Nicole Mills is coordinator of the Beginning French Language Program at Harvard University. Her research focuses on topics associated with self-efficacy in foreign language learning and teaching, social networking, project-based learning, and curriculum design. She has various publications in the Modern Language Journal, the Foreign Language Annals, Language Learning, the CALICO journal, the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and in several edited volumes. She is the co-editor, with John Norris, of the upcoming AAUSC 2014 volume entitled Innovation and Accountability in Foreign Language Program Evaluation. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Studies and French and a Masters’ degree in French literature from Emory University.

Stacey Katz Bourns is the director of Language Programs in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in French and second language acquisition. Her research has focused on theoretical and practical concerns regarding the teaching of grammar, and she has published articles pertaining to TA training and the field of applied linguistics. Among her books are Teaching French Grammar in Context: Theory and Practice (coauthored with Carl Blyth); Conceptions of L2 Grammar: Theoretical Approaches and Their Application in the L2 Classroom (coedited with Johanna Watzinger-Tharp); and her recent textbook, Contextualized French Grammar. She is the Review Editor of the Linguistics Section of the French Review and the Series Editor of the AAUSC annual volume, Issues in Language Program Direction.

Virginia Maurer is an Associate Director at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.