*Gordon, Ronni: * - Ronni L. Gordon holds a PhD in Spanish language and Spanish and Latin American history and literature from Rutgers University and has taught at Harvard and Boston University. An education consultant, she has consulted on states' K-12 academic standards for world languages and h...

*Gordon, Ronni: * - Ronni L. Gordon holds a PhD in Spanish language and Spanish and Latin American history and literature from Rutgers University and has taught at Harvard and Boston University. An education consultant, she has consulted on states' K-12 academic standards for world languages and has read in foreign languages for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

David M. Stillman holds a PhD in Spanish linguistics from the University of Illinois and has taught at Harvard, Boston University, and Cornell. He is on the faculty at The College of New Jersey, where he teaches French, Spanish, and Italian.

The author team has written more than forty foreign language textbooks, multimedia courses, and reference books.