Yoon Namkung earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics and ESL at Georgia State University. Her research interests include second-language acquisition, educational technology, task-based language teaching, and research synthesis. Yoon’s dissertation examines beginner-level English learners’ task engagement in virtual 3D platforms, such as the metaverse, exploring the mediating effects of emotions

Tran Thi Yen is a doctoral candidate at the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages Education, Thai Nguyen University of Education. Her dissertation investigates social-emotional learning in EFL teacher education in Vietnam, focusing on pre-service teachers’ perceptions,

Tingting Wang is a doctoral candidate in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Nanjing University, China. Her primary research interests include learner corpus research, language assessment, second-language speaking, and phraseology. Her dissertation research focuses on providing convergent validity evidence for a proposed set of phraseological competence indices tailored to L2

Singay is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics and Languages at the Open University (UK). His research interests include translanguaging, English-medium instruction, and multimodality. For his dissertation, Singay employs a case study approach to explore translanguaging practices in the EMI classrooms.

Renee Davy is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Studies – Language Acquisition at McGill University. In her dissertation, Renee uses critical action research to investigate how multiliterate Black immigrant youth based in Montreal, Quebec use writing to articulate their Black immigrant experiences in a community publishing group.

Muhamad Firdaus Mohd Noh is a doctoral candidate at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His research focuses on designing cognitive models for reading among secondary-school students, developing and validating cognitive diagnostic items, comparing psychometric frameworks, and producing teacher-usable diagnostic reports to inform targeted instruction.

Majid Farham is a senior Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics at York University in Toronto, Canada. His dissertation examines how adult ESL learners engage with written corrective feedback in high-stakes IELTS preparation contexts. His research focuses on learner engagement, feedback practices, and language assessment to inform pedagogy and policy in

Kelly Kendro is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. Her dissertation research investigates how terms like “bilingual” and “language attrition” are defined and operationalized, as well as how L1 and L2 lexical attrition affect receptive and productive abilities, to situate language attrition within the broader literature

Inyoung Na is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University, focusing on the use of technology in language testing. Her dissertation explores the potential of using large language model–driven spoken dialogue systems (SDS) to assess second-language learners’ interactional competence in paired discussions for university placement

I-Chun Vera Hsiao is a Ph.D. candidate in Multilingual Education at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include language assessment, TESOL, English-medium instruction, and teacher education. Her dissertation employs a mixed-methods design to examine test takers’ perceptions of the BESTEP, Taiwan’s first standardized EAP test, focusing on its fairness,