Khaled Barkaoui (kbarkaoui@edu.yorku.ca) is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, York University, Canada. His current research and teaching focus on L2 assessment, L2 writing, L2 program evaluation, longitudinal research, mixed-methods research, and EAP. His publications have appeared in Applied Linguistics, Assessing Writing, Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, System, and TESOL Quarterly. In 2012, he received the TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award in recognition of the outstanding contributions his scholarship and professional activities have made to the field of second language assessment.
Phil Benson (philip.benson@mq.edu.au) is professor of applied linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. His main research interests are in autonomy and informal language learning beyond the classroom. His interests in narrative inquiry are both methodological and practical and he is currently using narrative inquiry as an approach to collecting and analyzing data on adults’ lifelong experiences of language learning and their implications for second language identities.
Patricia (Patsy) Duff (patricia.duff@ubc.ca) is a professor of language and literacy education and coordinator of TESL and Modern Language Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include qualitative research methods in applied linguistics, multilingual socialization and academic discourse socialization, heritage language education, and the teaching and learning of English and Chinese as international languages. She has published and lectured widely on these topics.
Tania Ionin (tionin@illinois.edu) is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, with a minor in Linguistics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. In her research, she uses experimental methodology to examine the semantics of nominals, articles, and related expressions in the grammars of both native and non-native speakers. She has published her research in both semantics and SLA journals, and she is an associate editor for the journal Language Acquisition.
Eunice Eunhee Jang (eun.jang@utoronto.ca) is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Her research interests lie at the intersection between language assessment, educational measurement, and program evaluation. Her research seeks to advance practices through innovative assessment approaches that promote students’ self-regulated learning through cognitively mediated feedback. Her new book, Focus on assessment, discusses theory and practice in assessing young language learners from teachers’ perspectives.
Gabriele Kasper (gkasper@hawaii.edu) is a professor of second language studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her contributions to research methodology in applied linguistics include early publications on verbal protocols and speech act pragmatics. Recently she has been working on social interaction, learning, and assessment in multilingual contexts and on applying conversation analysis to standard research methods in applied linguistics. Her most recent book is Assessing Second Language Pragmatics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Angel Lin (angellin@hku.hk) is a professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She is well-respected for her interdisciplinary research in classroom discourse analysis, bilingual education, academic literacies, language policy in postcolonial contexts, critical discourse analysis, and cultural studies. She has published over 90 research articles and six research books.
Kara Morgan-Short (karams@uic.edu) is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and the Department of Psychology and directs the Cognition of Second Language Acquisition laboratory. Informed by the fields of linguistics, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, Kara's research takes a multidimensional approach to elucidating the cognitive and neurocognitive processes underlying late-learned second language acquisition and use.
Gina Park (parkzina@hotmail.com) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. Her research has focused on the integration of language learning, teaching and assessment in the second and foreign language contexts. Specifically, she is interested in the cognitively diagnostic assessment and the differential item functioning of test items on students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. She has taught English and Korean at the elementary and post-secondary levels.
Laura Sabourin (laura.sabourin@uottawa.ca) is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Ottawa where she is also the director of the Brain and Language Laboratory. She also has an adjunct research professor position in cognitive science at Carleton University. She conducts psycholinguistic research on the bilingual mental lexicon, second language sentence processing and on aspects of cognitive control. She has published articles on bilingualism and second language processing in Second Language Research, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, among others.
Maryam Wagner (maryam.wagner@mail.utoronto.ca) is a doctoral candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Her studies focus on language assessment with specific interest in feedback, validity, L2 writing, cognitive skill diagnosis, and the relationship between students’ motivation and assessment use. Her dissertation employed a mixed methods research design to investigate the effects of cognitive diagnostic feedback on secondary-school aged language learners’ writing development.
Paula Winke (winke@msu.edu) is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University. She is the director of the MA Program in Foreign Language Teaching, which is housed in MSU's Center for Language Teaching Advancement. She teaches and researches second language teaching methods, and classroom and standards-based foreign and second language assessment. She is the 2012 recipient of TESOL International's Award for Distinguished Research.
Eve Zyzik (ezyzik@ucsc.edu) is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. She has published on a variety of topics related to L2 Spanish (e.g., transitivity alternations, differential object marking), Spanish as a heritage language, and also more general issues such as language-focused instruction in content courses. She is particularly interested in usage-based and functional theories of language acquisition. She is currently completing an advanced-level textbook entitled El español y la lingüística aplicada with co-author Robert Blake (Georgetown University Press).
