Professor Dr Chieko Mimura is a currently at Utsunomiya University, where she serves as a professor and coordinator of the English Program. Her academic interests include identity in language learning/teaching and cross-cultural experience and postmodernist feminism in education.

Professor Dr Su-Hie TING is a lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She graduated with a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Queensland. Her research areas are language use and identity, academic writing and communication strategies. She has given training on research writing and communication strategies.

Professor Dr Souba Rethinasamy is a Professor at the Faculty of Language and Communication, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). She obtained her PhD in Language Testing and Evaluation from the University of Roehampton, London. She has more than twenty years of experience in teaching the English language and related courses at the tertiary level. She pursues interests in language testing and evaluation, English medium instruction, language teaching-learning, and student mobility.