TY - JOUR AB - Jason Litzenberg has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and ESL from Georgia State University. He has over 20 years of experience teaching English in Ecuador, Germany, the U.A.E, and the U.S. His interests are phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, language ideologies, ELF, program administration, and, more recently, decolonial scholarship. Jason is currently an Associate Teaching Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Intensive English Communication Program at The Pennsylvania State University. Laura Jenkins is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University (UK). Laura applies conversation analysis to video-recordings of real-life medical encounters, exploring how people describe their experiences, such as seizures, allergic reactions, or chronic pain. Her work also examines how practitioners start sensitive conversations surrounding death, dying and risk. She uses her findings to develop communication training resources. Her recent publications appear in Social Science and Medicine, Epilepsy and Behavior, Sociology of Health and Illness, and Research on Language and Social Interaction. Ruth Parry is a Professor of Human Communication and Interaction in the School ofSocial Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University (UK). Ruth conducts and systematically reviews conversation analyses. Her work explores fundamental human concerns such as dignity, embodiment and human agency. She also develops healthcare communication training resources based on conversation analytic evidenceand understandings. Her recent research articles have been published in Research on Language and Social Interaction, Patient Education and Counseling, BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, PLoS ONE, and an edited volume on Distributed Agency. Brockington Building Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU. Marco Pino is a Lecturer in Communication and Social Interaction in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University (UK). Marco uses conversation analysis to study interpersonal communication in health and social care. His research contributes to understandings of sensitive communicative activities and tasks, such as raising delicate topics and influencing clients’ behaviours and perspectives. His recent research articles have been published in Social Psychology Quarterly, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Discourse Studies, Patient Education and Counseling, PLoS ONE, and Palliative Medicine. Mario Brdar is Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek. His main areas of research interests include cognitive linguistics, morphosyntax, and lexical semantics. His publications mostly deal with contrastive and cognitive-functional approach to grammatical constructions and basic cognitive processes such as metonymy and metaphor. Address for correspondence: Mario Brdar, Department of English Language and Literature, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek. Yaochen Deng is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Dalian University of Foreign Languages. His research interests include corpus linguistics and quantitative linguistics. He has published articles in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Glottotheory, and Corpus Linguistics Research. Address for correspondence: Yaochen Deng, School of English Studies, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, 6 West Section of South Lvshun Road, Dalian 116044, China P.R. Lei Lei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include academic English, corpus linguistics, and quantitative linguistics. He has published extensively in journals such as Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Address for Correspondence: Lei Lei, School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430074, China P.R. Dilin Liu is Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at the University of Alabama. His research focuses on the description and teaching of English grammar and vocabulary using cognitive- and corpus-linguistic approaches. He has published extensively and his articles have appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, Modern Language Journal, and TESOL Quarterly. Address for correspondence: Dilin Liu, Department of English, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. Ali Derakhshan is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at English Language and Literature Department, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran. He received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU), Tehran, Iran. He has published many papers in national and international journals. His research interests are Interlanguage Pragmatics Development and Assessment and Teacher Education. Bethany Martens is an instructor and PhD student of Teaching and Learning: Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Education at The Ohio State University. She has an MA in TESOL Education from MidAmerica Nazarene University and has taught English as a Second Language in South Korea and China for over 7 years. Her current research interests include CALL, Assessment, and CBI in TESOL education. Zhuo Chen is a PhD candidate in English language teaching at South China Normal University, China and a former EFL teacher in Information Engineering University, China. Her research interests include second language vocabulary acquisition and processing, psycholinguistics, and second language teaching and learning. Address for correspondence: Zhuo Chen, South China Normal University, China. Ping Zhang is a Professor of English at South China Normal University, China. Her research interests include (instructed) second language acquisition, second language vocabulary acquisition and processing, psycholinguistics, and corpus linguistics. Address for correspondence: Ping Zhang, South China Normal University, China. © Oxford University Press 2021 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) TI - Notes on Contributors JF - Applied Linguistics DO - 10.1093/applin/amab073 DA - 2021-11-14 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/notes-on-contributors-ALH0trdJg1 SP - i EP - iii VL - 42 IS - 5 DP - DeepDyve ER -