INMA ALVAREZ Lecturer in Spanish language and culture at the University of Michigan, USA and Head of Spanish at The Open University, UKSOPHIE BAILLY Professor in Sociolinguistics and in Foreign Languages Teaching and Learning (Foreign Languages Didactics) in the Department of Linguistics at the Université de Lorraine, FranceMARTIN CORTAZZI Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UKPHIL GLENWRIGHT (retired) was previously Senior Lecturer in English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong KongELI HINKEL teaches linguistics and applied linguistics at Seattle University, USAMASAKO K. HIRAGA Professor in Linguistics at the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, JapanJANE JACKSON Professor in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong KongLIXIAN JIN Chair Professor of Linguistics and Intercultural Learning and the Director of the Centre for Research in Intercultural Communication and Learning (CIRCL) at De Montfort University, UKKAN QIAN Lecturer in Chinese and course chair for Beginners' Chinese at The Open University, UKXIAOHUA LIANG Associate Professor in Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, ChinaMARKUS LUX Head of Section Good Governance and Education in the Department for International Relations for Central and South-eastern Europe, CIS and China, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany NICK PILCHER Lecturer in In-sessional English for AcademicPurposes in the School of Marketing Tourism and Languages, Edinburgh Napier University, UKKENDALL RICHARDS Lecturer with the role of Academic Support Adviser in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, UKGILLIAN SKYRME Lecturer in Linguistics and Second Language Teaching at Massey University, New ZealandGORDON SLETHAUG Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, CanadaJOAN TURNER Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for English Language and Academic Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, UKJANE VINTHER Associate Professor and Head of English Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Campus Kolding, DenmarkWANG JINJING PhD student in Linguistics in the University of Lorraine, France and teaches in the department of Linguistics as an Assistant LecturerLIANG WANG EU-funded language project research assistant based at SOAS, University of London, as well as an Associate Lecturer in Chinese at the Open University, UKWANG LIXUN Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics in the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong KongTHUSHARI WELIKALA Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UKCHRISTIAN WOCHELE Project Manager for the lectureship program in Eastern Europe and China, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany