Will Baker is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests are Intercultural and Transcultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca, English Medium Education, Intercultural Education and Citizenship, and Decolonial ELT. Recent publications include ‘Intercultural and Transcultural Awareness in Language Teaching’, ‘Transcultural Communication through Global Englishes’, ‘English-medium instruction translanguaging practices in Asia’, and co-editor of the ‘Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca’. He is also co-editor of the book series ‘Developments in English as a Lingua Franca’ and ‘Elements in Intercultural Communication’. His most recent research project is ‘Decolonising English in higher education: Empowerment, access, and global citizenship in ELT’ funded by a British Council Widening Participation Research Grant.
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Elif Kemaloglu–Er is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University in Turkey. She has over 20 years teaching experience as an instructor of English for Academic Purposes at reputable Turkish universities. She received her BA in Translation and Interpreting at Bogazici University and completed her MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Bilkent University. She earned her PhD in English Language Education at Bogazici University, her dissertation was on English as a lingua franca (ELF)-aware pre-service teacher education. She has been an active participant in multifaceted ELF- and Global Englishes-related projects and has given ELF-related and Global Englishes-related seminars and workshops worldwide. Her research interests include English language teaching, English language teacher education, EMI, ELF, particularly ELF-aware pedagogy and ELF-aware teacher education, as well as Global Englishes.
Inmaculada Pineda is Assistant Professor at the University of Málaga (Spain). Applying ELF research implications into Teacher Training and ELT, she has published on multimedia resources in Teacher Education from an ELF perspective; pre-service teachers’ metalinguistic attitudes; ELF Pedagogy and CLIL/EMI training programs. Her current research interests focus on ELF Pedagogy and teacher training, VELF (Virtual English as a lingua franca), and Transmodality and Translanguaging.
Barbara Seidlhofer, Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna, has published widely on the conceptualization, description, theoretical implications of English as a lingua franca, and on the nature of transcultural communication more generally. She founded the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and is founding and honorary editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.
Wenli Tsou is a Full Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literature, and currently Director of the Foreign Language Center at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She received her PhD in Foreign and Second Language Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S. She is a key promoter in Taiwan for bilingual education, ESP and EMI. Commissioned by the Taiwan MOE, she has set up in-service professional development programs for bilingual teachers from K-12 as well as ESP and EMI in higher education. Her most current research has focused on the links between disciplinary literacy and translanguaging of bilingual education and EMI. She is particularly interested in how these emerging theories and practices can be glocalized in Taiwan.
Henry Widdowson, Professor Emeritus, University of London, Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna has written extensively on the applied linguistics of language education, latterly with particular reference to the conceptualization and educational significance of English as a lingua franca. His most recent book is On the Subject of English published by de Gruyter in 2020.
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