Paula Kalaja is a professor of English in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the co-editor of Beliefs about SLA: new research approaches, Narratives of learning and teaching EFL and a special issue of System “Beliefs about SLA revisited”. He is also the co-author of a number of articles published in national and international forums; of a textbook on learning to learn foreign languages. He is also the co-editor of a textbook on research methods in language learning, teaching and assessment and (co)author of some chapters to this volume.