Naoko Taguchi is Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the co-editor of Journal of Applied Pragmatics and serves/has served on the editorial board for the Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching, Japanese SLA, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Education and International Education, and Studies of Chinese Language Teaching Journal. She is also a member of the Executive Board of AAAL. Her primary research area is L2 pragmatics.