn.edu

Gujarati

Pankaj Jain :: pankajaindia@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Indian culture

Modern Hindi literature

Travelogues

Hausa

Roxana Ma Newman :: rmnewman@indiana.edu
Hawaiian

Puakea Nogelmeier :: puakea@hawaii.edu
Hebrew

Rutie Adler :: radler@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise:
All levels, styles, purposes

Gila Ansell Brauner - gilaa@jafi.org

Dina Ripsman Eylon :: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca

Sima Gottesfeld :: simagot@yahoo.com

Aviva Kadosh :: akadosh@bjela.org

Areas of expertise:
Community teaching

Early childhood teaching

Adina Newberg :: adina@rrc.edu

Or Rogovin :: rogovin@u.washington.edu

Areas of expertise:
Linguistics

Literature

Humanistic studies

Tirzah Rom :: trom@rrc.edu

Janis Smith :: jsmith@rrc.edu

Michael Walker :: mcwalker@hotmail.com

Tiberiu Weisz :: kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Naama Zahavi-Ely :: nxzaha@wm.edu

Hebrew (Ancient / Biblical)

Hélène Dallaire :: helene.dallaire@denverseminary.edu

Paul Overland :: poverlan@ashland.edu

Areas of expertise:
Hebrew and SLA Pedagogy

Hindi

Pankaj Jain :: pankajaindia@gmail.com

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

Rachel Lileet :: lileet@hindistudies.com

Area of expertise:
Pedagogy

http://www.hindistudies.com

Anil Shukla padmaja.shukla@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Indian Literature (both Hindi and English)

Travel

Hindi Films and music

Nidhi Mehrotra :: nidhimehrotra@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Grammar

Syntax

Vocablary

Culture

Arun Prakash :: aprakash1960@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Program establishment K-12

Learning material

Ali Taqi :: ali@taqi.org

Teaching Materials

Pedaogy

History

Literature

Lexicography

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 :: jeff.harlig@sa.ucsb.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
Tiberiu Weisz :: kaifengstones@yahoo.com
Hurrian

Michael Walker :: mcwalker@hotmail.com

Icelandic

Elisabet Eir Cortes :: xdudda@hotmail.com
Jona E. Hammer :: hammer@duq.edu
Irish

S. Breandán Ó hUallacháin :: sbohuallachain@hotmail.com
Thomas W. Ihde :: thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu
Area of expertise:
Teaching materials

Nancy Stenson :: stenson@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
Structure of Irish Language

Learning Tools

Languages in Contact

Italian

Khadar Ali :: kali@hct.ac.ae
Area of expertise:
OPI interviewer

Michael Farina :: michael.farina@yale.edu

Areas of expertise:
Technology in Teaching

Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)

Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL)

Communicative Homework

Available Teaching Materials

High School and College Study Abroad Programs

Majoring in Italian

Italian Culture

Rita Grassato :: rtgrsst@hotmail.it

Brittany Corbucci :: brittany.corbucci@gmail.com

Marcantonio Magnarapa :: marcantonio@magnarapa.com

http://www.magnarapa.com

Maria Simona Morosin :: geastrak@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
teaching of Italian and English LS to young children and to adolescents

bilingualism

second language acquisition

neurobiology of language (cognitive processes involved)

neurolinguistics

Japanese

Joyce Jacobo :: joyjacobo@gmail.com

Tiberiu Weisz :: kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Kasmiri

Peter Hook :: pehook@umich.edu
Kazakh

William Dirks :: anazahqaan@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
Learning Kazakh as a foreign language

Culture

Khmer

Vichea In :: vin@indiana.edu

Areas of expertise:
Practical Khmer (words and phrases commonly used in speaking)

Language acquisition (Khmer)

Prawet Jantharat :: jantharatp2@monterey.army

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

Tae-Jin Kim Buehrer :: tjbhrr@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Vocabulary

Metalinguistic development

Second language acquisition

Kurdish

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com

Lao

Frederick H. Jackson :: fjackson@nflc.org

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

Macedonian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Liljana Mitkovska :: liljana55@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Grammar (i.e., Morpho-Syntax)

Vocabulary;

Colloquial speech and slang

Language history and culture

Translation

Marathi

Satish Kamatkar :: skamatka@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Syntax
http://www.marathimitra.com

Sudhir Kamatkar :: marathimitra@marathimitra.com

Areas of expertise:
Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Syntax
http://www.marathimitra.com/

