Anne Burns is Professor of TESOL in the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia, where she supervises doctoral students from many different parts of the world. She has researched and published extensively in the areas of action research, second language teacher education, and the teaching of speaking.
Yuan-shan Chen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied English, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan. Her research interests primarily lie in the areas of L2 pragmatics and L2 writing.
Thomas SC Farrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University, Canada. Professor Farrell’s professional interests include Reflective Practice, and Language Teacher Education & Development. Professor Farrell has published widely in academic journals and has presented at major conferences worldwide on these topics. His webpage is: www.reflectiveinquiry.ca
Sue-san Ghahremani Ghajar is an Associate Professor of Literacy and Language Education at Alzahra University in Tehran. One of her contributions to the Iranian foreign language community has been to create EFL/ESL learning and teaching materials rooted in the rich 2000-year-old Iranian-Islamic history.
Fatemeh Janahmadi is an Associate Professor of History of Islam at Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. She has published widely on Islamic culture, civilization, education and historiography. She is the Editor in chief of Quarterly Research Journal of Islamic History.
Icy Lee is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has published extensively in the areas of feedback and classroom assessment in second language writing.
Pauline Mak is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Languages at the Open University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in second language writing, second language teacher education and language assessment.
Carmen Pasamar Márquez is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, where she is Course Leader for both the BA (Hons) in Applied Languages and the MLang. She is Year Abroad Coordinator for Spain and Link Tutor for Erasmus exchanges with several Spanish universities. She teaches Spanish and Interpreting.
Soheila Salahimoghaddam is an Assistant Professor of Persian Literature at Alzahra University, Tehran. She has published widely on comparative Persian-English Literature, mystic and religious poetry, modern poetry, and literary styles.
Seyyedeh Fahimeh Parsaiyan is a PhD graduate in TEFL from Alzahra University, Tehran. Her areas of interest include materials development, classroom research, and qualitative inquiry. In recent years, she has developed a special interest in examining teaching as art and in exploring artistic approaches to language teaching.
Richard Pinner has been a language teacher since 2004. He is particularly interested in teacher development through Narrative Inquiry and Exploratory Practice research. He has a forthcoming monograph for Multilingual Matters’ SLA series entitled Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language. He keeps a blog at uniliterate.com.
Mark Wyatt is an Assistant Professor, Communications, at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, supporting research projects and engaging in practitioner research. His qualitative case studies of teachers’ developing practical knowledge and self-efficacy beliefs during in-service language teacher education in Oman have appeared in journals such as ELTJ, QSE, and System.
Rebecca Zoshak is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. She is writing her dissertation on teaching humor in the English as a Second Language classroom. Her research interests include L2 humor, language play, teacher education, and English for Specific Purposes.
