Bita Aghaei Aghdam, Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
Christoph Anderl is a Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Ghent University.
Linda Badan is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Padova.
Frank Boers is Professor in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Western University, Ontario. His early research was about lexical semantics, but his interests shifted after he became a language teacher and later a teacher trainer. Since the 2000s he has published mostly on matters of second language education.
Jon Clenton is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University, Japan. He researches vocabulary assessment, productive vocabulary development, fluency, word association, and lexical processing. He has co-authored books including First Language Influences on Multilingual Lexicons and Vocabulary and the Four Skills.
Mark de Boer is an Assistant Professor at Akita International University, Japan. His research is in CLIL, assessment, and teacher training. He is the co-editor of the volume Assessment and learning in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms: Approaches and conceptualisations with Dmitri Leontjev.
Marjan Ebadijalal is a PhD graduate of Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran in applied linguistics (TESOL). Her areas of research interest include L2 teacher education and teaching language skills. Her recent works appeared in Computer Assisted Language Learning, The Language Learning Journal, and journal of Language, Identity, and Education.
Masaki Eguchi, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at Equmenopolis Inc. and Guest Research Assistant Processor at the Perceptual Computing Laboratory, Waseda University, Japan. His recent research centers on validating conversational AI agents for oral proficiency assessment, combining computational, psychometric, and conversational analytic methods.
Farahman Farrokhi, The University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
Zhuxia Fu is a Lecturer at the College of International Studies, Shenzhen University. Her research interests are sociocultural theory and technology-enhanced language learning.
Mingyue Michelle Gu (PhD) is Professor of Sociolinguistics, and Dean of Graduate School at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her major research areas include: language and identity, multilingualism and mobility, ethnic minority studies, youths’ development in social media, and family language policy. She is a prolific scholar, publishing widely in the above fields. She has a strong record in securing external competitive research grants as PI. She is an elected member of Hong Kong Academy of Humanities.
Nurdan Gürbüz works as a Full Professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University (Türkiye). Her areas of interest include spoken discourse, assessment of speaking skills, intercultural communication, and language teacher education.
Douglas Hamano-Bunce is a Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His research interests include written corrective feedback, computer-mediated communication, spoken interaction, and task-based learning and teaching.
Huei-Tse Hou is a Distinguished Professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research interest focuses on multi-dimensional scaffolding and game-based learning.
Icy Lee is a Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include second language writing, and teacher professional development. Her publications have appeared in more than 20 academic journals, such as Assessing Writing, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, and TESOL Quarterly.
Liang-Hsuan Lee is a Teacher of National Keelung Commercial and Industrial Vocational High School. Her research interest focuses on game-based EFL learning.
Dmitri Leontjev is a Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He received his PhD in applied linguistics. He has published on such topics as teaching, learning, and assessment from Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory perspective, as well as on praxis with language teachers, language assessment literacy, and dynamic assessment.
Cheng-Tai Li is a Doctor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research interest mainly focuses on game-based learning and gamification.
Linghong Li is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Educational Studies at Ghent University, specializing in technology-enhanced teaching approaches.
Chunhong Liu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research interests include EFL writing, and critical English for Academic Purposes. He has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Second Language Writing, Assessing Writing, and English for Specific Purposes.
Yongcan Liu is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Languages Education at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on multilingualism and language education in migration contexts.
Lianjiang Jiang is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. His work has appeared in multiple peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, & Computer Assisted Language Learning.
Jookyoung Jung is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include task-based language teaching, L2 reading and writing, technology-mediated L2 learning, and the role of individual differences in second language acquisition.
Shahab Moradkhani is an Associate Professor of TESOL at Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. His primary areas of research interest are L2 teacher education and teaching language skills. His latest works have appeared in journals like System, Teaching and Teacher Education, ELT Journal, TESOL Journal, and Computer Assisted Language Learning.
Wanyu Amy Ou is Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include AI in language education, English-medium instruction (EMI), intercultural communication, multilingualism, and language-in-education policy. She is Book Review Editor of the Journal of English-Medium Instruction (John Benjamins).
Mahnaz Saeidi, Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
Mehmet Sak works as a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Language Education at TED University (Türkiye). His research mainly deals with the psychology of language learners, teachers, and teacher educators. His publications have appeared in various international journals such as TESOL Quarterly, System, Language Teaching, ReCALL, and Foreign Language Annals.
Matthew Y. Schaefer is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor in the Center for Language Education and Research (CLER) at Sophia University, Japan. He teaches EAP and CLIL courses, with a content focus on visual storytelling. His research interests include higher education course design, narrative theory, and program evaluation.
Matt Stainer is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, Australia. He completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Dundee (Scotland). His research uses eye-tracking and visual attention tasks to examine how people utilize visual information from their environment to make decisions.
Anne Teravainen-Goff is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, exploring the relationship between motivation and engagement in language learning. This study forms a part of their PhD thesis, which seeks to better understand engagement from motivated learners’ perspective.
Zhenan Tong is a Lecturer at the National Elite Institute of Engineering, Chongqing University, China. His research interests include education policy, intercultural education and competences. He is currently involved with the development of “New Engineering Education” courses in Chinese higher education.
Minh Hoang Tran holds a PhD in Applied English Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Cambridge CELTA certificate. His research interests include vocabulary teaching and learning, Task-Based Language Teaching, and instructed second language acquisition.
Paul Tremblay, PhD, is a Faculty Member in Psychology at Western University, Ontario. He teaches advanced graduate statistics courses. He obtained his doctorate degree in psychology at Western University (1998) and conducted research with his supervisor, Robert C. Gardner, on Gardner’s socio-educational model of second language learning.
Takumi Uchihara is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests include the learning and teaching of spoken vocabulary, incidental vocabulary acquisition, productive vocabulary assessment, and the interface between vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency.
Martin Valcke is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Studies at Ghent University.
Min Wang is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Zhejiang University. Her research focuses on L2 construction learning, structural priming, and interactive alignment. She led two national research projects on structural priming in L2 learning and authored a book on syntactic priming. Her work appears in top linguistics journals.
Shulin Yu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. His research interests include second language writing and classroom feedback and assessment. His publications have appeared in Language Teaching, TESOL Quarterly, System, Teaching in Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, and Assessing Writing.
Xi Yu is a PhD candidate at Western University, Ontario. Her research focuses on polysemy and multi-word item learning, particularly examining how meaning variations affect vocabulary acquisition. Her work has been published in Language Teaching Research, Language Learning, and RELC Journal.
Xiaoyan Zhang is currently an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an University of Finance and Economics. Her research interests include L2 writing development, L2 collocation and vocabulary learning, and L2 construction acquisition. Her work appears in Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching Research, System, and IRAL.
Yiran Zhang received her PhD degree at Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. His research interests focus on second language writing.
Yao Zheng is an Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chongqing University, China. Her research interests include second language writing and language education. Her publications have appeared in Language Teaching Research, Journal of Second Language Writing, Assessing Writing, System, and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.
Anna Zólyomi, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and Director of Studies of the Language Pedagogy and English Applied Linguistics PhD Programme. She is a Section Editor at GiLE Journal of Skills Development, she has participated in various research projects, presented in conferences and published in leading journals.
