Notes on Contributors

John Archibald (PhD, Toronto, Canada) has been Professor of Linguistics at the University of Victoria (Canada) since 2010, following 19 years at the University of Calgary (Canada). He specializes in second language phonology, and is author or editor of seven books and approximately 30 journal articles and book chapters.

Fatih Bayram is a researcher at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research primarily focuses on heritage language bilinguals. Bayram investigates the acquisition process of home and societal language in childhood in immigrant contexts, outcomes of language development in (young) adulthood, and on-line processing of the grammatical system during language production and comprehension.

Alessandro G. Benati is Head of School of Languages and Area Studies and Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Portsmouth (UK). He is internationally known for his research in second language learning and teaching, with special emphases on processing instruction. He has a strong publications record with over 15 established monographs and articles in international journals. He has coordinated national and international research projects and he is honorary visiting Professor at York St. John University (UK).

Lara Bryfonski is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Georgetown University. Her doctoral research focuses primarily on interaction and corrective feedback in second language acquisition as well as task-based language teaching and learning. Lara is also a licensed English as a second language (ESL) teacher and has taught ESL in a variety of contexts in the United States and abroad.

Gavin Bui is Associate Professor at the English Department of Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong. His research interests lie in task-based language teaching, development of second language (L2) fluency and lexis, and L2 motivation. His recent publications appeared in Language Teaching Research (Sage, 2016) and TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (Wiley, 2017).

Heidi Byrnes is George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German Emerita at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on adult second language literacy acquisition, particularly at the advanced level, with articles, edited and co-edited books, and special journal issues addressing the development of advanced literacy, particularly in writing. She is a past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and is the recipient of numerous professional association awards. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Modern Language Journal.

Marcus Callies received a PhD in English linguistics from the University of Marburg (Germany). Since 2014 he has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bremen (Germany). His main research interests are learner corpus research with a focus on lexicogrammatical variation, discourse-functional and pragmatic aspects of advanced learner varieties, and English for academic purposes. He is serving as editor of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research and vice-president of the Learner Corpus Association.

Fred R. Eckman holds the rank of University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Eckman's major research interest is in second language (L2) acquisition, and has centered mainly on L2 phonology, with a secondary focus on L2 syntax, and L2 acquisition theory. His writings have appeared in a number of anthologies and professional handbooks, as well in several journals, including Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, Second Language Research, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Gregg Fields is a doctoral student in Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies at Arizona State University-Tempe. His research interests include second language writing, language identity, metacognition, writing pedagogies, and writing program administration.

Susan M. Gass is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She has published more than 30 books and more than 150 articles in the field of second language acquisition, with works translated into Russian, Korean, and Chinese. She is the co-author (with Alison Mackey) of Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course of Second Language Research: Methodology and Design. She is the winner of local, national, and international awards. She has served as the president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée and is currently co-editor of Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Kimberly L. Geeslin is Professor at Indiana University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research focuses on second language Spanish and the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. She is co-author (with Avizia Lim Yong) of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Routledge, 2014) and the editor of The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). She has published research articles in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Hispania, Spanish in Context, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Linguistics, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

Burcu Gokgoz-Kurt (PhD, University of South Carolina, 2016) is currently a faculty member at Dumlupınar University (Turkey). Her research focuses on the acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, pronunciation instruction, L2 speech perception, and cognitive aspects of L2 processing. Her doctoral work investigated the effects of training in learning word-boundary palatalization as a connected speech phenomenon in L2 English in relation to attention control. She has extensive experience teaching English as a foreign language and English as a second language in the United States and Turkey.

Gisela Granena is an Assistant Professor in the School of Languages of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain). She has published research on the role of cognitive aptitudes in both instructed and naturalistic contexts; aptitude-treatment interactions; task-based language teaching; measures of implicit and explicit language knowledge; and the effects of early and late bilingualism on long-term second language achievement. Recent publications include Sensitive Periods, Language Aptitude, and Ultimate L2 Attainment (John Benjamins, 2013) and Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition (John Benjamins, 2016).

Aarnes Gudmestad is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research focuses on the intersection between second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Current projects address issues pertaining to morphosyntactic structures in native and second language Spanish and French. She has published articles in journals such as Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, and Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

D. Eric Holt (PhD, Georgetown University, 1997) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Scholarly work treats phonological theory, language variation and change, Hispanic sociolinguistics, and language acquisition, particularly of connected speech phenomena in Spanish by English-speaking learners.

Tania Ionin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main areas of research are second language acquisition of semantics, with a focus on the nominal domain (definiteness, specificity, genericity, and the mass/count distinction), and experimental semantic investigations of quantifier scope and the interpretation of indefinites in Russian and English.

Sihui Echo Ke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. Her recent research has focused on the contributions of morphological awareness to adult and child second language reading.

Keiko Koda is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include second language reading, biliteracy development, and foreign language instruction and assessment.

Tanja Kupisch is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz and Professor II in the Language Acquisition, Variation and Attrition (LAVA) research group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research focuses on first, second, and third language acquisition, early bilingualism, and bilectal language acquisition. She has worked on various aspects of DP syntax, such as article omission, genericity, nominal gender, and adjective placement, as well as on pronunciation.

Terje Lohndal is Professor of English Linguistics at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Adjunct Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He also co-directs the AcqVA research group, which focuses on language acquisition, variation, and attrition. Lohndal attempts to identify the basic building blocks of language based on evidence from acquisition, linguistic variation, and attrition, focusing in particular on syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics.

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