Piotr Romanowski is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics of the University of Warsaw, Poland. His background is in TESOL and he earned a PhD in Linguistics from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His main areas of scholarly interest include: bi-/multilingual education, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and intercultural communication. He is the author of over forty scholarly works. He has published with such prominent publishers as Peter Lang, Springer, Cambridge Scholars, etc. He has lectured in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan. He is the founding member and president of MultiLingNet (2017-2021) – an international association grouping scholars who share an interest in multilingualism.
Ewa Bandura, a senior lecturer in the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, has been involved in foreign language teacher training for over twenty years. She defended her PhD in applied linguistics at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include: the intercultural dimension in educational policies and foreign language teaching, and more recently, fostering criticality as a transversal competence through foreign language education. She has participated in several educational and research projects initiated by the British Council, Cultnet (an international research group founded by Prof. M. Byram at University of Durham, UK) and EU-US Atlantis Programme. She has been a member (recently a member of the Committee) of the Association for Language Awareness. She has published with Tertium, Multilingual Matters, Peter Lang, Cambridge Scholars, and Information Age Publishing.