Micronesian

Frederick H. Jackson :: fjackson@nflc.org

Mongolian

Duane L. Blanchard ::dblanchard@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Modern Mongolian (Khalkha)

Michael Walker :: mcwalker@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Classical and Cyrillic Mongolian

Mon-Khmer

See Wa

Montenegrin

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Danko Sipka :: Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology

Lexicography

Morphology

Natural language processing

Language teaching and language acquisition

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Myanmar

See Burmese

Norwegian

Liv Kari Herstad :: livkari@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
Pedagogy (Second Language teaching)

Daily life

Nynorsk

Vocabulary

Syntax

Louis Janus :: janus005@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
Norwegian morphology

Pronunciation

Language history

http://www.NorwegianLanguage.info

Stian Oksavik :: stian@mail.utexas.edu

Areas of expertise:
Vocabulary

Grammar

Idiom usage

Old Church Slavonic

Steven P Hill :: s-hill4@illinois.edu

Pashto

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Abid Khan :: m.abid6@gmail.co

Areas of expertise:

Computational Morphology

Persian

Stephen H. Franke :: Mutarjm@aol.com
Areas of expertise:
Arabic loanwords in Persian / Farsi

Michael Craig Hillmann :: mhill@mail.utexas.edu
Pardis Minuchehr :: minupari@gmail.com
Areas of expertise:
Language pedogogy

Language testing and assessment

Culture and literature

Teaching language through film

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

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Andy Golebiowski :: andywbuffalo@yahoo.com
Iwona Sadowska :: ibs3@georgetown.edu
Areas of expertise:
Gender issues in Polish

Diminutives

Etymology

Danko Sipka :: Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching / acquisition

Morphology

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)

Maria Cristina Silveria :: silveira_maria@hotmail.com
Orlando R. Kelm :: orkelm@mail.utexas.edu
Areas of expertise:
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers

Business Portuguese
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/kelm.htm

Maria Eugenia Moratto :: moratto@csus.edu

Areas of expertise:
Brazilian Portuguese

Culture

Linguistics

Ana Sousa :: acsousa@csustan.edu

Areas of expertise:
Portuguese as a global language

Teaching/learning Portuguese as a Second or Foreign Language

Teaching/learning Portuguese with open source web technology

http://www.portulan-online.net/

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

Tiberiu Weisz :: kaifengstones@yahoo.com
Russian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

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

Areas of expertise:
Semantics

Syntax

Folklore

Pedagogy and teaching materials
http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie

Sanskrit

Pankaj Jain :: pankajaindia@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
Grammar

Indian culture

Modern Hindi literature

Travelogues

Serbian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Danko Sipka :: Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology

Lexicography

Morphology

Natural language processing

Language teaching and language acquisition

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Zoran Starcevic :: zoranstar@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
Learning and teaching materials

Pedagogy

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Shina

Peter Hook :: pehook@umich.edu

Slovenian

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

Somali

Khadar Ali :: kali@hct.ac.ae

Area of expertise:
OIP Interviewer

Mohja :: mohaaden@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

Valorie Arrowsmith :: varrow2@ecenet.com
Barbara Cartford :: barbaracartford@hotmail.com
Ben Larson :: belarson@york.edu

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
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 :: fjackson@nflc.org
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
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

E Wayles Browne :: ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials

Translation

Sociolinguistics

Structure

Syntax

Vocabulary

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
Fran Pritchett :: fp7@columbia.edu
Website:
http://www.columbia.edu/~fp7

Ali Taqi :: ali@taqi.org

Areas of expertise:

Grammar

Teaching Materials

Pedaogy

History

Literature

Lexicography

Culture

Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi :: warsimj@gmail.com Areas of expertise:

Computational linguistics

Language teaching

Communication studies

Sociolinguistics

Uzbek

William Dirks :: anazahqaan@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:
Learning Uzbek as a foreign language

Dialects, spoken language

Culture

On-line Uzbek dictionary
http://www.geocities.com/zangari_kema

Wa

Justin Watkins :: justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk

Wolof

Omar Ka :: ka@umbc.edu

Areas of expertise:
Phonology

Sociolinguistics (including Language Planning and Language Policy)

Learning materials development

Yiddish

David Goldberg :: DGoldberg@mla.org
Areas of expertise:
syntax

vocabulary

learning and teaching materials

translation,

dialectology.

Vera Szabo :: verele@umich.edu