Huong Tran is a doctoral student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Thuongmai University, Vietnam, where she has taught for 15 years, as well as an English Language Tutor at ETC, a Wellington-based language school. Huong’s research examines the

Huiying Cai is a doctoral candidate in Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation explores a feature-based, explainable automated essay scoring system for second language (L2) integrated argumentative writing assessment in local contexts. Her research bridges computational linguistics and language assessment, aiming to enhance transparency, validity, and fairness

Gautam Bisht is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education and Social Policy and co-founder of the Sinchan Education and Rural Entrepreneurship Foundation, a nonprofit organization. His research focuses on designing learning environments that engage with different ways of knowing through language and literacy spaces. He is currently involved

Daniela Appelgren Muñoz is a Ph.D. candidate in education at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her dissertation investigates how language teacher educators understand interculturality when preparing future English teachers. The TIRF DDG enables her to map both dominant and marginalized perspectives on interculturality among teacher educators, contributing to the field

Chia-Hsin Yin is a Ph.D. candidate in Multilingual Language Education at The Ohio State University, Columbus. Her research focuses on bi/multilingualism, language assessment, and the role of AI and technology in education. Her doctoral project investigates how Microsoft Copilot, a generative AI tool, evaluates student writing compared to human teachers

Anita Kurniawati Hadiyanto is a doctoral candidate in Language Education at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her research focuses on how EFL teacher candidates (re)construct their reading identities through Extensive Reading (ER) programs. Through a multiple-case study in Indonesian teacher education, she explores how ER can nurture engaged readers and prepare

Yingzhao Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Second Language Studies program at Michigan State University. Her dissertation explores how hyperlinked glosses (i.e., short definitions of words) written in learners’ first or second languages influence vocabulary learning from reading. For her doctoral research, she tracks the amount of time learners