Honorary/Adjunct Professors

• National University, Singapore

• Princeton University, USA

• Osaka University, Japan

• Professor of Department of Arts Education, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

• Adjunct Assistant Professor
• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Adjunct Associate Professor
• Peking University, China

• Adjunct Assistant Professor
• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Adjunct Professor
• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Adjunct Associate Professor
• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Adjunct Professor
• Professor, Curriculum & Instruction Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA
• 18 July 2024 - 31 July 2026

• Adjunct Assoicate Professor

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

• Adjunct Professor
• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Adjunct Professor
• The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• 1 March 2026 to 29 February 2028
• Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, San Francisco State University, United States

• 1 March 2026 to 29 February 2028
• Professor, School of Education, Bishop's University, Canada

• 1 March 2026 to 29 February 2028

• Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium
• Co-director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
• Member of the Institute for Language and Communication, the Linguistic Research Unit and the Language and Literature School
• Member of UCLouvain’s Research Council

Area of expertise

• Research interest: corpus linguistics, learner language, cognitive linguistics, varieties of English, New Englishes, and writing processes in L1 and L2

• Professor of School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
• Adjunct Professor of School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages, Curtin University, Australia
• Honorary Professor of School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
• Visiting Professor of Department of Education, University of Bath, UK

Area of expertise

• Research interest: teaching English as a foreign language, rhetoric, TESOL, applied linguistics

• Professor of National Institute of Education

Area of expertise

• Second language writing, Classroom writing assessment and feedback, Writing teacher expertise Assessment for/as learning, Teacher professional development

Achievement

• Delivered over 200 talks, including invited and plenary conference presentations in Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Chinese Mainland, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and the USA
• Published over 150 and comprising books, book chapters, and journal articles
• Awarded the Journal of Second Language Writing Best Paper Award in 2008 and again in 2022, TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST Issues in 2013, and Research Excellence Award at CUHK in both 2011 and 2015

• Professor at Pennsylvania State University, USA

Area of expertise

• Research interest: corpus linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, second language writing, second language acquisition, and computer-assisted language learning
• Teaching specialisation: corpus linguistics and technology-mediated language learning

Achievement

• Conducted numerous studies to investigate the relationship of lexical and syntactic complexity to language proficiency, language development, and language production quality as well as the effects of various learner- and task-related factors on this relationship