Handbook for Language Program Administrators (Alta Professional)

The best-selling Handbook for Language Program Administrators has been completely revised and updated. It remains an invaluable resource for all practicing and prospective language program administrators (LPAs) by emphasizing the many roles that they must assume as leaders, decision makers, promoters, and managers while also exploring the crucial knowledge and skills that make a successful LPA. Each chapter presents an accurate picture of the challenges faced by LPAs in different contexts, and offers administrators problem-solving suggestions as well as practical, tried and tested strategies and guidelines. This Second Edition includes chapters written by new and continuing authors while many of the topics covered in the first edition have been broadened in the scope of their discussions and updated to reflect contemporary administrative issues.

Fredricka L. Stoller is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, where she teaches in the MA-TESL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics programs. Her professional areas of interest include L2 reading, disciplinary writing, language program administration, project-based learning, content-based instruction, and language teaching methodology and curriculum design.

Mary Ann Christison, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and the urban Institute for Teacher education at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA where she teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels for M.A. and Ph.D. students. She is the author of over 85 published and refereed articles and 20 professional books.