JOACHIM APPEL is currently Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching in the Department of English at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, GermanyVIVIAN COOK is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UKIRINA ELGORT is Lecturer in Higher Education at Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandROD ELLIS is currently Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New ZealandDIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USACONSTANT LEUNG is Professor of Educational Linguistics at King's College London, University of London, UKFLORENCE MYLES is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS) at Newcastle University, UKPAUL NATION is professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandAMY SNYDER OHTA is Associate Professor at the University of Washington, USASIMONA PEKAREK DOEHLER is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandMANFRED PIENEMANN is professor of Linguistics at Paderborn University, Germany