Patricia (Patsy) Duff is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of Language & Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her main research interests are related to language socialization across bilingual and multilingual settings; qualitative research methods in applied linguistics (especially case study and ethnography); issues in the teaching and learning of English, Mandarin, and other international languages; and sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and sociopolitical aspects of language(s) in education. She gave a keynote address at the 2015 Second Language Studies Symposium entitled Examining Agency and Self-directed Socialization in Second Language Research. For more information about Dr. Duff, please visit her website: http://faculty.educ.ubc.ca/pduff/