Veronica G. Sardegna is the Director of the ESL and Pathways Programs at La Roche University and an Adjunct Faculty at Duquesne University, PA, U.S. She is also an ESL Specialist for the U.S. Department of State English Language Programs and a member of Cuestiones del Lenguaje international research group, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. She has researched and published extensively on topics related to English pronunciation, academic writing, instructional technology, and intercultural learning. She co-edited Theoretical and practical developments in English speech assessment, research, and training: Studies in honour of Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (2022, Springer) and English pronunciation teaching: Theory, practice and research findings (2023, Multilingual Matters).
Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar works at the Research Centre for Advanced Studies of Maule at the Universidad Católica del Maule (UCM), Chile. She is an associate researcher at the Language in the Workplace Project (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), a member of the UCM Editorial Advisory Committee, director of the journal UCMaule, member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program in Education, cluster leader for Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (HKU-RIICH) at the University of Hong Kong, PhD advisor at the University of Leuven, and member of Cuestiones del Lenguaje international research group.
Pedro L. Luchini is full professor and research director of the Cuestiones del Lenguaje international research group, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. He participated in a Fulbright Exchange Program at College of DuPage, Illinois, US (1997–1998), and a Faculty Enrichment Program at Concordia University, Canada (2007). He received a doctoral research award in 2009. His research interests include L2 English pronunciation, intelligibility, multimodal assessment, and applied linguistics, with a focus on teacher education and intercultural communication.