Daphnée Simard is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research interests include the role of individual cognitive and affective variables, as well as reflection about language in second language acquisition among various populations (children and adults).

Bianca M. Sandu is an assistant professor of English Philology at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain. Her research interests include language learning motivation and social action, lexical availability and semantic networks, and bilingual education.

Véronique Fortier is a professor in the Department of language education at the Université du Québec à Montréal. The focus of her research is on the teaching of French as a second language to adult learners who are developing their literacy skills

Sal Consoli is an assistant professor in Language Education and Director of Research Methods in Education at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include the psychology of language education and internationalisation of education.

Lara Bryfonski is an applied linguist and associate professor at Georgetown University where she researches second language acquisition and language teaching with a special focus on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and teacher education.