Professor Anne Burns’ fields of specialization are in English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy. She was appointed as Professor in TESOL in the School of Education at UNSW from 1 July 2010. She was also appointed a member of the TESOL Research Standing Committee in 2006, and since 2009 she has been the chair of this commitee. She is also member-at large on the AILA Executive Board (International Association for Applied Linguistics).

Victoria works for the British Council and is currently the Assessment Development Manager for East Asia. Before joining the British Council, she worked as an EFL teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum designer, test developer and researcher. She also spent 11 years as a university lecturer. She has written numerous books on the General English Proficiency Test and has presented in many parts of the world. Victoria holds two Master’s degrees, one in Applied Languages and one in TEFL and she received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, England.

Thomas S.C. Farrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University, Canada. Professor Farrell’s professional interests include Reflective Practice, and Language Teacher Education. Professor Farrell has published widely and has presented at major conferences worldwide on these topics. A selection of his work can be found on his webpage: www.reflectiveinquiry.ca

Professor Christine Goh received her PhD (Linguistics) from the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University and her MA (Applied English Linguistics), which was supported by the British Chevening Scholarship, from the Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics, Birmingham University. She is Professor of Linguistics and Language Education in the English Language and Literature Academic Group (ELL) and holds a concurrent appointment as Dean of Graduate Studies and Professional Learning at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As Dean and previously as Associate Dean for Higher Degrees, Christine has been actively involved in the review, conceptualising, planning and implementation of NIE’s strategic initiatives for teacher continuing education through in-service, Masters and Doctoral programmes in the past eight years. She has developed an academic interest in continual teacher professional learning as a result.

Hanan Khalifa is Head of Research and International Education at Cambridge Assessment: English. She holds a PhD in Language Testing from Reading University and a professional MA from Cambridge University. Her publications include: Action Research, Mixed Methods in Language Testing, Examining Reading, Assessing students with disabilities and Test Development Manual.

Kurt Kohn is Emeritus Professor of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen (Germany). His professional interests include intercultural telecollaboration, English as a lingua franca, and foreign language teacher education. Recent articles include “Learner agency and non-native speaker identity in pedagogical lingua franca conversations" (with P. Hoffstaedter, CALL 2017, 30/5) and “Towards the reconciliation of ELF and EFL” (In N. Sifakis & N. Tsantila, ELF in EFL Contexts. Multilingual Matters, 2018).

Ann Mayeda is Associate Professor in TESOL and a teacher trainer in TEYL at Konan Women’s University, Japan. Her research interests are in learner development and issues in autonomy as it applies to young learners and young adult learners. In recent years she has been active in promoting extensive reading and conducting in-service teacher training in Nepal.

Dr Johanna Motteram is an experienced English language teacher and an English language assessment specialist based in Singapore. She collaborates with British Council colleagues in the region to deliver evidence based programs to support English language learning and test preparation, and provides advice on assessment related problems to schools and other stakeholders.

Jonathan Newton is an Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (LALS), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research and scholarship focus on language teacher education, task-based language teaching, and intercultural perspectives on language education. He has published more than 50 book chapters and articles. His most recent (co-authored) book, due for publication through Routledge in early 2018, is titled Teaching English Language Learners in Academic Contexts: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening.

Professor David Nunan is an Honorary Professor at the UNSW School of Education. He is also Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong and Vice-President for Student Affairs at Anaheim University. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stockholm, Sweden, and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He has written over 100 books and articles in the areas of classroom based research, curriculum development and discourse analysis. Recent books include What Is This Thing Called Language? (Palgrave/ Macmillan) and, with Kathi Bailey, Exploring Second Language Classroom Research (Heinle).

Amos Paran is a Reader in Second Language Education at the UCL Institute of Education. His main areas of interest are using literature in EFL and reading in EFL. He is the co-author of Literature (OUP, 2016) and tutor on the free MOOC, Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach.

The author of numerous works on the global spread of English, critical applied linguistics, and urban multilingualism, Alastair Pennycook is Distinguished Professor of Language, Society and Education at UTS and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo. His most recent book is Posthumanist Applied Linguistics (Routledge).

Professor Jack Richards has had an active career in the Asia Pacific region, is a frequent presenter worldwide and has written over 150 books , articles, and classroom texts. Publications include Key Issues in Language Teaching (Cambridge), Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching 3rd edition (Cambridge), and Language Learning Beyond the Classroom (with David Nunan, Routledge).