The Editors : Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (Ph.D.) teaches English phonetics and phonology in the Department of English, University of Lód ? . Her research interests are second language phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and immigrant studies. Patrick James Melia (M.A.) has taught TEFL in Egypt, Germany, Oman and Poland. His research interests are in language acquisition, teaching methodology, corpus linguistics and the related field of learner corpora.