Dildora Khakimova is a Ph.D. candidate in Teaching and Teacher Education at George Mason University. Her research interests include intercultural competence, internationalization of education, online learning, and multimodal translanguaging. Her research focuses on examining EFL teachers’ attitudes and practices related to and understanding of translanguaging in multilingual contexts. Further information
Gavin O’Neill is an Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. He is pursuing his PhD in Education at Temple University, Japan Campus. In his dissertation, Gavin explores the barriers that professionals and fledgling academics from developing countries face when trying to gain access to and participate in the
Dr. Inoussa Malgoubri received his doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His dissertation examines culturally sustaining pedagogy and arts-based learning in English language education for multilingual learners in Burkina Faso. His research seeks to equip teachers with innovative approaches that foster engagement and inclusivity in postcolonial, multilingual settings, promoting
Jieun Kim holds a PhD in Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her doctoral work focused on language testing. She taught English in Korea and received her MA from Seoul National University. Her dissertation examines the effects of different note-taking modes (handwriting versus typing) on L2
John Wayne N. dela Cruz is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies – Language Acquisition at McGill University. For his dissertation, John investigates the plurilingual identities and practices of fellow Filipino immigrants in the French-speaking city of Montréal in Canada. His research aims to legitimize and center the plurilingual voices
Lana F. Zeaiter is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies at McGill University, Canada. With over a decade of experience teaching English and French as additional and foreign languages, her Ph.D. research employs innovative methodologies to explore the training of language teacher candidates in technology-mediated plurilingualism. You can find her
Leigh Anne Benzaia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics Department at the University of Utah, specializing in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and forensic linguistics. Her research takes a mixed-methods approach to explore how formerly incarcerated and gang-affiliated L2 English speakers, particularly L1 Spanish speakers, comprehend U.S. constitutional rights, including
Liberato Silva dos Santos is a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics and technology at Iowa State University. His dissertation investigates the scoring decision processes of raters judging the pronunciation of L2 English speakers in a paired discussion task. His work has been presented in conferences such as LTRC, LARC, TSLL,
Rickey Larkin is a PhD candidate in Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In his dissertation, Rickey takes an autoethnographic approach in examining language policy and planning at Benguet State University (BSU), located in the Cordilleras, Philippines. Specifically, he positions his work to contribute to BSU’s explicit
Shishi Zhang, is a Ph.D. Candidate at University College London. Her Ph.D. project is on assessment of second language pragmatic competence in the spoken medium for intercultural communication in the academic domain. The project specifically targets U.K. pre-sessional students and draws on the Socio-Cognitive Framework for test development and validation.
Xiaoxiao Kong is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include language assessments for professional purposes and test validation. Her Ph.D. project investigates the language demands of early childhood and school teachers in Australia, and the appropriacy of currently
