Notes on Contributors

Adnan Ajsic is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Northern Arizona University. His research interests include language ideology, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, English as a global lingua franca, and language policy in post-colonial and post-communist societies. His writing has appeared in Language Policy, English for Specific Purposes, and the Journal of Language and Politics. Adnan is currently working on his dissertation which investigates language ideologies and ethnonational identities in the Balkans.

Lava D. Awasthi holds a PhD from the Danish University of Education, Copenhagen. He is director general of the Department of Education in Nepal. He is also a visiting faculty member at Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University of Nepal, where he teaches advanced research methodologies and diversity education as well as language planning. His areas of interest include social transformation, educational reform, multilingual education, language and ethnicity, oriental cosmologies, and educational research.

Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics and English at Penn State University. He teaches language socialization, World Englishes, and teacher development in writing. His latest publication is Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (2013). He is a former editor of TESOL Quarterly and president of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.

Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan holds a PhD from Northern Arizona University and is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Research interests include investigating the roles of language ideologies in language policy processes, exploring models of content-based instruction, and applying corpus-based linguistics. Her publications have appeared in Language Policy, Language Awareness, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, Corpora, and in edited volumes.

Rebecca Freeman Field is the director of the Language Education Division of Caslon Publishing. She conducts action-oriented research in bilingual schools and communities and has published two books, Bilingual Education and Social Change and Building on Community Bilingualism. She focuses on developing leadership on ELL issues and she co-edited English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators. She also works with educators in the areas of language policy and planning, language education program development and implementation, academic language and literacy development, and assessment and accountability in language education programs.

François Grin has taught in Montreal, Seattle, and Lugano, and served as deputy director of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg (Germany). He is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva. His work in language economics and language policy is reflected in numerous publications. He has carried out several large-scale research projects for scientific agencies, national governments, and international organizations. He is the coordinator of the MIME Project ("Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe," 2014-2018) financed by the European Commission.

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor and Chair of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. Her research interests include language policy, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, ethnography, biliteracy, Indigenous language revitalization, multilingualism, and multilingual education. A widely published author and editor, her recent volumes include Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents (2008) and Sociolinguistics and Language Education (with S. McKay, 2010).

Ari Huhta is Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä. He specializes in diagnostic testing of second/foreign language proficiency. His interests also include self-assessment, feedback, assessment procedures for SLA research, and the development of L2 vocabulary.

Francis M. Hult is Associate Professor at the Lund University Centre for Languages and Literature. He is the co-editor (with Kendall A. King) of Educational Linguistics in Practice (2011), editor of Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics (2010), and co-editor (with Bernard Spolsky) of The Handbook of Educational Linguistics (2008). Working at the transdisciplinary crossroads of sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and education, he investigates the management of linguistic diversity in policy and practice.

David Cassels Johnson is Assistant Professor of Language Education at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on the interaction between language policies and educational opportunity for minority language users. Numerous articles appear in journals such as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, and Language Policy. He is the author of Language Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Helen Kelly-Holmes is Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests focus on the interrelationships between media, markets, and languages. Recent publications include Multilingualism and the Periphery (edited with Sari Pietikäinen, 2013) and Thematising Multilingualism in the Media (edited with Tomasso Milani, 2013).

Kendall A. King (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Second Languages and Cultures Education at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches and researches in the areas of applied linguistics and language policy. Recent journal research publications appear in Modern Language Journal, Applied Linguistics and Journal of Language, Identity and Education. She is an editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of language and education, Volume 10: Research Methods in Language and Education.

Dimitry Kochenov is Professor of EU Constitutional Law, University of Groningen. His research focuses on EU citizenship and the principles of law. Recent publications include Europe's Justice Deficit? (edited with G. de Búrca and A. Williams, 2014) and European Union's Shaping of the International Legal Order (edited with F. Amtenbrink, 2013).

Angel M.Y. Lin is a full Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She is well respected for her interdisciplinary research in classroom discourse analysis, bilingual education, language policy in postcolonial contexts, and critical cultural studies. She has published over 90 research articles and co/authored/edited six research books.

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne. He authored Australia's official National Policy of Languages, in 1987 and has served as language policy advisor in many countries, currently serving as research director, Peacebuilding and Language for UNICEF in Southeast Asia. He has written many publications. In press are Aldo and the Meridian Line, a novel, and a volume on language and identity in post-revolutionary Tunisia (with Fethi Hilal).

Marilyn Martin-Jones is Emeritus Professor and former director of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham, UK. Over the last 35 years, her research has focused on multilingual discourse practices and literacies, in classrooms and in community contexts, and on the ways in which such discourse practices and literacies are bound up with local and global relations of power. She is currently editor of the Routledge series, Critical Studies in Multilingualism.

Stephen May is Professor of Education in Te Puna Wananga (School of Maori Education) in the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written widely on language rights, language policy, and language education,. To date, he has published 15 books and over 90 academic articles and book chapters in these areas. These include his award-winning Language and Minority Rights (second edition, 2012) and his most recent edited collection, The Multilingual Turn (2014). He is general editor of the third edition of the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (2016), a founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Ethnicities, and associate editor of Language Policy. His homepage is http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/stephen-may.

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research, teaching, and outreach focus on Indigenous education, language planning and policy, youth language, and ethnographic studies of education. Her recent books include Language Planning and Policy in Native America: History, Theory, Praxis (2013), and Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism: Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds (with L.T. Wyman and S.E. Nicholas, 2014).

Mary McGroarty is Professor in the Applied Linguistics Program in the English Department at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests lie in language policy, planning, and pedagogy, with articles in Language...