Masoomeh Estaji is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU), Tehran, Iran. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University. She earned the Top Researcher Award at ATU in 2018, 2020, 2022. She has presented and published numerous papers on methodology, testing, and second language acquisition (SLA) in various national and international journals like Educational Assessment, Language Learning in Higher Education, Reading Psychology, English as an International Language, The Asian ESP, Asia TEFL, and Classroom Interaction. Her research interests include language testing and assessment, ESP, and teacher education.

Akram Ramezanzadeh is an associate professor of applied linguistics at Lorestan University. She has published papers in journals, including Language, Identity and Education, Language and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Multilingualism, System, TESOL Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, Adult Education Quarterly, Higher Education, and Teaching in Higher Education.

Kiyana Zhaleh is an Assistant Professor of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran. Kiyana does research in Teacher Education, Social Psychology of Justice, Foreign Language Education, Cross-cultural Communication, Interpersonal Relationships, and Distance Language Education. She won the Top PhD GPA and Top Researcher Award at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran respectively in 2022 and 2021. She won the Outstanding Student Award in Allameh Tabataba'i University in 2023. She also won the Top Student Grant from Iran's National Elites Foundation in 2019 and 2021. She won the Top Paper Award at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference in Paris in 2022. She won the Top PhD Graduate award (Shahid Shahriyari Grant) from Iran's National Elites Foundation in 2022.

Gholam Hassan Khajavy is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at University of Bojnord and a post-doctoral researcher at University of Graz, Austria. Hi research interests include psychology of language learning and teaching and instructed second language acquisition.

Dr. Masood Khoshsaligheh is Full Professor in Translation Studies at the Department of English at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. His primary research interests include audiovisual translation and translator education with a recent focus on the impact and relevance of generative artificial intelligence on these two areas. His interdisciplinary research has appeared in numerous international journals including The Translator, Perspectives, Visual Communication, Multilingualism, Games and Culture, Multilingualism, Media Practice, Language and Intercultural Communication among others. Having served as Department Head and Vice Dean for Research, he currently teaches graduate courses and supervises MA and PhD theses on audiovisual, and translator education, and translation and generative AI. He also serves as editor-in-chief of Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal.

Javad Gholami is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the Department of English Language and Literature at Urmia University, Urmia, IRAN. He is the Founding Manager of Virayeshyar Language Editing & Translation Center (www.virayeshyar.ir) and former Co-Editor of the Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jtes). His main publications have been on incidental focus on form, task-based language teaching, teacher education, English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP), and convenience editing of research articles. He is also interested in the professional development of EFL/ESL teachers through conducting teacher training courses and theme-based workshops.

Waqar Ali Shah holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Additionally, he has held multiple research fellowships at Penn State University (USA), University of Valencia (Spain), Center of Discourse Studies (Spain) and Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (Germany) during the period 2022-2025. He has had an honor of working under the supervision of Suresh Canagarajah and Teun A. van Dijk. His research interests inlcude applied linguistics, critical discourse studies (CDS), multimodality, translingualism and qualitative research. He has extensively published in several top-tier international peer-reviewed journals, including TESOL Quarterly, Language in Society, Journal of Multicultural Discourse Studies, Linguistics and Education, Critical Discourse Studies and others. He has recently signed two book contracts (i.e., Handbook and Edited volume) for Routledge. Professionally, Waqar Ali Shah has been working as a lecturer at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan since 2016.

Abdolhossein Joodaki, holder of a PhD. in English literature,  an associate professor, and a faculty member of Lorestan University. He has been teaching  a variety of English literature courses for about 20 years at graduate and post graduate level. He has guided more than 40 students with their m.a. thesis and researches. He has also published above 40 articles with prestigious international and domestic journals

Dr Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, where he supervises doctoral research in the critical sociology of language education and intercultural communication. The first half of his career was spent in Iran, Syria and Egypt as a curriculum developer.

Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Girne American University in North Cyprus. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Language in Society, WORD, International journal of the Sociology of Language, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, International Journal of Bilingualism, TESOL Journal, Reading in a Foreign Language, MEXTESOL, Communication Disorders Quarterly, and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He is also the author of a two-volume bilingual dictionary a well as a number of books on Linguistic and TEFL issues. His research interests include Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Cultural Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Contrastive and Error Analysis, and Phonology.