My Expertise
Language learning strategies, language learner agency, language and literacy education, language teacher agency, international students in higher education, language education policy
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL), LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy, Teacher education and professional development of educators, Education policy, Comparative and cross-cultural educationBiography
I am a language teacher educator at the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales Australia.My research interests include international students’ educational experiences, language learner agency, language and literacy education, language education policy and language teacher education. Over the years, I have been promoting the use of sociocultural/ecological perspectives to understand...view more
I am a language teacher educator at the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales Australia.My research interests include international students’ educational experiences, language learner agency, language and literacy education, language education policy and language teacher education. Over the years, I have been promoting the use of sociocultural/ecological perspectives to understand language learner's strategy use and language teacher agency. Relevant publications have appeared in journals such as English Language Teaching Journal, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, Studies in Higher Education, System, Teaching and Teacher Education, and TESOL Quarterly. I edit International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching for De Gruyter and an executive editor for Teaching and Teacher Education for Elsevier. I am also a principal associate editor for The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher (Springer) and a section editor for Education Section, SAGE Open (Sage). In addition, I co-edit the English Language Education book series for Springer. I also serve on the editorial boards of journals including Applied Linguistics Review, The Asia Pacific Education Researcher, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Modern Language Journal, Language Awareness, Language Learning Journal, and Teacher Development. I received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales in 2022. I was the Faculty’s Outstanding Young Researcher (2015) at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, a co-recipient of TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST issues (2012-2013), and have been named as one of 30 Up and Coming at TESOL International’s 50th anniversary.
My Qualifications
Phd (HKU), MA (Warwick, Leuven), BA (Wuhan)
My Awards
- March 2013 TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST Issues (by TESOL International, together with Professors Icy LEE at CUHK and Mary Shepard Wong at Asuza Pacific University)
- June 2015 Faculty Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
- March 2016 TESOL’s 30 Up and coming leaders (TESOL International)
- December, 2022 the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Faculty of Arts, Design and Archiecture, University of New South Wales
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Language learning, language learner and teacher agency, language teacher education, and language education policy
My Engagement
American Association for Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
British Associatoin for Applied Linguistics
AILA
TESOL
Editorship or Editorial Board Membership in Scholarly Journals
Editors
January, 2021- Co-editor International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (De Gruyter, Germany)
August 2014 - Co-editor English Language Education Book Series (Springer International, Netherland)
Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2021 Co-editor System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Elsevier, Oxford, UK)
March 2013 – Dec. 2013 Associate editor System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Elsevier, Oxford, UK)
March 2012 – March 2013 Associate Editor The Asia Pacific Education Researcher (Springer International, Netherland)
Members of Journals’ Advisory and Editorial Boards
April 2015 – present English Teaching and Learning (National Taiwan Normal University)
March 2010 – March 2013 TESOL Quarterly (TESOL International)
Oct. 2013 – present Journal of Language, Identity and Education (Taylor & Francis)
January 2014 – present The Asia Pacific Education Researcher (Springer)
Sept. 2014 – present Teacher Development (Taylor & Francis)
January 2015 – present Journal of Asia TEFL (Asia TEFL)
Occasional Manuscript Reviewer for International Journals
Applied Linguistics
Asia Journal of English Language Teaching
Asia Pacific Journal of Education
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Chinese Journal of Communication
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal
Educational Research
European journal of Educational Psychology
Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics
International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
International Journal of Educational Review
Journal of Asia TEFL
Journal of Education for Teaching
Journal of English for Specific Purposes
Journal of Pragmatics
Journal of Teacher Education
Language Awareness
Language, Culture and Curriculum
Language Teaching
Language Teaching Research
Linguistics and Education
Modern Language Journal
Reading in a Foreign Language
Studies in Higher Education
Teacher Development
Technology, Pedagogy and Education
TESOL Quarterly
World Englishes
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-8721