Luxin Yang is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education and Graduate School of Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. She has been involved in in-service and pre-service foreign language teacher education in China over a decade. Her research interests include foreign language teacher education, second language writing, and academic literacy development.
Tae-Young Kim is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English Education at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. His main area of research interest is L2 learning/teaching (de)motivation particularly in the context of English as a foreign language. He has published over 180 academic journal articles and book chapters on L2 learning/teaching (de)motivation and recently published a book entitled Historical Development of English Learning Motivation Research: Cases of South Korea and Its Neighboring Countries in East Asia at Springer.