Malia LeMond currently teaches Advanced Foreign Language Methods in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Spanish language at St. Andrew’s School. She has taught all levels of Spanish language at the university level for over 16 years, and served as Coordinator of Lower Division Language Courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College, a Master’s degree in Romance Linguistics from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Ibero Romance Philology and Linguistics with a specialization in Spanish Second Language Acquisition from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she taught at the University of Michigan, Iowa State University, the University of Cincinnati, and Austin Community College. She also is actively involved in teacher training and study abroad through her work as a Director of the Spanish Teaching Institute.

Cynthia Fraser Barlow received a Bachelor’s degree in French from Trinity University and a Master’s degree in Hispanic Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she teaches Spanish at Berkeley City College, in Berkeley, California. She has taught Spanish at the college level for 18 years, serving as a faculty member at Santa Barbara City College, Allan Hancock College, the University of Texas at Austin, St. Edward’s University, and Concordia Lutheran University. For six years, she taught in the Spanish Teaching Institute’s summer immersion program in Guanajuato, Mexico, and at the institute’s teacher training workshops throughout the state of Texas. During a two-year residence in Mexico City, she taught English at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. She is the co-author of two McGraw-Hill custom publications–Metas comunicativas para maestros (1999) and Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998).

Sharon Foerster retired from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, where she had been the Coordinator of Lower Division Courses in the Department of Spanish in Portuguese, directing the first- and second-year Spanish language program and training graduate assistant instructors. She continues to teach Spanish in the Summer Language School at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Texas in 1981. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she was Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain, for four years. She continues her involvement in study abroad through her work as Director of the Spanish Teaching Institute and as Academic Advisor for Academic Programs International. She is the co-author of the following McGraw-Hill titles: Metas: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (2008); Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency, Third Edition (2007); Lecturas Literarias: Moving Toward Linguistic and Cultural Fluency Through Literature (2007); Supplementary Materials to Accompany Puntos de Partida (2009); Metas comunicativas para maestros (1999); and Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998).