Rita Kupetz Author & Editor

The Editor: Rita Kupetz is Professor of Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Hanover, where she was Head of the Language Centre while the classroom research discussed in this book was being carried out. She spent the Winter Semester 2001 at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, where she continued with the study on culture-specific beliefs regarding teaching and learning.