Professor Christopher CANDLIN
Macquarie University

Chris Candlin is Senior Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney where he established and directed the National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research and the Centre for Language in Social Life. He has held chair professorships in applied linguistics at Lancaster, UK; The City University of Hong Kong; The UK Open University, and currently holds honorary professorships at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff in the UK, and at Beijing Foreign Studies University. From 1996 to 2002 he was president of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has published very widely in applied linguistics and ELT internationally, he sits on the editorial boards of several major journals in the field, and has been involved in the general editing of a number of book series with international publishers. He has acted as an applied linguistics and ELT consultant in educational institutions in more than 30 countries worldwide and has supervised over 60 doctorate students in a range of applied linguistics fields, and from many countries. His chief research interests are in discourse analysis and pragmatics in a range of communication contexts, both in educational settings and those in public institutions and professions. What he chiefly enjoys is developing practitioner research and publication across cultures and systems.

Professor Ulla CONNOR
Indiana University

Ulla M. Connor is the Chancellor's Professor of English, Barbara E. and Karl R. Zimmer Chair in Intercultural Communication, and Director of the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication. Dr. Connor has held positions at Georgetown University, Purdue University, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), University of Florida, University of Wisconsin, and George Mason University. She has also held guest and visiting professor positions in linguistics and applied linguistics with Temple University Japan, Lund University in Sweden, and Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She is an elected member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. Dr. Connor has authored and co-authored ten books and over 100 articles and book chapters, including Contrastive Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and Intercultural Rhetoric in the Writing Classroom (University of Michigan Press, 2011). In her research and writing and communication, Dr. Connor combines theories and methods from linguistics and rhetoric. Results of her intercultural rhetoric research have been applied in the teaching of ESL and EFL students, intercultural business communication, and, most recently, the language of healthcare among U.S. immigrant populations.

Professor William GRABE
Northern Arizona University

William Grabe is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches in the MA-TESL and PhD in Applied Linguistics programs. He is interested in reading, writing, literacy, written discourse analysis, and content based L2 instruction. He has lectured and given teaching training workshops in over 30 countries around the world. His most recent books are Teaching and Researching Reading (2nd ed.) (with F. Stoller; Longman, 2011) and Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has also co-authored Theory and Practice of Writing (with R.B. Kaplan; Longman, 1996) and co-edited Directions in Applied Linguistics (Multilingual Matters, 2005). He served as editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 1990-2000). He is a past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2001-2002). He received the 2005 Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics.

Professor Ann JOHNS
San Diego State University

Ann M. Johns is Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Writing Studies at San Diego State University (CA/USA). At that university she continues to teach advanced (graduate) academic literacies to international students, many of whom are Chinese-speaking, and more basic academic literacies to bilingual first-year students. Her five books, five major curricula, and more than 75 published articles and book chapters focus on English for Academic Purposes, genre pedagogies, and curricula. She has been awarded four Fulbright grants, consulted in 28 countries. Ann is also still working closely with secondary literacy teachers in her region.