Hey Tou Chiu completed her bachelor’s degree at University College London (UCL). Her main research interests are in examining students’ learning and emotional well-being in both typical and special needs populations, and the neural mechanisms that underlie their emotional development.
Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow received her DPhil from University of Oxford, and is an associate professor at City University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest lies in the field of developmental psychology, with an emphasis on language and literacy acquisition.
Kristin J. Davin is Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on second language development and teacher preparation from a sociocultural perspective.
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism. He is former president of the International Association of Multilingualism and the European Second Language Association. He is Editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He won research awards from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013) and the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (2016).
Livia Dewaele is completing her undergraduate studies in French and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. She has co-authored papers on individual differences in Foreign Language Enjoyment, Language Anxiety and Willingness to Communicate. She won the best paper award with Jean-Marc Dewaele in the 2017 issue of the Journal of the European Second Language Association.
Richard Donato is professor in the Department of Instruction and Learning, University of Pittsburgh. His research earned him the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Modern Language Journal Paul Pimsleur award (1997 and 2006), the Northeast Conference Freeman Award (2004), and the French Institute of Washington Award (2003).
Jongmin Kim is a master’s alumnus at the department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria. He received a bachelor’s degree in Education and English Education from Hanyang University in South Korea. He is interested in individual differences and focus on form in second language learning.
Hossein Nassaji is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, Canada. His recent books are Corrective Feedback in Second Language Teaching and Learning (2017, Routledge, with Eva Kartchava) and Interactional Feedback Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning (2015, Bloomsbury). He is currently the co-editor of Language Teaching Research.
Ehsan Rassaei is an associate professor of applied linguistics. He has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses for more than 10 years and published a number of papers in international journals . His areas of interest include corrective feedback in language classrooms, dynamic assessment and vocabulary teaching.
Kazuya Saito is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His research interests include how second language learners develop various dimensions of their speech in naturalistic settings; and how instruction can help optimize such learning processes in classroom contexts.
John Witney completed his PhD in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London under the supervision of Jean-Marc Dewaele. His research interests include the grammatical cross-linguistic influences of L3 instructed language learners, their language-learning strategies and metalinguistic awareness.
Simpson W. L. Wong received his DPhil from University of Oxford, and is an associate professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. His main research interests include second language learning, specific learning difficulties and multimedia learning.
