Researching Cultures of Learning

JAN ABD-KADIR Lecturer in Language Education in the Department of Education at the University of York, UK ZAHRA ALIMORAD Ph.D. candidate of TEFL at Shiraz University, Iran NAHLA NOLA BACHA Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chairperson of the Department of Humanities at the Lebanese American University, Lebanon RIMA BAHOUS Associate Professor of Education and the Director of the Program and Learning Assessment at the Lebanese American University, Lebanon DAT BAO Lecturer in TESOL in Monash University, Australia ERICH BERENDT taught in Japan at the University of Chiba (1973-1993) and Seisen University (1993-2008) and was honoured by Seisen University as 'Professor emeritus' in 2008. He worked as a Professor at the Graduate School of English, Assumption University, Bangkok (2008-12) MARTIN CORTAZZI Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK SAMI DADI Assistant Professor in TESOL and Applied Linguistics in the College of Applied Sciences, Nizwa, Oman JOSEPH FALOUT Assistant Professor at Nihon University, College of Science and Technology, Japan TETSUYA FUKUDA English instructor at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan FRANK HARDMAN Chair Professor of International Development and Education in the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York, UK LE THI THU HUYEN Senior Lecturer at Danang University, Vietnam and is also a PhD student at the faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia LIXIAN JIN Chair Professor of Linguistics and Intercultural Learning and the Director of the Centre for Research in Intercultural Communication and Learning (CIRCL) at De Montfort University, UK SHIVA KAIVANPANAH Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Iran JIN LI Associate Professor of Education and Human Development at Brown University, U.S.A GULNISSA MAKHANOVA Senior Lecturer in English at Kazakh-British Technical University, Kazakhstan SHAKILA ABDUL MANAN Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains, Malaysia MAARET MATTSSON Kindergarten 1 Teacher and the Leader of the Physical Motor Program in Australian International School of Bangkok (AISB), Thailand TIM MURPHEY Researcher at Kanda University of International Studies, Japan MAJID NEMATI Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran, Iran PHAN LE HA Senior Lecturer in Culture and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education Monash University, Australia HAJAR ABDUL RAHIM Associate Professor in the English Language Studies department at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia JANETTE RYAN Research Associate in the Contemporary China Studies Centre at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Academic Practice and Internationalisation at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK RAHMAN SAHRAGARD Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in Shiraz University, Iran MARIA TROVELA currently working at the Center for Developing Kids, a pediatric therapy clinic, in Pasadena, California, and attending the Occupational Therapy Graduate Program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, USA WANG JING currently undertaking a PhD in the University of Hong Kong JUNJU WANG Professor of Applied Linguistics and Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Shandong University, China XIE QUN Professor of English and the Dean of College of Foreign Languages in Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China YUAN YUAN Associate Professor of School of Foreign Languages, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China.