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Azirah Hashim is Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She has been Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute; Director of the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism; Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics and Dean of the Humanities Research Cluster at the university. Her research interests include Language Contact in Southeast Asia, Language and Law and Higher Education in ASEAN. Recent publications include English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Transformation of Language Habitats, Routledge, 2021 (co-authored with Gerhard Leitner) and Asia and Europe in the 21st Century: New Anxieties, New Opportunities, Routledge, 2021 (co-edited with Rahul Mishra and Anthony Milner). She is on the Editorial and Advisory Board of several journals such as English Today, World Englishes and Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics. She is currently President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) and Humboldt Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. She also sits on the executive committee of the Asia Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association and serves as Higher Education expert in the EU Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region programme.

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شكري المبخوت: أستاذ التعليم العالي بجامعة زايد التي يشغل فيها كرسيّ اللغة العربيّة بقسم العربيّة من كلّيّة التربية. متخرّج من دار المعلّمين العليا ( سنة 1986) وحاصل على الكفاءة في البحث (سنة 1987) والتبريز في اللغة والآداب العربيّة (سنة 1988) ثمّ على دكتورا الدولة في اللغة والآداب العربيّة (سنة 2001) من جامعة منّوبة بتونس (اختصاص اللسانيّات). التحق بجامعة زايد في بداية السنة الجامعيّة 2019 – 2020. وقد سبق له أن تقلّد مهمّة عميد كلّيّة الآداب والفنون والإنسانيّات بجامعة منّوبة (من 2004 إلى 2011) ثمّ مهمّة رئاسة جامعة منّوبة (من 2011 إلى 2017). نشر مقالات علميّة وكتبا عديدة في اللسانيّات التداوليّة والبلاغة والنقد الأدبيّ والترجمة. وحصل على جائزة الملك فيصل في اللغة والأدب العربيّ لدورة سنة 2018 عن كتبه الثلاثة في نقد السيرةالذاتيّة العربيّة. وله إسهامات إبداعيّة في السرد والرواية فحصل على الجائزة العالميّة للرواية العربيّة (المعروفة إعلاميّا بالبوكر) لدورة سنة 2015 عن روايته الأولى "الطلياني" وعلى جائزة عبد الحميد شومان في أدب الطفل لدورة 2018 عن قصّته "مدينة الناجحين".

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Dr Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia. He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has given more than 100 plenary presentations at international ELT conferences and published extensively in the area of second language education. His publications include Language Teaching Methodology: An anthology of current practice (2002, Cambridge University Press), Student-centred cooperative learning (2019, Springer International), and a recently published book chapter Growing Our Research Impact (2020, Springer International). He maintains a large language teacher professional development forum called Teacher Voices:

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Martin Dewey is Reader in Applied Linguistics at King’s College London. His research focuses on the globalization of English, and the role of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). His research primarily entails exploring the relevance of ELF in language teacher education and the impact this has on how we conceptualize language and language knowledge in English language teaching. His research interests also include a focus on multilingualism, language attitudes/ideologies and and critical pedagogy. He has presented and published widely on his research work. He is co-author, together with Alessia Cogo, of Analyzing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus Driven Investigation (Continuum 2012) and co-editor, together with Jennifer Jenkins and Will Baker, of Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (Routledge 2018). He is editor in chief of Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.

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Stephen Krashen is Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California. He is active in language acquisition, bilingual education, literacy and heritage language development. He received a PhD. in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. He has published over 560 professional papers and books contributing to the fields of second-language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He is known for introducing various hypotheses related to second-language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis. Most recently, Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during second-language acquisition, which he says "is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second. Many of his books and papers are available for free download at www.sdkrashen.com.