Margie Berns (first author) Professor of English as a Second Language and Director of the Graduate Program in English as a Second Language, Department of English, Purdue University, Indiana, USA, 1987-present Selected publications: In the presence of English: the English language, media and European youth (Springer), 2006, co-editor and co-author of four chapters Applied linguistics: history and overview , in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, (2nd edition, K. Brown, ed., 2006), co-author World Englishes and communicative competence , in Handbook of World Englishes(B. Kachru, Y. Kachru & C. Nelson, eds., 2006) Expanding on the expanding circle: where do WE go from here? World Englishes (2005) English language proficiency in lower secondary: a comparative study of four European countries in Globalization of English and the English Language Classroom (C. Gnutzmann & F. Intemann, eds., 2005), co-author English in South America , Special issue of World Englishes (2003), co-editor Contexts of Competence: Social and Cultural Considerations in Communicative Language Teaching (Plenum, 1990) Initiatives in Communicative Language Teaching II (Addison Wesley, 1987), co-editor Initiatives in Communicative Language Teaching (Addison-Wesley, 1984), co-editor Editorial experience: Coordinating Editor, Sociolinguistics and for the Applied Linguistics Sections, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Volumes 1-14, 2nd edition, Elsevier, 2006 Editor, World Englishes (Blackwell), 2007 - Fatima Esseili (second author) PhD student, English as a Second Language, Department of English, Purdue University, 2006 present; MA, ESL/Applied Linguistics, Cindy K. Torres (third author) PhD student, English as a Second Language, Department of English, Purdue University, 2006 present;