Plenary Speakers

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor Emeritus (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University.  His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation (in English and cross-linguistic; synchronic and diachronic).  He has published over 260 research articles on a wide range of topics in linguistics and applied linguistics.  He has also published 25 books and monographs, including the corpus-based Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999/2021).  Biber is known for the development of ‘Multi-Dimensional Analysis’ (a research approach for the study of register variation), described in earlier books published by Cambridge University Press (e.g., 1988, 1995, 2009/2019, 2018).  More recently, he co-authored a textbook on Register, Genre, and Style [2nd edition] (Cambridge, 2019), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (2015), and co-authored research monographs on grammatical complexity in written academic English (Cambridge, 2016; Routledge, 2022), register variation on the web (Cambridge, 2018), and principles of corpus design and evaluation (Cambridge, 2022).

Masatoshi Sato (PhD: McGill University) is a Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. His overarching research goal is to produce theoretical and applied research that contributes to facilitating a dialogue between practitioners and researchers. His research interests include instructed second language acquisition, peer interaction, metacognition, corrective feedback, learner psychology, teacher psychology, race and accents, and the research-practice relationship. In addition to his publications in international journals, he has co-edited volumes from John Benjamins (2016: Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning), Routledge (2017: The Routledge Handbook of ISLA; 2019: Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy), Language Teaching Research (2021: Learner Psychology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition), and The Modern Language Journal (2022: The Research-Practice Relationship). He is the recipient of the 2014 ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award. He is the Co-Director of TESOLgraphics as well as MonISLA. He is currently the Editor of Language Awareness and an executive member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Taylor & Francis.