Ghinwa Alameen, PhD, teaches TESL and Arabic at Iowa State University. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of teaching connected speech on L2 perception and production. She has published articles on L2 material design, the integration of technology in language teaching, and the teaching of oral skills.

Amanda A. Baker, PhD, is Coordinator of the TESOL program at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Amanda’s research interests focus on the dynamic relationships that exist between second language (L2) teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices, especially in the areas of L2 pronunciation, speaking, and listening pedagogy.

Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published widely on international varieties of English, especially New Zealand English, and on morphology. Most recently, he is one of the authors of the Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013).

Ian Bekker, currently at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, specializes in the sociophonetics of South African English (SAfE), both in terms of contemporary developments as well as the reconstruction of its past genesis and development. His current main research focus is on the role of Johannesburg in the development of SAfE.

Charles Boberg teaches Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on variation and change in North American English, particularly Canadian English. His books include The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (2010) and, with William Labov and Sharon Ash, The Atlas of North American English (2006).

Adam Brown is the Director of Research at Auckland Institute of Studies, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in phonetics from the University of Edinburgh and has taught in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, as well as his native UK. He has written a dozen books and many articles on aspects of English language teaching, especially pronunciation. His latest publication is Pronunciation and Phonetics: A Practical Guide for English Language Teachers (2014).

Graeme Couper is a senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology with many years teaching experience in a wide range of countries and contexts, which he applies to his research into the teaching and learning of L2 pronunciation. His classroom-based research brings theory and practice together, finding a significant role for Cognitive Linguistics and other usage-based theories that allow for both the cognitive and social nature of language learning.

Anne Cutler is Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Professor at the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, and Processing Program leader of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the Dynamics of Language. Her research (summarized in her 2012 book Native Listening) focuses on how native-language phonological structure shapes the way we listen to speech.

Isabelle Darcy is Associate Professor of second language psycholinguistics in the Department of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (France) and from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany); her research focuses on the acquisition of second language phonology, pronunciation instruction, native/non-native speech perception, and word recognition.

Tracey M. Derwing is a Professor Emeritus in TESL (Department of Educational Psychology) at the University of Alberta and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include L2 pronunciation, native speaker reactions to accented speech, pragmatics, immigration, settlement, and teacher education. Together with Murray Munro, she conducted a 10-year longitudinal study of naturalistic pronunciation development in two groups of language learners.

David Deterding is a Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, where he teaches phonetics, grammar, research methods, translation, and forensic linguistics. His research focuses on acoustic phonetics, the pronunciation of Chinese and Malay, the description of Englishes in Southeast Asia, and misunderstandings in English as a lingua franca.

Wayne B. Dickerson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he taught courses in English phonology for MATESL candidates and ESL pronunciation. His research focuses on pedagogical applications of phonetics and phonology, pronunciation pedagogy, the value of orthography for learners, phonological variability, and pronunciation assessment.

Jennifer Ann Foote is a doctoral student at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She has taught English in Canada, Japan, the Czech Republic, and South Korea. She is interested in issues related to teaching pronunciation.

Rebecca Hincks is Associate Professor of English at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her doctoral work was done in language-learning applications for speech processing. Her research interests are oriented toward the development of training systems for public speaking in a lingua franca environment.

Seong-Yoon Kang, PhD, is an Associate Director of International Teacher and Government Programs and Curriculum Specialist at Bloomfield College, USA, where he is in charge of Total Immersion Courses for Korean English Teachers (TICKET) as well as intensive English programs. His research focuses on L2 learners’ individual differences in language acquisition and sociolinguistic influences on speech acts. Previously he designed, developed, and taught intensive English courses in South Korea.

Sara Kennedy is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on intelligibility of second language speech, effects of classroom instruction, particularly the teaching of oral skills, and the role of language experience in the development of speaking ability. She has extensive experience teaching English as a second and foreign language.

John M. Levis is Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Iowa State University. His research interests are English intonation, teacher education for pronunciation, and speech intelligibility. He is the editor of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation.

Ee-Ling Low PhD (Cambridge, UK) is an Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and concurrently Head of Strategic Planning and Academic Quality at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She has published widely in the areas of the phonetics of World Englishes and pronunciation for English as an International Language.

Christina Michaud is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University, where she teaches argument and research writing to native and non-native speakers of English. She has co-authored a supra-segmental pronunciation textbook and a book on lesson planning for TESOL teachers.

Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. She has published widely on the history of English, with special interests in the history of pronunciation, and in metalexicography and the social, cultural, and ideological issues that dictionary-making can reveal.

