Shawn Loewen is Professor of MATESOL and Second Language Studies at Michigan State University and Associate Editor of The Modern Language Journal. His research interests include instructed second language acquisition, second language interaction and quantitative research methodology. He is also co-editor (with Masatoshi Sato) of The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (2017) and Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy: A Collection of Instructed Second Language Acquisition Studies (2019).