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About Susan Hunston

Professor Susan Hunston is Head of School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a wealth of experience working in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics and is author of numerous publications, including Corpora in Applied Linguistics. She was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics until 2009, and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics series, with Carol Chapelle.

About John Field

John Field teaches psycholinguistics, child language and English grammar at the University of Reading, and he is also attached to the School of Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder of the BAAL Psycholinguistics Group, a member of the Advisory Board of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and a member of BAAL Executive Committee. He has taught at a number of UK universities and lectures widely on L2 listening and on the implications of psycholinguistics in second language acquisition. He has worked as a teacher trainer, materials writer and syllabus designer in many parts of the world and is the author of Listening in the Language Classroom, which won the 2008 Ben Warren International House Trust Prize.

About Regina Weinert

Regina Weinert is originally from Hamburg, but moved to Scotland after leaving school and has been based in the UK ever since. She has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Hull and has been at the University of Sheffield since 1996, where she is Reader in Germanic Linguistics. Her research spans theoretical linguistics, general linguistics and theoretical and descriptive German and English linguistics, as well as language acquisition. Her recent work involves a comprehensive analysis of spoken language syntax, pragmatics and discourse.

About Rose Senior

Rose Senior is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. She has taught English in Colombia, the UK and Australia. She has published a number of articles in academic journals including ELT Journal and has a regular column in English Teaching Professional. She is the author of the award-winning The Experience of Language Teaching (2006), which describes communicative language teaching from the perspective of EFL, ESL and foreign language teachers.

About Andy Kirkpatrick

Andy Kirkpatrick is currently Head of the Department of English at Hong Kong Institute of Education and sits on the international editorial board of The New English Teacher. He is author of World Englishes, Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching (2007). From 1997–2005 he was Professor of Language Education at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He developed and wrote the World Englishes unit currently taught at Curtin. He is a specialist in "China English" who has taught in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as in Australia, England, Myanmar and Singapore. He was editor of English Australia Journal from 1999–2004.

About Do Coyle

Do Coyle has been Professor of Learning Innovation at the University of Aberdeen since summer 2008. She came to Aberdeen from the University of Nottingham, where she was Associate Professor of Education, Co-Director of the university's CETL-Visual Learning Lab and member of the Learning Sciences Research Institute. Professor Coyle is an international expert in CLIL and has played a major role in the European movement associated with bilingual and modern languages education. Working towards the 'borderless classroom', she has created innovative approaches to video conferencing using the Teaching and Learning Observatory concept. She is a member of the international research group on learning strategies (IPOLLS), the European research group for CLIL (CLILCOM) and is guest editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.