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Professor Martha C. Pennington is Professorial Research Associate in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Research Fellow in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College, both University of London. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Writing & Pedagogy and of two book series: Frameworks for Writing (Equinox) and Innovation and Leadership in Language Teaching (Brill). She has published in Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, Journal of Second Language Writing, System, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, and other journals on the teaching of writing, English teacher education, bilingualism, and second language phonology. Among her books are Welcome to My World: A Writing Course (Equinox, 2014, co-authored with Theresa M. Welford) and Introduction to Bilingualism and Multilingualism: People and Languages in Contact (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).