Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University, USA. He is a recipient of the Chancellor's Citation Award for excellence in research. Publications include The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with William C.Ritchie, 2009), Advertising and Marketing in Rural India (2nd Edition, 2007), Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners (2nd Edition, 2007(, and Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (2000).
William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University, USA. His publications include an edited volume entitled Second Language Acquisition Research: Issues and Implications (1978). He has co-edited four handbooks with Tej K. Bhatia, including Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (1999).

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