Dear Readers,
And here is another great issue! We start off this “Special Issue” on “Advances in Teacher Cognition” ably edited by Mohammad N. Karimi, Seyyed Foad Behzadpour and Behzad Mansouri. See their introduction for further details.
We also present 11 “regular issue” articles along with 5 book and media reviews, as well as our usual “On the Internet” feature. This August issue is outstandingly “international” with the lead authors resident in eleven countries, but with the implications of each article applicable to other contexts pursuant to TESL-EJ editorial policy. In fact, to further this policy, the editors have decided henceforth to discourage the use of country names in the titles of articles since that alone would imply that the results are not applicable elsewhere.
Passages. We owed a debt of gratitude to Behzad Mansouri, one of our co-editors, who had simultaneously helped to edit the media reviews while also facilitating the special issue found herein. If any reader with experience with media use for ELT would be interested in joining the TESL-EJ media team, please contact <media@tesl-ej.org> including your relevant credentials.
Board of Reviewers. Some 15 scholars have reviewed three or more submissions within the past year, and in addition, have received high scores from the editors for their contributions. We shall be inviting them to join our Board of Reviewers, as an expression of our gratitude.
Thanks to recent reviewers. We thank the reviewers of all submissions that had reached a decision since our last issue – regardless of whether the paper was accepted, declined or revisions requested. We are grateful to the following scholars, some of whom have reviewed two or more papers during the current period: Abdul Syahid, Adele Connor, Akihiro Saito, Amanda Giles, Amin Pouresmaeil, Amira Albagshi, Anita Lie, Ann E. Roemer, Aránzazu García-Pinar, Barry Keith, Behrang Mohammad-Salehi, Betsy Gilliland, Burcu Gokgoz-Kurt, Cuong Huy Pham, Daisy Casipit, Dodi Mulyadi, Duy Van Vu, Ehsan Rassaei, Elise Nicole Brittain, Ender Velasco, Fahimeh Marefat, Frankie Subon, Graeme Couper, Hilda Freimuth, Holly Stiles, Hyunjin Jinna Kim, I Putu Indra Kusuma, John Evar Strid, Juland Salayo, Kathleen Eilers-crandall, Kuang Li, Lehman Heaviland, Loc Tan Nguyen, Luan Nguyen, Mandana Arfa-Kaboodvand, Matthew Nall, Megan Banerjee, Mingkun Lou, Mohammad Kazemian, Musa Nushi, Nick Daniels, Olive Nabukeera, Ranson Lege, Reza Adara, S M Akramul Kabir, Shaun Manning, Suyansah Bin Swanto, Theresa Summer, Ufuk Atas, Vijayababu Palukuri, and Vijayakumar Chintalapalli.
Best,
Thomas N. Robb, Ph.D.
For the editorial team