Richard Cullen is an associate lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research interests include classroom interaction, spoken grammar, the teaching and learning of grammar, and more recently, collaborative learning. He has published in all these areas. Some of the transcript data to support these areas of research comes from his work overseas for the British Council, where he was involved in teaching, training and curriculum development in Nepal, Greece, Egypt, Bangladesh and Tanzania. Since joining Canterbury Christ Church University, his work with Malaysian student teachers on a BEd. TESL programme has provided a rich source of data for researching online collaborative learning processes.

Robert M. DeKeyser is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on topics such as implicit vs. explicit learning, automatisation of rule knowledge, individual differences and study abroad. He has published in a variety of journals, including Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Applied Linguistics and Applied Psycholinguistics; he has also contributed chapters to several highly regarded handbooks. In 2007 he published an edited volume with Cambridge University Press entitled Practice in a Second Language: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology. He served as editor of Language Learning from 2005 to 2010.

Patrycja Golebiewska is an associate lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at the University of Central Lancashire. She has been involved in English teaching and research in the UK and China since conducting her MA by Research in TESOL in 2013. Patrycja has worked on student corpus data analysis and conducted research into the learning and teaching of lexical chunks. Patrycja’s interests include formulaic sequences and the development of pragmatic competence.

Nicola Halenko is a senior lecturer in English language teaching at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research interest is in second language pragmatics. Her published work focuses on technology-enhanced teaching and learning, and pragmatic development in the study abroad context. Recent projects include a forthcoming co-authored book by Routledge on successful spoken communication.

Todd A. Hernández (PhD, University of Kansas) is an associate professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics, and the Language Program Coordinator for Spanish at Marquette University (USA). He joined Marquette University’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in 2004, where he teaches a wide range of courses in Spanish Applied Linguistics, Spanish Language and Language Teaching Methodology. His research focuses on language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and language and culture learning during study abroad. His current research project, which was awarded an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Research Priorities grant, examines the effects of pedagogical intervention on the pragmatic development of Spanish language learners during study abroad in Spain.

Christian Jones is a senior lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool. He has been involved in English language teaching for over 20 years and has worked in China, Japan, Thailand and the UK, as a teacher, teacher-trainer and researcher. His main research interests are connected to spoken language and he has produced a number of publications related to spoken corpora, lexis, lexico-grammar and instructed second language acquisition. He is the co-author (with Daniel Waller) of Corpus Linguistics for Grammar: A Guide for Research (2015) and is currently a member of the editorial panel for ELT Journal.

Jeanne McCarten has been involved in ELT in various roles for over 35 years. As a teacher, she taught in Sweden, France, Malaysia and the UK. As a publisher, she specialised in examinations, grammar and vocabulary materials and was also closely involved in the development of the spoken English sections of the Cambridge English Corpus. Currently a freelance ELT author, her main interests lie in applying insights from corpus research to language teaching, about which she has published several academic papers. She is co-author of the corpus-informed materials Touchstone, Viewpoint and Grammar for Business, published by Cambridge University Press.

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, and Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. He is author/co-author/editor of 50 books, including Touchstone, Viewpoint, the Cambridge Grammar of English, English Grammar Today and English Grammar: Your Questions Answered, as well as titles in the English Vocabulary in Use series. He is author/co-author of more than 100 academic papers. He is co‑director (with Ronald Carter) of the CANCODE spoken English corpus. He has lectured in 46 countries and has been involved in language teaching and applied linguistics for 51 years.

Marije Michel is a lecturer at Lancaster University (UK). She studied Dutch and German at Utrecht University and holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam. As a postdoctoral researcher at Mannheim University (Germany), she co-developed the online tool SprachKoPF, which assesses pre-school teachers’ knowledge about language support. Since her arrival at Lancaster University in 2012, her research and teaching has focused on cognitive-interactionist approaches to SLA and task-based language pedagogy. More recently, she has started using eye-tracking methodology to investigate digitally mediated communication and L2 writing. Marije has published in Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition and The Modern Language Journal.

Laura Marqués-Pascual is a teaching professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she directs the Spanish and Portuguese Language Program. Her research interests focus on second language learning in study abroad settings, second language acquisition of syntax, and Spanish as a heritage language. She also has a long-standing interest in how linguistics research is applied to issues such as language teaching pedagogy and curriculum improvement. She did her undergraduate work at the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid) and holds an MA from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD from University of California, Davis. Most recently she has been the UC Education Abroad program director in Spain.

Colin Thompson is an assistant professor of English in the Center for Language Education at Josai International University in Japan. He has extensive teaching experience at university level in Japan, including English teacher training. He graduated with a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Central Lancashire. His research interests concern cognitive accounts of second language acquisition and language pedagogy.

Ivor Timmis is Reader in English Language Teaching at Leeds Beckett University. His main research interests are in corpus linguistics and the relationship between corpus research and language teaching, with a particular emphasis on spoken language research. He has had three articles published in the ELT Journal on this topic and he is the author of Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Research and Practice (2015). His work in ELT has taken him to around 30 countries for conferences and projects. More recently, he has developed an interest in historical spoken language research and received a Leverhulme grant for his work in this area. He has recently written a book about this research entitled Historical Spoken Language Research: Corpus Perspectives (2017).

Carol Wild is a senior lecturer in the School of Language Studies and Applied Linguistics, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her research interests focus on the use of technology in the language classroom and teacher development. She has been involved in teacher development workshops on the use of technology for teaching and learning in Malaysia and curriculum development projects in Palestine and Bangladesh.

Eve Zyzik (PhD, University of California, Davis) is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published on a variety of topics related to Spanish as a second language and Spanish as a heritage language, as well as on issues related to language pedagogy in content-based courses. Recent publications include an advanced-level textbook, El español y la lingüística aplicada (2016), with Robert Blake, and Authentic Materials Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching (2017) with Charlene Polio.