Suresh Canagarajah is the Kirby Professor in Language Learning and Director of the Migration Studies Project at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a joint appointment in the departments of English and Applied Linguistics. He teaches courses on World Englishes, Second Language Writing, Postcolonial Studies, and Theories of Rhetoric and Composition. He has taught before in the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and the City University of New York (Baruch College and the Graduate Center). His book Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (OUP, 1999) won Modern Language Association’s Mina Shaughnessy Award for the best research publication on the teaching of language and literacy. His subsequent publication Geopolitics of Academic Writing (UPittsburgh Press 2002) won the Gary Olson Award for the best book in social and rhetorical theory. His edited collection Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice (Erlbaum, 2005) examines linguistic and literacy constructs in the context of globalization. His study of World Englishes in Composition won the 2007 Braddock Award for the best article in the College Composition and Communication journal. Suresh edits TESOL Quarterly. He is currently analyzing interview transcripts and survey data from South Asian immigrants in Canada, USA, and UK to consider questions of identity, community, and heritage languages in diaspora communities.

Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.  A graduate of Harvard University (B.A. cum laude, 1972), New York University (M.A., 1973), and University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D., 1985), Professor Hornberger investigates multilingual language and education policy and practice, using an interdisciplinary approach combining methods and perspectives from anthropology, linguistics, sociolinguistics, and policy studies.  Three-time Fulbright Senior Specialist, Hornberger has also been recognized for her Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring at the University of Pennsylvania (2008) and for Distinguished Scholarship and Service by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2008).  Hornberger teaches, lectures, and advises on multilingualism and education throughout the world and she has authored or edited over two dozen books and more than 100 articles and chapters, including most recently Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?  Policy and Practice on Four Continents (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), and the Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer 2008).