Yawen Han is an associate professor and the executive director of Research Center on Language Policy for Asia-Pacific Countries in the School of Foreign Languages at Southeast University. Much of his current work focuses on educational policy and practice for minority students and international students studying in universities of China.

Takahiro Iwanaka, Ph.D., is a professor at Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Japan. He has been interested in investigating the roles of output, noticing, and explicit syntagmatic knowledge in English language learning. He is also interested in how rewriting based on feedback contributes to the development of learners’ writing proficiency in English.

Jeongyeon Kim, Ph.D, is professor at School of Liberal Arts at UNIST, where she teaches courses on foreign language pragmatics. As an applied linguist, she conducts research on language and social interaction and language policy. Her recent research articles have been published in journals English for Specific Purposes and System.

JOKO NURKAMTO is a Professor of TESOL in the Department of English Language Education, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia. He is currently the Head of the English Education Department of the Graduate Program at that University. His most recent publication is “Teachers’ beliefs and practices in teaching reading at Islamic secondary schools in Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10(3), 667-676. https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/31753

She received her Master of TESOL from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and her current research interest lies in ELT management and organization development and teachers’ CPD.

Dr Peter De Costa is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University (MSU). He is part of the core faculty within the Second Language Studies Ph.D. Program and the Master of Arts in TESOL Program. His primary area of research is the role of identity and ideology in second language acquisition (SLA). He researches other issues in educational linguistics, including English as a lingua franca, critical classroom discourse analysis, and culturally relevant pedagogy for immigrant ESL learners.

Roy works in the British Council’s English for Education Systems team. His preoccupations for much of his career have been a) what really makes networks for ELT professionals work for their members, and b) the relationship between trainer and trainee, teacher and student, and knower and novice.

Dr Fan Fang is Associate Professor at Shantou University, China. His research interests include sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. His recent publications appear in journals including Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Asian Englishes, ELT Journal, English Today, Language, Culture and Curriculum, Language Teaching Research, Lingua, RELC Journal, System, and The Journal of Asia TEFL.

Dr David Gerlach is a full professor at the University of Wuppertal (Germany). His research and teaching focus on professional development of language teachers, critical pedagogy, and inclusive language teaching. Lately, he has been involved in conceptualizing more critical perspectives for inclusive language teaching and language teacher education in Germany.

Following a career teaching English, Louise Gilbert started work at Cambridge University Press and Assessment in 2007. Now a Senior Assessment Manager, she is involved in equity and inclusion in testing through her work on exam access arrangements and her role as Chair of the EDIB in Content Creation Group.

Dr Christoph A Hafner is Associate Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on English for specific purposes, digital literacies, and language learning and technology. His latest book is Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) (Routledge, 2021, co-authored with Rodney Jones).

Dr Tomokazu Ishikawa is an assistant professor at Tamagawa University’s Center for English as a Lingua Franca and a postdoctoral member at the University of Southampton’s Centre for Global Englishes. He is a co-author of Transcultural communication through Global Englishes: An advanced textbook for students (with Will Baker, Routledge, 2021).

Dr Sally Ann Jones is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head (Programmes and Teaching) in the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She has taught in schools and in teacher education. Her research centres on language in education – as thinking and as culture.

Dr Hanan Khalifa is an award winning and leading language testing expert Council of Europe CEFR expert who developed and validated national and international assessments, led the alignment of national curriculum and examinations to international standards, and presented and published extensively on these areas. Hanan has worked and consulted for ministries of education, examination boards and international development agencies.

Dr Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia. He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a frequent plenary speaker at ELT international conferences and has published extensively in the area of second language education. His publications include Language Teaching Methodology: An anthology of current practice (2002, Cambridge University Press), Student-centred cooperative learning (2019, Springer International), and a recently published book chapter Growing Our Research Impact (2020, Springer International). He maintains a large language teacher professional development forum called Teacher Voices: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachervoices/

Dr. Corinne Seals is Senior Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), and she is the Director of Translanguaging Aotearoa. She has published 30+ articles and book chapters, and four books including recently Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom (2020, Bloomsbury), Translanguaging in Conjunction with Language Revitalization (2020, System), Embracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts (2019, VU Press), and Heritage Language Policies Around the World (2017, Routledge). Corinne’s research is focused on language and identity, and the role of translanguaging, especially for heritage language speakers. She also actively researches language policy and planning, linguistic landscapes, and forensic linguistics.

Dr Supong Tangkiengsirisin is an associate professor and the Director of the Language Institute Thammasat University, Thailand. His areas of interest include English written discourse, writing strategies, ESP, genre analysis, and second language writing instruction and research.

Dr Ruanni Tupas is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University College London, Institute of Education. His areas of research are in language in education, Unequal Englishes, and language policy.

Subhan Zein, PhD teaches at Australian National University (ANU). He is the author of Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia, and he has also published two other monographs, 32 refereed articles and chapters, and six academic volumes. He has been awarded Australia’s 2021 Top Researcher in English Language and Literature.