231 Acknowledgements We express our enormous gratitude to the reviewers: Andrew Lian, a senior professor at the School of English, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, Emeritus Professor of Languages and Second Language Education at University of Canberra; Deepti Gupta, a professor at the Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India; Eugenius Sadtono, a senior professor at Universitas Ma Chung, Malang, Indonesia, and a retiree from the State University of Malang; Patrisius Istiarto Djiwandono, a professor at Universitas Ma Chung, Malang, Indonesia; Willy A. Renandya, a senior lecturer at the ELL Department, National Institute of Education, Singapore, Siti Mina Tamah, a senior lecturer at Widya Mandala Catholic University, Surabaya, Indonesia; Dédé Oetomo, a lecturer of sociolinguistics at Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Surabaya, and of gender and sexuality at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia; Feng Teng, a lecturer at Nanning University, Nanning City, China, and some other anonymous reviewers. The peer reviews they contributed are very significant to maintain the quality of this online journal. The same thankful expressions also came from authors for the reviewers’ scholarly comments and feedback. And last but not least, our great appreciation goes to all authors for their articles. Editors