Peter Bimmel worked as a teacher educator for German language and literature Graduate School of Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Educational Sciences of the University of Utrecht. His research interests are reading comprehension, learning strategies and task-based language teaching.
Martine Braaksma works since 2015 as senior policy advisor at the Education Council of the Netherlands. Formerly she was assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam (Research Institute of Child Development and Education). Since 1996, she performed research in the field of writing. In 2002 she received her PhD (thesis: Observational learning in argumentative writing). Main research interests are: (measuring) writing processes, hypertext writing, writing interventions, observational learning, writing-to-learn, and transfer from writing to reading.
Julie Carver is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University, where teaches French as a foreign language and ESL courses. Her research interests include instructed SLA, task-based language teaching (TBLT), classroom-based research, and computer-mediated communication (CMC).
Robin Cathey earned her MA in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State. Awarded two Fulbright grants to teach Roma students in Hungary, she currently teaches Muslim minority students in India as an English Language Fellow (U.S. Department of State.) She is passionate about empowering students through access to academic resources.
Christina Gkonou, PhD, is Associate Professor of TESOL at the University of Essex, UK. Her research and teaching focus on the psychology of language learning and teaching, and teacher education. She is specifically interested in language learner anxiety and the interface between language teacher emotions, identities and teaching practice.
Amelia Jenkins is the Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM). She held the rank of Professor and served as past chair of the Department of Special Education. Her research interests include mild disabilities and teacher preparation.
YeonJoo Jung is an assistant professor in the Department of English Education of Pusan National University in South Korea. Her research interests include second language acquisition (SLA) and task-based language teaching. Within SLA, her primary focus is on the application of experimental techniques from psychology to second language processing and acquisition.
YouJin Kim is specialized in SLA, particularly focusing on the interface between SLA theories and classroom instruction. She has also published widely on task-based language teaching and assessment. She is the co-author of Pedagogical Grammar (2014) and the co-editor of Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics (2018).
Hikyoung Lee is a professor of TESOL and applied linguistics in the Department of English Language & Literature at Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Her research interests include but are not limited to English in higher education, language policy, materials writing, and English as a lingua franca.
Ying Li is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Political Science and Law, China. Her research interests include but not limited to second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, and prosody.
Elizabeth R. Miller, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research has focused on identity, agency, and ideology in relation to language learning among adult immigrants in the U.S. and, more recently, the relationship of identity, agency and emotions in language teacher practice.
Jessica Miranda is the Director of Assessment, Accreditation, and Accountability for the College of Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM). She is a Doctoral Candidate in the PhD in Educational Psychology program with a specialization in Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, and holds an M.A. in Second Language Studies.
Gert Rijlaarsdam is full professor of curriculum innovation in language and literature education at the University of Amsterdam and Antwerp. His research interests are learning and task processes in language education, and how to improve these. He is editor of the Journal of Writing Research (co-founder) and Learning and Instruction, is co-founder of the international association for research on L1-education, chairperson of the Dutch national association of Teacher of Living Languages, and member of editorial boards of various journals in educational psychology, and writing research.
Stephen Skalicky is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests include intersections among linguistic creativity, language, and cognition.
Taylor Somlak is an English teacher at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Her research interests mainly include second language acquisition and language teaching practice.
Marrit van de Guchte is an assistant professor and teacher educator in Foreign Language Pedagogy at the Graduate School of Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Educational Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are language development through task-based language teaching (TBLT), communicative grammar teaching and the use of digital interaction tools in the modern language classroom.
Jenny C. Wells is a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research interests are in Special Education teacher education, online teaching and learning, and evidence-based practices in severe disabilities and autism.
