Acknowledgements

It is hard to believe that the journey we embarked on over three years ago has ended. The journey was inspired by the work of our mentor Merrill Swain but was the brainchild of Wataru Suzuki. After some gentle persuasion, Neomy Storch joined along. Overall, it has been a most enjoyable and professionally rewarding journey for us both, providing us with opportunities to engage in lots of languaging, oral, written, self-directed, or collaborative, with a wonderful group of colleagues all over the globe.

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who have helped us during various phases of creating this edited volume. First, we would to express our deepest gratitude to the editors of the LL&LT monograph series, Nina Spada and Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, for their continuous support and encouragement as well as careful reading and critical reviews of an earlier version of this edited volume. Second, we would like to thank all the authors of this edited volume who have contributed directly to the book and served as internal reviewers of assigned chapters. Third, we would like to thank the external reviewers who have provided and shared their expertise with us. They are Ahlem Ammar, Marta Antón, Frederick J. DiCamilla, Idoia Elola, Maria C.M. de Guerrero, Xavier Gutierrez, Yasuhiro Imai, Tae-Young Kim, Youjin Kim, Icy Lee, Omer Hassan Ali Mahfoodh, Kim McDonough, Toshiyo Nabei, Hossein Nassaji, Anna Oskoz, Miyuki Sasaki, Ali Shehadeh, Manami Suzuki, and Wei Zhu. Fourth, we would like to acknowledge that this project was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15KK0034, JP17K02979, and JP20K00865. Finally, we would like to thank our family members who have supported us emotionally throughout the process. Wataru thanks Heonjeong Jeong and Shun Suzuki. Neomy thanks Paul Nissen, Amir Nissen, Edan Nissen, and Mel Amaya.