LI-RONG LILLY CHENG is professor of communicative disorders, and
assistant dean of Student Affairs and International Development, College of
Health and Human Services, San Diego State University. She is also director of
the International Institute for Human Resources Development in Health and
Human Services and a fellow of the American Speech-language Hearing
Association. She has researched bilingual language acquisition, language and
culture, cross-cultural communication, and speech-language pathology among
the bilingual population.

MARILYN MEI-YING CHI is professor of language/literacy education and
coordinator of the Chinese Bilingual Teaching Credential Program, Division of
Teacher Education, San Jose State University. She has published six books and
numerous articles on early literacy, Chinese-American children's literature, and
the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of Chinese-American students. Her
current research projects focus on English-Chinese bilingual and biliteracy
development and learning processes and how limited English proficient Asian
children acquire English as a second language in multiple contexts.

HAROLD CHU is professor and director of the Center for Bilingual-
Multicultural-ESL Education, Graduate School of Education, George Mason
University. He is the author of six books and numerous chapters and articles on
bilingual-multicultural-ESL education; language arts; assessment; comparative
analyses between Korean and English, Japanese and English; Korean and
American, and Japanese and American cultures.

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