Anna Uhl Chamot is Professor of Secondary Education (ESL and Foreign Language
Education) in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development of the George
Washington University. She has directed a number of studies investigating the
language development of second and foreign language learners and has authored
books and articles on language learning strategies. She codesigned
and has written extensively about the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
(CALLA) and spent seven years implementing the CALLA model in the Arlington Public
Schools in Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. in ESL and applied linguistics from the
University of Texas at Austin.
Publications:
Chamot, A. U.(2001). Teaching learning strategies in immersion classrooms. The
ACIE Newsletter 5 (1): 1-4
Chamot, A.U. (2001). Literacy development in high school English language learners:
Bilingual and monolingual instruction. In J.E. Alatis & A-H Tan (Eds.), Georgetown
University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Language in our time (pp.
149-163). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Chamot, A. U. (2001). The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition.
In M.P. Breen (Ed.), Learner contributions to language learning: New directions
in research (pp. 25-43). London: Longman.
Chamot, A.U., Barnhardt, S., El-Dinary, P.B., & Robbins, J. (1999). The Learning Strategies Handbook. White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.
Jill Robbins is Adjunct Professor of Secondary Education in the Graduate School
of Education and Human Development of the George Washington University. She has
taught ESL in the US and Japan and has written listening and speaking instructional
materials that integrate language and learning strategies instruction.
Robbins, J. 1999. "East meets
West - Approaches to Learner Autonomy" In Proceedings of JALT 98, Japan
Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Omiya, Japan,
November 21-23, 1998.
Chamot, A. U., Barnhardt, S., P.B. El Dinary, and J. Robbins. 1999. The Learning Strategies Handbook. White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman
Robbins, J. 1996. Language Learning Strategies Instruction in Asia: Cooperative
Autonomy? In Proceedings of Autonomy 2000 - The Development of Learning Independence
in Language Learning. King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thonburi, in
association with the British Council, Bangkok, Thailand. November 21, 1996.
Available as an ERIC document: ED409728 p/d 1996
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White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.
. Singapore: Pearson.