Yau Tsai is a faculty member of the Department of Applied Foreign Languages at Fooyin University in Taiwan and also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. She holds a doctorate in education from Durham University in England. Her research interests include intercultural studies, second/foreign language acquisition, teaching English as a foreign language and higher education.Stephanie Houghton, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Saga University, Japan. She is author of Intercultural Dialogue in Practice: Managing Value Judgment through Foreign Language Education and has published numerous other books on intercultural communication.