Caroline Payant is an Associate Professor and current director of the Department de didactique des langues à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, with a specialty in additional language learning and teaching. Her research focuses on how plurilingual learners mobilize their resources to create meaning in various communicative contexts. Her current project examines language discrimination with linguistic minorities.

Maria-Lourdes Lira-Gonzales is an associate professor and chair of the Teaching English as a Second Language Program at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). She is also associate researcher at the Centre de recherche sur la formation et la profession enseignante (CRIFPE) and Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Language Assessment (CALA). Her research interests are in the area of formative assessment with a focus on written corrective feedback.

Angelica Galante is an Assistant Professor in Language Education and Plurilingualism in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Her research interests include mixed methods research, plurilingual and pluricultural competence, language pedagogy in multilingual settings, teacher education, drama in language learning, and cognition and emotion. For more information, visit her academic page and her research lab.

Sunny Man Chu Lau, Full Professor in the School of Education at Bishop’s University, Québec, is Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning. She specialises in critical literacies, second language and plurilingual education, teaching English as a second language, participative-based research methodologies, and related teacher education. Please visit Sunny’s website for more information on her research and publications.

Lana F. Zeaiter is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at McGill University. Her research interests include plurilingualism, language pedagogies, teacher education, and educational technology. For more information, please visit Lana’s website.

Ava Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. Her research interests are situated at the intersections of sociolinguistics, social semiotics, and applied linguistics. In her current projects, she is exploring the use of visual and aural modes in researching people’s lived experiences of language with particular attention to memory, emotion, embodiment, and language ideology. For more information, please visit Ava’s website.

Diane Querrien is Associate Professor in the Département d’études françaises at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Her research focuses on the training of teachers of French as a second or foreign language, on the didactics of languages and cultures, and on post-secondary education. Her current work focuses on pluralistic approaches to language teaching and their implementation in teacher training, as well as on integrated didactic approaches. She is also a member of the Plurilingual Lab and the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance.

Hannah Keim is a master’s student in Second Language Education at McGill University. She works as a research assistant in the Plurilingual Lab at McGill and additionally as a French and English teacher in Montreal. She has also taught in Alberta as a French Immersion teacher. Her research interests include plurilingualism in French as a Second Language programs, teacher education and drama in French as a Second Language classrooms.

Eva Kartchava is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. Her main research interest is to explore the processes involved in the acquisition of a second language in the classroom setting. Specifically, she is interested in and has published research on the relationship between corrective feedback and second language learning, noticeability of feedback, and the role of individual differences in the language learning process. For more information, please visit Eva’s website.

Michael Rodgers is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. His research is concentrated in two areas: language learning through viewing video, and vocabulary acquisition. His research on video has concerned comprehension of episodes of authentic television programs viewed with and without captions. Research on vocabulary acquisition has focused on word learning through viewing video, lexical coverage of television, movies and video games, and acquisition of formulaic sequences in the language classroom. For more information, please visit Michael’s website.