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• Mark D. Johnson is associate professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at East Carolina University, where he teaches classes on linguistics and teaching English to speakers of other languages. His research focuses on cognition in second language writing, particularly on features of writing tasks and the demands they make on language production. His publications have appeared in TESOL Journal, Writing and Pedagogy, Language Teaching, the Journal of Second Language Writing, and Applied Linguistics. His 2017 article,CognitiveTask Complexity and L2 Written Syntactic Complexity, Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency: A Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis,received an honorable mention from theJournal of Second Language Writingin their competition for the best paper of 2017. He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Language studies, and on the executive board of the Carolina TESOL organization.