Jonathan Shachter is a full-time lecturer at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka, Japan. He earned a B.A. in Trumpet Performance from Virginia Tech, an M.Ed. in Education from American College of Education, and a Masters in Psychology from Macquarie University. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. He is a firm believer that the skills developed in studying the language of music can be applied to language acquisition. His current research interests are affect, performance, and educational psychology. 

Christopher G. Haswell is an associate professor at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. He has an M.A. in English Language Teaching from the University of Technology Sydney and a PhD. in Sociolinguistics from The University of Sheffield. He has been living in Japan for over 20 years and conducted research into various ways English has affected Asian countries' interactions, including how Asian users of the language view other Asian varieties in common use, how teaching assistants around the world use English in Japanese universities, and how effective linguistic modeling can encourage a more pluricentric view English throughout Asia. His current research interests are how the reporting of Asian sociolinguistics in academic journals has changed over time and a project to produce online materials for the teaching of Global Englishes.