Amy S. Thompson is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at West Virginia University, USA. Her primary research interests involve individual differences in SLA and their interaction with multilingualism. She is the author of The Role of Context in Language Teachers' Self Development and Motivation: Perspectives from Multilingual Settings (2021, Multilingual Matters) and co-editor, with Ursula Lanvers and Martin East, of Language Learning in Anglophone Countries: Challenges, Practices, Ways Forward (2020, Palgrave MacMillan). She has published in a range of Applied Linguistics journals.