Roumyana Slabakovais Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. In addition, she is Adjunct Research Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She is a Founding Co-Editor ofLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualismand is currently Co-Editor ofSecond Language Research.

Tania Lealis Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. In addition to this role, she serves as a faculty member in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT). She is Associate Editor forLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualismand contributes to the editorial board ofSecond Language Research.

Laura Dominguezis Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. She is a member of the editorial boards ofSecond Language Research, theJournal of the European Second Language Associationand theInternational Journal of Spanish as a Heritage Language. She was also a board member ofStudies in Second Language Acquisition.