HIROKO AKIBA Assistant Professor and International Education Advisor at the School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, JapanMARTIN CORTAZZI Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UKTRICIA COVERDALE-JONES Principal Lecturer in the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, UKJOSEPH FALOUT Assistant Professor at Nihon University, College of Science and Technology, JapanSUSAN GIBBS Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Portsmouth, UKDAISUKE HIROUCHI Assistant Professor at the Liberal and General Education Center, Utsunomiya University, JapanRICHARD HITCHCOCK Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UKLIXIAN JIN Professor of Linguistics and Intercultural Learning and the Director of the Centre for Research in Intercultural Communication and Learning (CIRCL) at De Montfort University, UKMARKUS LUX Head of Section Education at Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart, GermanyJESILIN MANJULA Lecturer at Sunway University, MalaysiaJOHN NAYSMITH Head of the School of Languages & Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UKZHAOYING REN Associate Professor in teaching English as a foreign language at Kunming University of Science and Technology, ChinaGORDON SLETHAUG teaches in English Studies and Speech Communications at the University of Waterloo, CanadaJIRO TAKAI Professor of Social Psychology at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, JapanTIAN TAN International Admissions Specialist in the University of Pittsburgh Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, USAANJA TIMM Senior Research Fellow in Education and Deputy Director of the Medical Education Development Unit at the University of Southampton, UKJOHN C. WEIDMAN Professor of Higher Education at the University of Pittsburgh, USAMARK WYATT Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, ULAKIYOSHI YONEZAWA Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, JapanLIN ZHENG Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK