Dr. ZhaoHong Han is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Education in the TESOL Program of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests are in second language learnability and the interface of second language acquisition and second language teaching. Her articles have appeared in a variety of journals and books in applied linguistics and second language education. She is the author of Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition (2004, Multilingual Matters) and co-editor (with Terence Odlin) of Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition (2006, Multilingual Matters). She was the recipient of the 2003 International TESOL Heinle and Heinle Distinguished Research Award.

Managing Editor
Kirby Grabowski is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include language assessment, pragmatics, and language  
program evaluation. She is currently working on her dissertation  
which focuses on the assessment of pragmatic knowledge.

Editorial Assistant & Book Review Editor
Christine Jacknick a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics  
program at Teachers College, Columbia University.  Her academic  
interests include classroom discourse and sociocultural theory.  She  
is currently researching the application of Activity Theory to  
classroom discourse in preparation for her dissertation research.

Assistant Editor
Kung-Wan Philip Choong is a doctoral student in the TESOL program at  
Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests include  
task-based language teaching and learning and curriculum design. He  
is currently investigating the relationship between task complexity  
and learner production. He is also coordinating the Community  
Language Program at Teachers College.

Assistant Editor
Donna DelPrete is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics  
program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her primary  
research interest is in family discourse, particularly the discursive  
practices of mothers and daughters. Other research interests include  
gender and discourse and interactional sociolinguistics. She also  
teaches undergraduate Italian, and is currently an adjunct professor  
at William Paterson University in New Jersey.

Assistant Editor
Michael Perrone is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University. His primary research interest is in second language assessment, particularly L2 motivation and washback. He is currently working on his dissertation proposal. He is currently an adjunct professor in the TESOL department at Hunter College.

Assistant Editor
Drew S. Fagan is a doctoral student in the TESOL program at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests include teacher learning, sociocultural influences on language learning, and teacher/student interaction in the L2 classroom. He is currently a teacher educator in the Teachers College, Columbia University Summer TESOL Certificate Program and a teaching mentor for students in the M.A. TESOL Program.

Assistant Editor
Hiromi Noguchi is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests are in the areas of cross-linguistic influences in SLA. She is currently researching the influence of L1 based conceptions on the use of L2 spatial expressions in preparation for her dissertation research.