HIROKO AKIBA Assistant Professor and International Education Advisor at the School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Japan MARTIN CORTAZZI Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK TRICIA COVERDALE-JONES Principal Lecturer in the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK JOSEPH FALOUT Assistant Professor at Nihon University, College of Science and Technology, Japan SUSAN GIBBS Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Portsmouth, UK DAISUKE HIROUCHI Assistant Professor at the Liberal and General Education Center, Utsunomiya University, Japan RICHARD HITCHCOCK Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK LIXIAN JIN 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 MARKUS LUX Head of Section Education at Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart, Germany JESILIN MANJULA Lecturer at Sunway University, Malaysia JOHN NAYSMITH Head of the School of Languages & Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK ZHAOYING REN Associate Professor in teaching English as a foreign language at Kunming University of Science and Technology, China GORDON SLETHAUG teaches in English Studies and Speech Communications at the University of Waterloo, Canada JIRO TAKAI Professor of Social Psychology at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, Japan TIAN TAN International Admissions Specialist in the University of Pittsburgh Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, USA ANJA TIMM Senior Research Fellow in Education and Deputy Director of the Medical Education Development Unit at the University of Southampton, UK JOHN C. WEIDMAN Professor of Higher Education at the University of Pittsburgh, USA MARK WYATT Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UL AKIYOSHI YONEZAWA Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan LIN ZHENG Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK
