Dr. Pavlenko's current research examines the relationship between language, emotions, and cognition in bilingualism and second language acquisition, with the focus on crosslinguistic influence and first language attrition. Her publications include more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, 7 special journal issues, and 8 books. Her recent books include Thinking and speaking in two languages (2011), The Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2009), Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries(2009),  and Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition (2008).

Dr. Kanno's research interests include language and identity, bilingual education, critical ethnography, and language minority students' educational opportunities. She is currently working on immigrant English language learners' access to college education and novice ESL teachers' development of professional identity. A native of Japan, she is the author of two books, Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees  Betwixt Two Worlds, (2003) and Language and Education in Japan: Unequal Access to Bilingualism (2008).

Dr. Swavely has 17 years of teaching experience that includes high school English, undergraduate ESL reading and writing courses, Intensive English Language Program courses, undergraduate education courses, and graduate level TESOL courses. She has conducted several studies on ESL students' responses to reading and writing assignments in undergraduate courses, as well as their responses to teacher feedback on their compositions. Upon receiving a grant from the Wachovia Foundation in 2004, she designed, implemented, and researched a school-based language teacher education program that certified elementary teachers in ESL. Her current work in language teacher education curriculum design continues to be informed by this research.

Dr. Wagner's research is informed by his extensive teaching background in both K-12 and higher education in the United States and abroad. He focuses on language assessment, especially on the assessment of second language listening ability, and the non-verbal components of spoken language. Dr. Wagner's research interests also include the development, teaching, and assessment of second language pragmatic competence, and second and foreign language pedagogy.

Dr. Sniad’s 15 years of experience in TESOL and urban education include administrative and teacher development work in Camden, NJ, college preparation programming, national training for out-of-school education, and college teaching. She has conducted research on classroom discourse in work-force readiness education as well as in-service and pre-service teacher professional development. Dr. Sniad has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on diversity and equity in education, linguistics, second language acquisition, and language teaching methodology. Her current instructional and research focus is on the preparation of K-12 teachers to support English Language Learners in content area classrooms.