Contributors Muhammad Amara is the head of Graduate Studies at Beit Berl Academic College, co-chair of Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality, and the president of the Israeli Society for the Study of Language and Society. His academic interests include language education, language policy, sociolinguistics, language and politics, collective identities, and the Arab–Jewish divide in Israel. His publications include: Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian Border Villages(John Benjamins 1999), Language Education Policy: The Arab Minority in Israel (Kluwer Academic Publishing 2002), the co-edited book (with Abd Al-Rahman Mar’i) Language and Identity in Israel (Ramallah: The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies, MADAR 2002), Languages in Conflict: A Study of Linguistic Terms in the Arab–Israeli Conflict (with Abd Al-Rahman Mar’i) (Dar Al-Huda and Dar Al-Fiker 2008), and Arabic in Israel: Language, Identity and Conflict (Routledge 2018). email: [email protected] Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew is a professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. She was Fulbright Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 2010 as well as Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the UK in 2012. She has served on various ministerial committees addressing lan- guage and education issues in Singapore and has been advisory board member of international research journals such as Teaching Education, Asia Tefl and Gendering Asia. She is the project advisor for Instep, the textbook and audio-visual series used in Singapore schools. Her aca- demic publications include Emergent Lingua Franca (Routledge 2009), A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities (Palgrave 2013) and Muslim Education in the 2lst Century: Asian Perspectives (Routledge 2014). email: [email protected] Maya Khemlani David is Adjunct Professor, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, India and Research Associate in the Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Prof. David has conducted a number of studies of minority ethnic communities, focusing on the main- tenance or shift of their respective heritage languages. For her work on this she was awarded the Linguapax Prize in 2007 (see https://ipfs.io/ipfs/ ix x Contributors QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/ Linguapax_Prize.html), following in the footsteps of esteemed sociolinguist Professor Joshua Fishman. Maya is also an honorary member of the Foundation of Endangered Languages. Her publications include inter alia The Sindhis of Malaysia: A Sociolinguistic Account (ASEAN 2001), Methodological and Analytical Issues in Language Maintenance and Language Shift (Peter Lang 2002) and Language Choices and Discourse of Malaysian Families: Case Studies of Families in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Strategic International and Research Development 2006). email: [email protected] Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, PhD, directed the PhD programmes in Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University, Steinhardt through summer 2019. Her research includes sociolinguistic aspects of second-language acquisition, intercultural pragmatics, heritage language study, technology-enhanced language learning, and second-language writing. Dr Ebsworth previously taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and has taught classes on ESL research and pedagogy at NYU since 1979. She chairs the NABE Bilingual Research and Evaluation SIG Advisory Panel and is recipient of the Bilingual Teacher of the Year Award from NYSABE as well as teaching awards from NYSTESOL and NYU Steinhardt. She has worked as a consultant for the United National Language Programme and helped develop the online site Actionthroughwords: Learning English While Learning About the UN. Dr Ebsworth is research editor of Writing and Pedagogy, serves on the Bilingual Research Journal editorial board and is featured in the film The 3 Rs. email: [email protected] Scott J. Goldberg is a teacher, consultant, and researcher in a variety of areas including multilingual literacy development and assessment, human and organizational behaviour, systems of support for students, religious/ spiritual development, and the connection between learning disabili- ties and behaviour problems. Scott is the author of MaDYK (Mivchan Dinami shel Y’cholot Kriah), used in Jewish day schools to assess and monitor Hebrew literacy development. Scott is Associate Professor at Azrieli Graduate School of Education, Yeshiva University where he was Vice Provost from 2013–2016 and inaugural director of the YU School Partnership from 2007–2013, the arm of the university that he envisioned to advance the field of Jewish education through partnership with educators, lay leaders, and schools. Scott holds a PhD in Applied Psychology from New York University, an MSEd. in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education, and a BA in Jewish Studies from the University of Chicago. email: [email protected] Sheena Kaur has been teaching English as a second and foreign language for over 20 years. She is Senior Lecturer at the English Language Department, Contributors xi Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya. She is also currently attached to the International Relations Office as a deputy direc- tor. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK in the area of Corpus Linguistics. Her research interests include the appli- cation of corpus in culture and gender, sociolinguistics, second-language learning, computer technology, internationalization of higher education and community engagement. She has produced several publications and presented at various international conferences within her research inter- ests. She has also conducted several workshops on Communicative and Business English at the workplace, as well as the use of corpus tools in lin- guistics analysis. She has received several excellent service awards and cer- tificates for her contribution to the university. email: [email protected] James McLellan is Senior Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Brunei Darussalam. He has also taught at secondary and tertiary levels in Brunei, the UK, France, Malaysia, Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). He received his PhD from Curtin University of Technology, Australia. His research areas include language alternation, multilingual education, Southeast Asian Englishes, Borneo indigenous lan- guages, language policy and planning in education, and doctor–patient communication in Brunei. Dr McLellan has authored numerous research articles and texts. He is co-editor of The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Darussalam: A Kingdom of Unexpected Linguistic Diversity (Springer 2016) and Codeswitching in University English-Medium Classes: Asian Perspectives (Multilingual Matters 2014). His current research pro- jects include, doctor–patient communication in Brunei outpatient clinics, and language choice and interaction patterns across Borneo and Mindanao. Hind Amel Mostari is Full Professor of Linguistics and Language Dynamics at the Department of English – Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts, Djillali Liabés University of Sidi Bel Abés (Algeria). Her research areas are: language contact phenomena, bi/multilingualism, sociolinguistic and grammatical approaches to code-switching, psycholin- guistics, language policy and language planning in Algeria and the Arab world, pragmatics, didactics and teaching/learning English as a foreign language. Prof. Mostari is originator and project manager of the Master’s in Linguistics at the Department of English, Djillali Liabés University. She is also a reviewer and member of many editorial boards at national and international levels. email: [email protected] George Ladaah Openjuru is Professor of Education and Vice Chancellor of Gulu University. He was formerly Dean of the School of Distance and Lifelong Learning, College of Education and External Studies Makerere University, and Head of the Department of Community Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education. He was also Associate Professor of Adult and Community Education, Makerere xii Contributors University. He holds a PhD in Adult Education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is currently Chairperson of the Uganda Adult Education Network (UGAADEN), a network of adult education organi- zations and individuals in Uganda. His areas of research are adult literacy, lifelong learning, higher education, community-based action research, community university engagement, indigenous knowledge and knowledge democracy. He is a partner in the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Youth Education and Work. email: george.open- [email protected] Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande is Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Religion, Sanskrit, Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, and Campus Honors Program, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, and a permanent member of the South Asia Committee, University of Chicago. Professor Pandharipande holds two PhD degrees, one in Sanskrit Literature and Religion from India and the other in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. Her research and teach- ing primarily focus on syntax, sociolinguistics and literature of South Asian Languages (Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi), Hinduism in India and Diaspora, Asian mythology, and language of religion.