Geraldine Mark is an applied corpus linguist with experience in research, teaching and learning, publishing and materials design. Her principal interests are in corpus linguistics and its diverse applications, particularly in relation to language development, both written and spoken, pragmatics, data-driven learning, and multi-modal interaction. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta, and advises on the FoRCE project, building and analysing a corpus of Maltese English. She is a Research Associate on a multi-modal project, IVO , funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Irish Research Council, examining online workplace interaction. She is co-author of English Grammar Today (2011, Cambridge University Press, with Ronald Carter, Michael McCarthy and Anne O’Keeffe) and co-principal researcher (with Anne O’Keeffe) of the English Grammar Profile, an online resource profiling L2 grammar development.
Lourdes Ortega is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She was born, raised, and college-educated in southern Spain, spent a year abroad at the University of Munich in the early 1980s, worked as a teacher of Spanish in Greece for most of her 20s, and obtained her doctorate in the United States, the country where she has lived for 30 years now. With nearly 19,000 citations and an h-index of 51, Lourdes investigates second language acquisition, particularly usage-based, multilingual, and social justice dimensions in adult classroom settings. She is best known for her award-winning meta-analysis of second-language instruction in 2000, her best-seller textbook Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, translated into Mandarin in 2016), and for championing a bilingual turn in SLA. Her latest book is The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism (with Annick De Houwer, CUP, 2019). Lourdes is the General Editor of Language Learning and President Elect of the American Association for Applied Linguistics.
Pascual Pérez-Paredes is Professor in 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 corpora and digital resources in language education, learner language variation, 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 Cambridge University Press ReCALL journal (4.235 IF 2021; ranked 13th in Linguistics), and member of various editorial boards and scientific panels in applied linguistics. His latest books are Corpus linguistics for education. A guide for research, Routledge, and Beyond concordance lines: corpora in language education, co-edited with Dr Geraldine Mark for John Benjamins. Find out more here
Sarah Mercer is a 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).
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, and 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).