Murray J. Munro, a Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, has published extensively on accent and intelligibility, vowel and consonant acquisition, and the role of age and experience in phonetic learning. His collaborative work with Tracey Derwing focuses on the empirical foundations of pronunciation teaching.

John M. Murphy is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and ESL at Georgia State University (Atlanta).  His research and pedagogic interests span three areas: second language (L2) teacher reasoning (e.g., teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and instructional practices), approaches to L2 teaching, and integrated instruction of ESL listening, speaking, and pronunciation. John also teaches Yoga (twice weekly) in the lineage of Pranakriya Hatha Yoga.

Cecil L. Nelson is the author of Intelligibility in World Englishes (2011) and a co-editor with Braj and Yamuna Kachru of The Handbook of World Englishes (2006).  He was for some years the Review Editor of the journal World Englishes.

Pramod Pandey is Professor of Linguistics, Centre for Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His current areas of research interest include phonological interfaces, Indian English, writing systems, speech technology, and multilingualism. His publications include research articles on phonetics-phonology, second language varieties, writing systems, and a recent book, Sounds and Their Patterns in Indic Languages (two volumes).

Marnie Reed is an Associate Professor of Education and affiliated faculty in Applied Linguistics at Boston University. Her research focuses on second language phonology, particularly the role of auditory feedback in the perception and production of connected discourse, the role of metalinguistic feedback in the acquisition of morphosyntax, and metacognition in cross-linguistics awareness of pragmatic functions of English prosody.

Laura Sicola PhD is a lecturer in the MS-TESOL program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where she received her PhD in educational linguistics. Her primary research is in L2 pronunciation pedagogy and the use of pedagogic tasks. Her company, the Sicola Consulting Group, specializes in business-English communication programs for non-native speakers in professional and executive roles.

Jeremy Smith is Professor of English Philology at the University of Glasgow. His publications include: Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader (2012); Old English: A Linguistic Introduction (2009); Sound Change and the History of English (2007); An Introduction to Middle English (with Simon Horobin, 2002); Essentials of Early English (second edition, 2005); An Historical Study of English: Function, Form and Change (1996). He is currently working on the application of notions from historical pragmatics and book history to the study of medieval and early modern English and Scottish writing systems.

Beatrice Szczepek Reed is Senior Lecturer in Second Language Education at the University of York and her interest is in the phonetics and prosody of natural talk. She publishes in leading peer-reviewed journals and has written Analysing Conversation: An Introduction to Prosody (2010) and Prosodic Orientation in English Conversation (2006).

Ron I. Thomson is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University. His research interests include L2 oral fluency and pronunciation, and listener evaluation of L2 speech. He is also the creator of a free, evidence-based English pronunciation training website and research tool – www.englishaccentcoach.com.

Pavel Trofimovich is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on cognitive aspects of second language processing, second language phonology, sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition, and the teaching of second language pronunciation.

Clive Upton is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Leeds, and edits English Today. He co-edited A Handbook of Varieties of English, co-authored The Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English, and his transcription system for Received Pronunciation is followed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Bertus van Rooy is Professor of English language studies at the Vaal Triangle Campus of the North-West University, and a past president of the International Association for World Englishes. His current research is focused on the features of varieties of English, with particular attention to the development of new features.

Marilyn May Vihman is a developmental linguist best known for her book, Phonological Development (1996), which appeared in a radically revised second edition in 2014, with updated surveys of research on infant speech perception, segmentation, distributional learning, experimental studies of word learning, and other aspects of phonological development.

Robin Walker is a freelance teacher, trainer, and materials writer. A long-standing committee member of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group, and a former editor of Speak Out!, the PronSIG journal, he regularly gives talks, workshops, and webinars on pronunciation teaching. He is the author of Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca, a handbook for teachers.

Anne Wichmann is Emeritus Professor of Speech and Language at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Her research focuses on prosody, especially intonation, as it is used to structure discourse and in its role in the expression of pragmatic meaning, including attitude and emotion.

Beth Zielinski is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research interests are in the area of L2 English speaking, particularly the influence of different pronunciation features on effective communication. Her research and teaching has involved learners of English in many different settings in Australia.

Wafa Zoghbor is an applied linguist and she is currently an Assistant Professor at Zayed University, UAE. Her doctoral thesis in 2010 at the University of Leicester was on the implications of the pronunciation of ELF for Arab learners. In addition to teaching and research, her professional background involves quality assurance in higher education.