Rebekha Abbuhl is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at California State University Long Beach. Second language writing, interactionist approaches to second language acquisition, and teacher training are her main research areas.
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is Professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on second language acquisition of temporal expression including tense-aspect and narrative development and acquisition of second language pragmatics including the acquisition of sociopragmatic rules, pragmalinguistic resources, and conventional expressions.
Robert Bayley is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. He has conducted research on variation in L1 and L2 English, Spanish, and ASL as well as ethnographic research in US Latino communities.
Martha Bigelow is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the language learning and cultural adaptation of immigrant youth. She is co-author of Literacy and Second Language Oracy (2009) and author of Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity and Education in a New Land (2010).
Heidi Byrnes is George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the development of advanced L2 literacy. She has addressed that topic in edited and co-edited volumes and papers, most recently in the co-authored monograph Realizing Advanced Foreign Language Writing Development in Collegiate Education: Curricular Design, Pedagogy, Assessment.
Carol Chapelle is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. She is editor of The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell); co-editor of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series; past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2006–2007); and former editor of TESOL Quarterly (1999–2004).
Robert DeKeyser is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include age effects in second language learning, individual differences and their interaction with second language teaching methodology, the relationship between implicit and explicit learning, the role of negative feedback, and study abroad.
Kathleen Dillon is Associate Director of the University of California Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching. She has published on topics pertaining to the poetics of Boris Pasternak, biography of Russian Women Poets, and heritage language acquisition and pedagogy.
Zoltán Dörnyei is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. He has published widely on various aspects of second language acquisition and is the author of several books, including The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and Researching Motivation (Second Edition with Ema Ushioda).
Patricia Duff is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Chinese Language and Literacy Education. Her recent publications deal primarily with language socialization in linguistically diverse communities and qualitative research methods in applied linguistics.
Fred Eckman is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on second language (L2) acquisition theory, and on the explanation of interphonology and L2 syntax.
Nick Ellis is Research Scientist at the English Language Institute, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. His research interests include cognitive, psycholinguistic, complex systems, and emergentist aspects of language. He serves as general editor of Language Learning.
Susan Gass is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University where she serves as Director of the English Language Center and Director of the Second Language Studies program. Her research focuses on second language input and interaction. She is co-author of Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course.
ZhaoHong Han is Professor of Language and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests lie broadly in second language learnability and teachability. Her latest book is Linguistic Relativity in SLA: Thinking for Speaking (co-edited with Teresa Cadierno, Multilingual Matters).
Debra Hardison is Associate Professor in the TESOL and Second Language Studies programs at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on auditory-visual integration in spoken language processing with an emphasis on second-language speech development. Studies include applications of technology for perception and production training of segmental and prosodic elements.
Trude Heift is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her main research areas are computer-assisted language learning, applied and computational linguistics. She is currently associate editor of Language Learning & Technology.
Jörg-U. Keβler is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany. He is editor of Processability Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning and co-editor of an introductory textbook on PT. His main research areas are (instructed) second language acquisition, early foreign language learning and immersion & CLIL.
Olga Kagan is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA and Director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center. Her research focuses on heritage language learners. She co-edits the Heritage Language Journal and has co-authored eight textbooks of Russian, including two textbooks for heritage language learners.
Keiko Koda is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on second language reading and biliteracy development. She authored Insights into Second Language Reading and edited/ co-edited Reading and Language Learning and Learning to Read across Languages.
Folkert Kuiken is Professor of Dutch as a Second Language at the University of Amsterdam, where he coordinates the Dual Master of Dutch as a Second Language. His research interests include the effect of task complexity and interaction on SLA, Focus on Form, and the relationship between linguistic complexity and communicative adequacy.
Barbara Lafford is Professor of Spanish in the School of International Letters & Cultures at Arizona State University. She is editor of the Monograph/Focus Issues Series for the Modern Language Journal. Her main research areas are second language acquisition in study abroad and classroom environments, applied linguistics, and CALL.
James Lantolf is Greer Professor in Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics at Penn State University. His research focus is on sociocultural theory and second language acquisition. He co-authored Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development and co-edited Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages.
Donna Lardiere is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is author of Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study (Taylor & Francis/Routledge). Her research focuses on the role of linguistic theory in second language acquisition, particularly the acquisition of morphology and syntax.
Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Her areas of interest are second language acquisition, English grammar, language teacher education, and language teaching methodology.
Batia Laufer is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses mainly on areas in second language vocabulary acquisition: form-focused instruction, incidental learning, cross-linguistic influence, testing, reading, word difficulty and dicitonary use.
Shawn Loewen is Associate Professor in the Second Language Studies program at Michigan State University. His research interests include instructed second language acquisition, corrective feedback and L2 interaction. He teaches courses on second language acquisition and research methodology.
Alison Mackey is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University and Head of the Applied Linguistics Programs there. Her academic interests include input and interaction, research methodology, and adult and child L2 learning.
Brian MacWhinney is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and has formulated a model of language processing and learning called the Competition Model. He has also developed the CHILDES Project for the computational study of child language transcript data, and the TalkBank system for the study of adult conversational interactions.
Sally Magnan is Professor of French, Director of the Language Institute, Co-Chair of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and past editor of the Modern Language Journal. Her recent research investigates language learning during study abroad and learner issues with the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning.
Kara Morgan-Short is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Hispanic and Italian Studies and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Informed by the fields of linguistics, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, her research aims to elucidate the neurocognitive processes underlying late-learned second language acquisition and use.
I. S. P. Nation is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland, and Japan. His special interests are language teaching methodology and vocabulary learning.
John Norris is Associate Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His teaching and research focus on language pedagogy, program evaluation, educational assessment, and research synthesis.
Lourdes Ortega is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research focuses on second language acquisition, L2 writing, foreign language education, and research methods. Her most recent book is Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, Hodder). She is editor of Language Learning.
Lucy Pickering is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Texas A&M-Commerce. Her research explores second language oral discourse, the pedagogical applications of computer-assisted speech analysis, and the ways in which learners develop competence in relation to prosody.
Manfred Pienemann is Professor of Linguistics at Paderborn University, Germany and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK. He was previously Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Australian National University. He founded the Language Acquisition Research Centre at Sydney University and was one of the founding members of PacSLRF. He has been involved in SLA research since the 1970s.
Charlene Polio is Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches in the TESOL and Second Language Studies programs. Her research interests include second language writing research methods and the relationship betwee writing and SLA. She is the editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.
Peter Robinson is Professor of Linguistics and SLA at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. He is editor of the book series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition, published by Routledge, and of the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition.
Richard Schmidt is Professor of Second Language Studies and Director of the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research focuses on psychological and social factors in SLA and issues concerning the teaching and learning of less commonly taught and difficult languages.
Norman Segalowitz is Professor of Psychology at Concordia University in Montréal, Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, and author of The Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency (Routledge, 2010). He studies automatic and attention-based processes in L2 fluency and proficiency and their implications for language instruction.
Peter Skehan is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has taught in the U.K. and Hong Kong. He has published and researched in second language acquisition, particularly foreign language aptitude and task-based performance, assessment, and instruction.
Roumyana Slabakova is Professor of Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Iowa. She investigates the acquisition of meaning in its relation to linguistic structure, focusing on temporal, aspectual and nominal meanings, as well as pragmatic implicatures. She is a founding editor of the journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Elaine Tarone is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Second Language Studies and Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; author of Literacy and Second Language Oracy, Exploring Learner Language, and author of publications on interlanguage variation, referential communication and language play.
Pavel Trofimovich is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on cognitive aspects of second language processing, second language phonology, sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition, and the teaching of second language pronunciation.
Michael Ullman is Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Neurology, Linguistics and Psychology at Georgetown University. His research examines the brain bases of first and second language, how language and memory are affected in various disorders, and how factors such as sex and genetic variability affect the neurocognition of language.
Ema Ushioda is Associate Professor in ELT and Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. Her main research interests are language learning motivation, learner autonomy, sociocultural theory and teacher development.
Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. His research has focused on morphological representation, input processing, language processing more generally, and instructed second language acquisition.
Ineke Vedder is Senior Researcher and Head of Education at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include instructed SLA, particularly Italian as a second language, the influence of task complexity and interaction on L2 performance, and the relationship between linguistic complexity and communicative adequacy in L2 writing.
Jill Watson is Lecturer in French at Cornell University in the Department of Romance Studies. She has done research in a range of foreign language and English as a second language settings with a focus on refugee adolescents who are becoming literate for the first time. She applies her work to language teacher development and school reform initiatives.
Jessica Williams is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published on variety of topics, including second language writing, lexical acquisition, and the effect of focus on form. Her books include Teaching Writing in Second and Foreign Language Classrooms and Theories in Second Language Acquisition (edited with Bill VanPatten).
John Williams is Reader in Applied Psycholinguistics at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms of second language learning, and second language lexical and syntactic processing.