Helen Louise Basturkmen Helen Louise Basturkmen, PhD from Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, is currently professor of Applied Languages Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, Australia. Prior to this position, she worked as a lecturer and teacher educator in Turkey and the Middle East. She is now on the editorial review board of…
Xuesong (Andy) Gao Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an associate professor at the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia. He has been involved in language teacher education in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan. His research interests include language learner autonomy, language education policy, and language teacher education. His research has…
Yukio Tono Yukio Tono is a Professor of Corpus Linguistics and Director of the World Language Center at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He received his Ph.D. in corpus linguistics at Lancaster University. His research interest includes corpus applications in foreign language teaching and learning, corpus-based SLA research, and corpus approaches to CEFR-related research and…
James P. Lantolf Professor James P. Lantolf earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA in 1974. He is currently George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics, Director of the Center for Language Acquisition, and Co-director of Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at this…
Diane Pecorari Professor Diane Pecorari, currently Head of Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, works within the area of English Applied Linguistics. Her research has investigated aspects of English for academic purposes and second-language writing, (including source use and plagiarism), and the widespread and growing phenomenon of English medium instruction. She has taught…
Norbert Schmitt Professor Norbert Schmitt (currently Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of English, University of Nottingham, UK) began his career in 1988 as an EFL teacher in Japan and quickly became interested in how language learners acquire their second languages. During his Masters study at Temple University, Japan, he began researching how students learn…
Yukio Tono Yukio Tono is a Professor of Corpus Linguistics and Director of the World Language Center at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He received his Ph.D. in corpus linguistics at Lancaster University. His research interest includes corpus applications in foreign language teaching and learning, corpus-based SLA research, and corpus approaches to CEFR-related research and…
Stephen Krashen Stephen Krashen received a PhD. in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. Krashen has among papers (peer-reviewed and not) and books, more than 486 publications, contributing to the fields of second-language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He is known for introducing various hypotheses related to second-language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective…
Ryuko Kubota Ryuko Kubota is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at University of British Columbia, Canada, where she teaches applied linguistics and teacher education. Her research draws on critical approaches to language education, focusing on race, gender, culture, and language ideologies. Her work has been published in journals, such as…
Paul Kei Matsuda Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, where he works closely with PhD students specializing in second language writing from various disciplinary perspectives. He has published widely on issues related to language and writing, and given lectures and workshops all around the…