Jacub Bielak is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies at Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and Senior Lecturer at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. His research interests include Cognitive Linguistics, form-focused instruction and individual variation in language learning.
Larissa Buss is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at Concordia University, Montreal. She holds a BA degree in TEFL and Portuguese, and an MA degree in Applied Linguistics from her home country, Brazil. Her research interests include teacher education, pronunciation instruction, and L2 phonetics and phonology.
Peter-Arno Coppen is a Professor of Linguistics at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. His interests include formal linguistics, semantics, computational linguistics, and grammar education.
Dacian Dorin Dolean is a researcher in the Department of Educational Sciences at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, and a part-time Professor at East Georgia State College, USA. He explores the extent to which cognitive mechanisms and affective factors can be optimized to improve foreign language learning/teaching experiences.
Johan Graus is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen, Netherlands, where he is also the co-ordinator for the M.Ed. programme Teacher Education in English. His research interests include teacher cognition and grammar instruction.
Peter Yongqi Gu is an Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His academic interests include strategic language learning, language testing and assessment, and vocabulary acquisition.
Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak is a teacher and a teacher trainer at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz as well as the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. Her research interests include teacher education, SLA, form-focused instruction, language learning strategies, learner autonomy, willingness to communicate, and motivation.
Mirosław Pawlak is Professor of English at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, and the Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland. His main areas of interest are SLA theory, form-focused instruction, pronunciation teaching, classroom discourse, learner autonomy, learning strategies, motivation, and willingness to communicate. He is editor of the journals Studies in Second language Learning and Teaching and Konin Language Studies as well as the book series Second Language Learning and Teaching, published by Springer.
Meral Seker is a Lecturer at School of Foreign Languages, Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey. She holds a PhD in English Language and Teaching. Her research interests include social constructivist approaches to teaching and learning of foreign languages, writing instruction, and learner autonomy.
