Tracey Derwing is a professor emeritus from the University of Alberta’s Teaching English as a Second Language program, and an adjunct professor in Linguistics at Simon Fraser University.  Her research interests include improved communication on the part of L2 learners and their interlocutors; immigrant and refugee settlement issues; and citizenship education.  Tracey and her colleagues have conducted intervention studies in the workplace to enhance inter-worker communication. She currently serves on a committee that advises the Canadian government on matters related to federally-sponsored language training programs for newcomers.  Tracey has published widely in academic journals, books and textbooks.  She has co-organized several conferences and serves on the Editorial Boards of a range of journals.

John M. Levis is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. He is founding editor of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation and the founder of the annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, the premier conference for second language pronunciation in North America. He is an author of several books including Teaching Pronunciation with Confidence and Intelligibility, Oral Communication and the Teaching of Pronunciation and co-editor of several books, including Second Language Pronunciation: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice, the Handbook of English Pronunciation, and Social Dynamics in Second Language Accent.

Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer received her PhD from the Applied Linguistics and Technology, Iowa State University and is an assistant professor in the same program. She was the editorial assistant of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (JSLP) from 2014 to 2021 and the chair of Speech Pronunciation and Listening Interest Section (SPLIS) of TESOL International association between 2020-2021. Sinem’s research interests include pronunciation teaching, materials evaluation and development, and computer-assisted language learning. She published her work in TESOL Quarterly, Speech Communication, and CATESOL Journal. She is the co-editor of Second language pronunciation: Bridging the gap between research and practice (Wiley Blackwell) with John M. Levis and Tracey M. Derwing.