Dr Bill Batziakas holds a PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication from King's College London (University of London). His main research interests are English for Academic Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca. He has served on the editorial board of Asian Englishes, the Asian EFL Journal, and the Asian ESP Journal.
Dr Karima Ben Abbes holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex, UK. Her research interests include second and third language (L2 and L3) acquisition. She published "Transfer in L3 Acquisition: Is it Holistic or Property-Based?” in International Journal of Language and Linguistics 7(3) (2020). She served as a reviewer for the Second Language Research (SLR) journal.