Jasti Appa Swami teaches at the University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests include EAP writing, discourse analysis, critical literacy development, application of SFL to different domains of social life, language teacher education, use of new technologies for developing materials. His work is published in refereed journals. He conducts both wide-angled and narrow-angled EAP writing workshops for research scholars and faculty across disciplines.

Nathan is a Senior Lecturer in English, Literacies and Language in the School of Education at the University of New England (UNE). He investigates the interrelationship between language, literature and literacy in student writers and multimodal texts such as videogames, picturebooks and animated films. Nathan employs systemic functional linguistics, social semiotic theory, and multimodal critical discourse analysis as research methodologies. His research contributes to multimodal theory and the applied research field of English disciplinarity. He is an Associate Editor of The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy and serves the profession through involvement with the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA).

Hanaa Samaha is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language at the Faculty of Language and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her research focused on functional syntax and Systemic Functional Linguistics with her primary interest in Arabic syntax. Her current research includes Appraisal Theory, discourse analysis, multimodality, and language learning and teaching theories