Dr Jason Anderson (University of Warwick) is a teacher educator, author, educational consultant and researcher, who works in language teaching and mainstream education. He has supported teachers in over 30 countries worldwide, both pre-service and in-service, for national ministries of education and organizations including UNICEF and the British Council. He has published award-winning books and research on aspects of language teaching, multilingualism, teacher reflection, teacher expertise and teacher education. His latest book, Teacher Expertise in the Global South, investigates what quality in education means in the global South and why it is often misunderstood or overlooked by educational reform initiatives.
Robbie Love is Lecturer in English Language at Aston University, UK, where he is co-director of Aston Corpus Linguistics Research Group. He is a corpus linguist, specialising in contemporary spoken discourse, and advocates for the application of corpus approaches to address societal challenges. Prior to joining Aston University, he completed his PhD at Lancaster University and held post-doctoral research positions at Cambridge University Press & Assessment and the University of Leeds. His books include Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction: The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Love, 2020, Routledge) and Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective (Boucher et al., 2024, Palgrave), and his research is published in journals including Applied Corpus Linguistics, Corpora, English Language and Linguistics and International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. He is the host of CorpusCast, the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society.
Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include all aspects of the psychology surrounding the foreign language learning experience. She is the author, co-author and co-editor of several books in this area. She has published over 150 book chapters and journal articles and has served as Principal Investigator on several funded research projects. In 2018, she was awarded the Robert C. Gardner Award for excellence in second language research by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP). For more visit here
Pascual Pérez-Paredes is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Linguistics, U. Murcia, and former Lecturer in Research in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are the use of corpus linguistics methods in applied linguistics, corpora and digital resources in language education, and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. He was the Overall Coordinator of the MEd Research Methods Strand at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (2016-2019). Pascual is Assistant Editor of CUP ReCALL. He is now the PI of a European project that examines intra-mobility discourses of EU citizens in the EU. For more info check out: https://webs.um.es/pascualf
Shelley Staples is Associate Professor of English/Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at University of Arizona. Her research focuses on corpus-based analyses of speech and writing, with a particular emphasis on academic writing and health care communication. As a long-time classroom teacher and teacher educator, she is particularly interested in corpus applications to classroom teaching. Her publications include a 2015 monograph with John Benjamins, The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions, a 2016 edited volume with Palgrave titled Talking at Work: Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse, and a 2021 co-authored book from Routledge, The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity. Her journal articles can be found in such publications as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, English for Specific Purposes Journal, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. She is the PI of two learner corpus projects, the Corpus and Repository of Writing (Crow) and Multilingual Corpus of Assignments—Writing and Speech (MACAWS).
