RIIKKA ALANEN is Professor of Applied Language Studies, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland SOPHIE BAILLY is a Professor of Sociolinguistics and language teaching and learning in the Department of Linguistics at Nancy Université, France GARY BARKHUIZEN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand DAVID DIVITA is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Pomona College in Claremont, California, USA HANNELE DUFVA is Professor of Language Learning and Teaching, Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland MARTINA EMKE works for the b.i.b. International College in Hannover, Germany, as a Lecturer in English and Business Studies PAULA KALAJA is Professor of English, Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland LEENA KUURE works as a Lecturerin the Faculty of Humanities, English Philology at the University of Oulu, Finland VERA MENEZES is Full Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil GAROLD MURRAY is Associate Professor in the Language Education Center, Okayama University, Japan DAVID PALFREYMAN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages at Zayed University, Dubai ÅSA PALVIAINEN is a lecturer in Swedish, Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland URSULA STICKLER is a Lecturer in German in the Department of Languages at the Open University, UK PIA SUNDQVIST works as a lecturer and researcher at Karlstad University, Sweden ERICA ZIMMERMAN is an Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Languages and Cultures Department at the United States Naval Academy