Henrik Kaatari

Henrik Kaatari is Senior Lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Gävle. He specializes in corpus linguistics with a focus on grammaticalization, grammatical variation, linguistic complexity, and the intersection between formality and linguistic complexity. His publications appear in journals such as English Language and Linguistics, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Second Language Writing and International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.

Ying Wang

Ying Wang is Associate Professor in English linguistics at Karlstad University. She received her PhD in English linguistics from Uppsala University in December 2013. Her main research interests are in English for academic purposes, applied corpus linguistics, and second language writing. Her current research focuses on rhetorical structure and evaluative resources in different disciplinary genres as well as secondary school students’ engagement with extramural English and its impact on L2 writing development.

Tove Larsson

Tove Larsson is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University in the US. She is also affiliated with University of Louvain (Belgium). She specializes in corpus linguistics, register variation, and L2 writing. She also has a keen interest in research methodology and research ethics. Her work appears in journals such as Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Register Studies, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 

Pia Sundqvist

Pia Sundqvist is Professor of English Education (Didactics) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests are in the field of applied linguistics and include informal language learning, in particular the relation between extramural English and gaming, English language teaching, and the assessment of L2 oral proficiency. Her work appears in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, Language Learning and Technology, ReCALL, and TESOL Quarterly. She is the author of Extramural English in Teaching and Learning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with Sylvén). Sundqvist is the current president of the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics (ASLA). 

Taehyeong Kim

Taehyeong Kim is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. He received his M.A. degree in English Language Education from Seoul National University, and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Yonsei University, Korea. His research interests include corpus linguistics in relation to second language acquisition, linguistic complexity, and register variation.