About the Authors

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie in the area of professional interaction and his publications include Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL, Language and Professional Identity and Applying Conversation Analysis (edited with Paul Seedhouse)

Steven Ross

Steven Ross is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland College Park. His research has appeared in Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly, System, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Prospect, Applied Linguistics, Language Testing, International Journal of Testing, Language Learning, and in many edited volumes.

Paul Seedhouse

Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. His monograph The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom was published by Blackwell in 2004 and won the Modern Languages Association of America Mildenberger Prize. He currently has a grant from EPSRC to build a kitchen which uses digital technology to teach users French language and cuisine simultaneously.