Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies and the Centre de recherches en education franco-ontarienne of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto./e Her most recent publications include a book, Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography, and articles in such journals as the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, and Discurso y Sociedad.
Marilyn Martin-Jones is Professor of Bilingualism and Education at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She taught for 15 years in the Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University. Her most recent publication is a book (coedited with Kathryn Jones) entitled: Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Writing Different Worlds (2000). She has also published articles in a number of journals such as Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Education, and The International Journal of the Sociology of Language.