Will Baker is Director of the Centre for Global Englishes and an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton. His research interests are Intercultural and Transcultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca, English medium education, Intercultural education and ELT, and he has published and presented internationally in all these areas. Recent publications include: co-author of ‘Transcultural Communication through Global Englishes’ (Routledge 2021), co-editor of the ‘Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca’ (2018), and author of the monograph ‘Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca: rethinking concepts and goals in intercultural communication’ (DGM 2015). He has published on subjects related to intercultural communication in many leading journals including, TESOL Quarterly, Language and Intercultural Communication, ELT Journal, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, and Language, Culture and Curriculum. He is also co-editor of the book series ‘Developments in English as Lingua Franca’ (De Gruyter Mouton).
Troy McConachy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of New South Wales. His work aims to make interdisciplinary connections between the fields of (language) education and intercultural communication, focusing particularly on the role of metapragmatic awareness in intercultural communication and intercultural learning. He has published articles in journals such as ELT Journal, Language Awareness, Intercultural Education, the Language Learning Journal, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and others. His is author of the monograph 'Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use: Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning' (Multilingual Matters), and he has co-edited 'Teaching and Learning Second Language Pragmatics for Intercultural Understanding' (with Tony Liddicoat), and 'Negotiating Intercultural Relations: Insights from Linguistics, Psychology, and Intercultural Education(with Perry Hinton). He is also Founding Editor and former Editor-in-Chief (2017-2024) of the international journal Intercultural Communication Education (Castledown).
Sonia Morán Panero is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Her academic expertise is on the sociolinguistics of the use and learning of English for transcultural communication purposes. Her work has focused particularly on language ideologies around Spanish and English as global languages, English language policies and education in Spanish-speaking settings and English medium instruction on global education. She has published on these areas through international knowledge dissemination platforms such as ELTJ, JELF, the Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (2018) and the British Council (in press), and is currently working on a monograph and an edited volume for the Contributions to the Sociology of Language and Developments in English as a lingua Franca book series (DGM, forthcoming). She is also Reviews Editor in JELF.
