• Martin J. Smith (Chair)
• Supervisor of World Languages and ESL, Edison Township (New Jersey) Public Schools

Martin Smith's career spans 28 years in education: five years in speech communication at Temple University in Pennsylvania; 12 years as a teacher of Spanish and French; and 13 years of language supervision. For the past six years, Mr. Smith has taught courses in standards-based methodology, assessment, and technology use in the Masters of Arts for Teachers (MAT) program of the World Language Institute for Rutgers University. He is currently a member of the New Jersey Department of Education Standards Clarification Project and serves on the Executive Board of Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL)/National Council for Languages and International Studies (NCLIS). He is past-president of the Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey and was co-chair of the New Jersey Standards Revision Project. Smith served as a member of the Consensus Planning Committee for the Foreign Language National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and as a member of the writing team for the New Jersey World Languages Curriculum Framework. He has made numerous presentations at local, state, regional, and national conferences on the topics of curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, and technology in foreign languages.

• Martha G. Abbott
• Director of Education, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Marty Abbott is currently the Director of Education for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Prior to this, Marty served in the Fairfax County Public Schools as a language teacher, foreign language coordinator, and Director of High School Instruction. She has served on national committees to develop student standards, beginning teacher standards, and performance assessments in foreign languages. She was Chair of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in 1999 and President of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in 2003. Marty also was co-chair of the national public awareness campaign 2005: The Year of Languages. She holds her B.A. degree in Spanish with a minor in Latin from the University of Mary Washington and a Master's Degree in Spanish Linguistics from Georgetown University.

• Jianhua Bai
• Professor of Chinese, Department of Modern Languages and Literature Chair, Kenyon College

Jianhua Bai is currently a professor and chair at Kenyon College. He also serves as the director of the Chinese School of Middlebury College. His research interests include applied linguistics, proficiency-based material development, integration of multimedia and distance-learning technology into the Chinese language curriculum, and action research. He is a lifetime member of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), served on the Executive Board for two terms (1995-98 and 2001-04), chaired four subcommittees, and served as president from 2003-04. He is also an active member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Ohio Foreign Language Association (OFLA), the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), and the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC).

• Dianah Cheung
• Instructor West Sound Academy, Poulsbo, Washington

Dianah Cheung is a high school Humanities and French teacher at West Sound Academy, a college prepartory school in Washington state. She began teaching high school after twenty-five years of university teaching in French language and literature and the Humanities. After receiving her masters in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa and her doctorate in Eighteenth-Century French Studies from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Cheung taught as an Assistant Professor in both undergraduate and graduate courses in the French and Italian Studies program at the University of Washington. She sits on the commission for the redesign of the AP French literature exam as well as on the advisory commission of World Languages for the College Board.

• Dan E. Davidson
• President and Co-founder, The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS Professor of Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College

Dan Davidson received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Slavic languages and literatures from Harvard University. For the past 28 years, he has served as association head, faculty member, and academic administrator in the fields of Russian language and literature, Russian studies, and post-Soviet educational reform. Davidson is the author and/or editor of 26 books and more than 40 articles in the fields of Russian language, culture, and educational development—including a major 17-year longitudinal, empirically-based study of adult second language acquisition during study abroad. He has directed 19 Ph.D. dissertations and 25 masters' theses in the field of Russian and second-language acquisition.

• Dolores Durán-Cerda
• Faculty in Spanish Language and Latin American Literature, Department of World Languages, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona

Dolores Durán-Cerda holds a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) in Spanish, French and Secondary Education from the University of Iowa; a M.A. in Hispanic literature and a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Arizona. Currently, she is a full-time faculty member at Pima Community College-Downtown Campus where she teaches all levels of Spanish language, including web-hybrid formats, Spanish for Heritage Learners, Latin American literature and beginning French. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona-South where she teaches advanced courses in Mexican and Mexican-American literature, civilization and Spanish grammar and composition.

Currently, she serves as faculty co-chair of her institution's World Languages College Discipline Area Committee and is its Discipline Standards Specialist; serves on the PCC Academic Standards and Student Learning Outcomes Committees. She is also on the State Languages Articulation Task Force; an active member of the University of Arizona's sponsored Partnership Across Languages (PAL); President-Elect of the Arizona Language Association (AZLA); Southern Arizona Representative to the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP); and recently completed her three-year term on the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) Board.

She has received several awards for excellence in teaching and service from Pima Community College, the University of Arizona and most recently, the Dr. Dolores Brown Award from the Arizona Chapter of AATSP. In addition, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, has published and translated articles and has presented at national and international conferences on pedagogy and literature.

• Wiebke Strehl
• Associate Professor of German, Academic Director of the Ted Mimms Foreign Language Learning Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, German AP Chief Reader

Wiebke Strehl holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University. She has been active with the AP German Language exam for more than 10 years and is currently the Chief Reader. Wiebke is a frequent presenter on the teaching of German on all levels with special focus on holistic grading. At her institution she is also the Academic Director of the Language Learning Center which supports all fourteen languages currently taught. She is an active member of AATG as well as of the South Carolina Council on Languages. Besides her interest in teaching methodology, Wiebke continues her research in the 19th century German Realist Theodor Storm and the literature of German Realism.