PAULA KALAJA is Full Professor of English in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. She is an expert on second/foreign language learning and teaching. She is co-editor (with Ana Maria F. Barcelos) of Beliefs about SLA: New Research Approaches (2003), among others, and co-author (with Hannele Dufva) of a textbook on language awareness.
VERA MENEZES, former president of ALAB (Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics), is a Full Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Brazil, where she teaches and carries out research on second language acquisition and computer assisted language learning. She is also the editor of Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada.
ANA MARIA F. BARCELOS is Assistant Professor of English at the Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil. Her research interests are beliefs about language learning and teaching. She is co-editor (with Paula Kalaja) of Beliefs about SLA: New Research Approaches (2003), and of a book on beliefs about language learning and teaching in Brazil.
