Dr Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, FHEA, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. His research focuses on the experiences and professional learning of language teachers. Benjamin’s articles have appeared in SYSTEM, TESOL Quarterly, RELC Journal, and ELT Journal.

Dr Dario Luis Banegas is a Lecturer in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. He is also a tutor for IFDC Lenguas Vivas Bariloche. Dario carries out research in Latin America and the UK. Areas of interest: language teacher education, action research, and content and language integrated learning.

Dr Lawrence Zhang, Ph.D., is a Professor of Linguistics-in-Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand. His 100-plus publications in RELC Journal, Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, SSLA, JSLW, System, TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics Review, Metacognition and Learning, among others, have examined issues relating to learner metacognition/self-regulated learning and language-teacher education. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief for System.

Dr Supakorn Phoocharoensil is an Associate Professor of English at Language Institute Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, indexed in SCOPUS and ERIC. His areas of research interest include Second Language Acquisition, Corpus Linguistics, and English Collocations and Formulaic Language.

Dr Sender Dovchin is the Director of Research at the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia. She is a critical applied linguist, who was identified as “Top Researcher in the field of Language & Linguistics” under The Humanities, Arts & Literature of The Australian’s 2021 Research Magazine and Top 250 Researchers in Australia. She has authored articles in international peer-reviewed journals and authored six books with publishers such as Routledge, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Multilingual Matters.

Dr Kevin Wong is an Assistant Professor and Chair of TESOL at Pepperdine University. He is a former primary school teacher who later received his Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from New York University. His research sits at the intersection of multilingual pedagogy, multiracial education, and teacher preparation. Visit: www.kevin-m-wong.com

Dr Caroline Ho is the Lead Specialist at the English Language Institute of Singapore, MOE with a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham. She is concurrently serving in MOE Professional Development Planning Office. Her research interests include language teacher professional development and design research in new media. Her previous appointments were at the National Institute of Education (NIE) and MOE as Specialist Inspector, English Language.

Dr Peter Gu is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His academic interests include language learning strategies and language assessment. His recent book, Classroom-based formative assessment, was published in 2019 by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in China.

Dr Jim McKinley, SFHEA, is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at University College London. He has taught in higher education mainly in the UK, Japan, and Australia. His research targets implications of globalization for L2 writing and higher education studies. Jim is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal System.

Dr Carolyn Blume is an Assistant Professor for digitally-mediated teaching and learning at Dortmund Competence Center for Teacher Education & Research (DoKoLL), Technical University Dortmund, Germany.

Prof Judy Noguchi, Professor Emerita, Kobe Gakuin University, does research, materials development and teaching in English for Specific Purposes. Publications (2022): Reviewing the scientific review article, The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication; Genre-based, corpus-supported writing courses for science and engineering students at Japanese universities, STEM English in Japan (Palgrave Macmillan).

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.

Mr Ian Clifford has worked in the UK as a primary school teacher and manager of school governor training, family literacy, community regeneration projects and supplementary schools. In Asia, Ian has worked for the British Council in management roles with large-scale teacher development projects in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Ian is the Head of English Programmes East Asia for the British Council.

Mr David Booth is the Director of Test Development for Pearson Tests of English. He is responsible for the development of specific Pearson tests ensuring that all test development processes are executed to the highest standards and that test material is of the highest quality and fit for purpose. David works closely with other staff at Pearson to develop assessment and learning solutions to meet specific customer requirements. David’s main expertise is in the development and revision of tests and he has given presentations at major conferences on this theme. David has also contributed articles on specific test development projects in published research notes. David’s other interests include corpus linguistics and assessment for specific purposes. Before joining Pearson, David worked for 10 years at Cambridge ESOL, a part of Cambridge Assessment. David also has extensive academic management, teaching and teacher training experience working for the British Council in South Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia.