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• Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton
• Professor (Full) at Shantou University

This book revisits the issue of China English as a developing variety of English and scrutinises students’and teachers’ attitudes towards their own and other English accents from the critical phenomenological perspective of Global Englishes (GE) in the Chinese context. The research contributes to the field of GE by proposing a model of pronunciatio...

A frequently stated aim of the increasing internationalisation of higher education (HE) is the incorporation of intercultural elements. This has recently been conceptualised through the notion of intercultural citizenship with universities promising to equip graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to engage in global workplaces and commun...

Although researchers and practitioners have discussed the concept of Global Englishes (GE), the degree of its influence in the practical use of English is much wider and deeper in the real-world than in the field of education. Mainstream ELT practices tend to adhere to native and fixed norms, which are regarded as the central problems in ELT from t...

The complexity of language contact and intercultural communication has generated various issues in relation to language use and education. As one of the many Chinese dialects (fangyans), the Chaoshan dialect (Teochew) has been affected by the extensive promotion of Putonghua, the key lingua franca across China, and English, the lingua franca for in...

The promotion of standard languages as mediums of instruction as well as the worldwide spread and popularity of English have generated various issues related to attitudes towards and ideologies underpinning different languages, language practices, and language teaching and learning in different contexts. With the promotion of the English-as-a-Mediu...

This chapter addresses the need for the inclusion of Global Englishes into English for specific purposes (ESP) classroom discourses in various domains to recognize linguistic diversity and challenge fixed-language ideologies. Various domains of ESP have different registers, varieties of lexicons, and specific genre-based expressions with implicatio...

Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial domain,...

The English language has become a global language utilized by speakers of diverse cultural backgrounds and various first languages. This sociolinguistic transformation calls for a new paradigm shift in English language teaching. To address the gap, this qualitative study explored (1) the development of Thai pre-service English teachers' awareness o...

Invited Speech for the 59th RELC International Conference on 17th March, 2025

Translanguaging has been introduced to and applied in recent decades as a pedagogical strategy in language classrooms due to its great potential for language education, reflecting the need for a multilingual perspective in the literature of language education in the twenty-first century. Although the qualitative research on teachers’ beliefs about...

Research on identity in teacher education and professionalism has been a significant issue for language teacher educators in terms of their trajectories and career development. Examining identity from contextual perspectives can assist teachers in establishing a professional self in order to facilitate them to better understand and negotiate their...

This scientometric analysis examines 688 research publications on English medium instruction (EMI) from 2003 to 2022, sourced from the Web of Science database. This investigation employs growth trend analysis, discipline analysis, co-authorship analysis, document co-citation cluster analysis, and document co-citation burstness analysis to unravel t...

In this polylog to the special issue on The rise of Chinese language education policies in the oil-rich Arabian Gulf: New players, discourses and linguistic markets, three researchers with different personal and professional connections to the three languages 'at play' in the region-English, Chinese, and Arabic-offer their assessments of both the c...

The increasing growth of English as an international language has resulted in many changes in sociolinguistic realities. The complex sociolinguistic landscape of the English language has led to diverse attitudes toward English as a global language and generated various concerns and debates on how the language should be taught and learned in various...

This entry presents on the key aspects of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in different stages of development. It argues the importance of embracing multilingual perspectives when exploring ELF in social communication and education. In particular, ELF should be positioned within the multilingual paradigm as a multilingua franca (EMF) to recognize t...

This chapter critically examines English Medium Instruction (EMI) within the Asian context with the focus on the interplay of language policy, equity, and social justice. The chapter reflects on the complexities of EMI with an emphasis on its role as both a facilitator and a potential barrier to equitable education. Drawing from personal experience...

Translanguaging has gained prominence as a viable tactic to assist the language learning of second-language (L2) learners due to the increasing variety of classrooms globally. Translanguaging pedagogy has been recently studied in diverse contexts. However, most of the research on translanguaging, especially in the Chinese context, is focused on hig...

This paper addresses the call to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and critical thinking in English major education in China. By examining the perspectives of university, college, and departmental leaders at Shantou University, this paper explores the integration of AI and critical thinking in English major education in China, focus...

This study investigates how world Englishes (WE) and translanguaging may be combined to enhance intercultural competence in Intercultural Communication. First, this paper reviews WE contributions to Intercultural Communication and explores the potential of translanguaging in facilitating intercultural competence in Intercultural Communication. Seco...

The flipped instructional approach is gaining prominence in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching. However, there is limited empirical evidence regarding its impact on students' self-efficacy sources. This study aimed to investigate how EFL learners' speaking self-efficacy sources-enactive mastery experience (EME), vicarious experience (VE),...

The global spread of EMI is a response to the internationalisation and marketisation of higher education. However, students may not fully benefit from EMI programmes if they are not adequately prepared. The extent to which students have been prepared to succeed in such programmes and acquire English as linguistic capital is an underexplored area. T...

Extant literature describes challenges faced by international students, including language deficiency, culture shock, and identity crises. However, few studies have investigated international students' second language (L2) learning in non-Anglophone higher education institutions using English as the medium of instruction (EMI), where English is use...

Globalisation and internationalisation have significantly shaped the global status of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Recently, it has been argued that ELF should be understood from a multilingual perspective in English-medium instruction (EMI) education. Although EMI policy and practice have been examined and discussed in scholarship, an examina...

Although the potential of translanguaging within ESL/EFL classroom contexts to promote students’ linguistic learning has been well-documented, most studies have focused on ESL/EFL teachers (whose L1 is not English) and their students’ ideologies and experiences, with little attention paid to the experiences and perspectives of native English teache...

The spread of English and its increasing importance in intercultural encounters have challenged essentialist perspectives of culture in English language teaching. In addition to using English as a means of communication, students are expected to develop intercultural awareness, which allows them to analyse and reflect on their intercultural encount...

Foreign language teachers' management of their emotional expression has a significant impact on their classroom teaching and professional development. As the demand for online education continues to grow, researchers are increasingly paying attention to the emotional situations of teachers in online teaching. However, there has been minimal researc...

在多元文化交融的今天，因应中国文化“走出去”战略需求，探讨英语教材融入本土文化具有重要的现实意义。本研究首先对《大学思辨英语教程口语1：文化之桥》的本土文化呈现方式进行分析；然后采用访谈的方法，探讨在校大学生对英语教材融入本土文化的认知。研究结果表明：该教材的每个单元都或多或少涉及本土文化，但内容类别选择和分布不均衡；访谈对象对英语教材融入本土文化持积极态度，但认为自身用英语表达本土文化的能力还不够强，他们普遍表达了基于文化融合视角进一步完善英语教材建设的希望。结合文本分析和访谈的结果，本研究从增加中国地方特色文化元素、融入本土化的语言表达方式，以及添加与本土文化相关的写作任务和多媒体学习资源入手，对英语教材如何充分、有效地呈现本土文化提出几点建议。

本研究以多模态教学为基础，通过对高中英语教师的课堂实例进行观摩分析以及访谈，探讨了高中英语教师对视频资源的应用情况与教学态度，为英语教师运用视频资源提供教学指导。研究表明，高中英语课堂中使用视频资源的课型以阅读课和写作课为主，且在课前、课中和课后这三个教学环节均有使用。受访教师对视频资源应用于课堂教学持积极态度，认为视频资源在课堂教学中的应用对学生的英语学习以及教师的授课具有促进作用。本研究指出视频资源融入高中英语课堂教学的有效性和必要性，并对高中英语教师在应用视频资源方面提出了启示。

Many societies in the Global South have adopted English-medium instruction (EMI) policies, but often ignoring-whether by design or involuntarily-the damages caused by the colonial legacy inherent in EMI. This neglect of the repercussions has also been inadequately addressed in the current EMI scholarship. Additionally, overlooking the coloniality a...

The paper explores whether mother tongues should be given a sustainable chance to thrive as mediums of instruction in tertiary education in Bangladesh and China. In the Bangladesh context, four universities located in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, were included in this qualitative research study. Eight teachers of English, law, general edu...

Although the ideology of monolingualism prevails in traditional English language classroom teaching, it is gradually failing to meet the current dynamic landscape of socio-linguistic and socio-cultural diversity. Translanguaging has created more spaces for students to use their varied linguistic and multimodal repertoires to express themselves and...

In recent years, the field of multilingual education has begun to focus onthe differences, dynamics, and complexities of multilingual learningamong different groups. Relevant research has contributed to a deeperunderstanding of the mechanism underlying language learning anddevelopment in the applied linguistics community. Resonating with thetrends,...

The spread of English as a global language has led to discussions and debates about English language teaching and whether language teacher education should prepare pre-and in-service teachers to teach English from the global Englishes (GE) perspective. This thematic review first addresses the need to move from traditional assumptions about native s...

Promoting professional development of in-service language teachers is key to maintaining education quality. However, extant studies on test-based continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers do not emphasise primary school contexts in China, leading to difficulties in the professional development of this teacher group. Therefore, this pap...

English writing centers have gained scholarly attention in China in recent years as a promising means to supplement traditional English writing instruction. To address the lack of empirical research on Chinese writing center praxis, this study collected 388 sets of survey responses, four writing center tutorial recordings, and four post-tutorial re...

随着新一代信息技术的兴起和社会的数字化转型，数字素养和技能已成为衡量国家软实力和国民素质的重要指标。本研究旨在探究中国高校师生对数字素养的认知、态度和需求，以推动高校数字化教育的转型和发展。通过对高校教师和学生进行半结构化访谈，结果显示，高校教师和学生普遍认识到数字素养的重要性。学生认为信息和数据素养以及职业相关技能较为重要，不同专业的学生在各素养领域的掌握程度和需求存在差异。教师认为数字素养对于完成教学任务至关重要，需要与学生的数字素养需求相匹配。为提升数字素养水平，建议设置专门的课程或修改现有课程，提高教育认识和重视程度，推动数字素养教育得到更多支持和资源投入。研究发现有助于推动中国高校数字素养教育的进一步发展，为未来数字素养教育领域提供宝贵经验，培养具备数字素养的新一代高校教师和学生。

The global spread of English is now well documented with over two billion speakers, the majority of whom are L2 users of the language. This global role of English has been particularly relevant to the Asian region, first through its use as a colonial and post-colonial language and, later, through its role as a regional lingua franca. The global rea...

The study of translanguaging in education has drawn increasing attention from scholars, particularly in the past decade. The present research conducted a comprehensive scientometric analysis using the CiteSpace application to investigate the multifaceted phenomenon of translanguaging in the context of education. It addresses the pressing need for q...

This article examines Teochew-speaking learners of English as an example of linguistic minority students' use of and attitudes toward everyday translanguaging practices. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study specifically examines students' translanguaging process with their mother tongue-Teochew (L1), as well...

Although the development of intercultural citizenship among university students has now been included as a key policy in international universities, pedagogical practices for promoting the awareness, understanding, and development of intercultural citizenship while studying abroad have reportedly been inadequate. To address this gap, this qualitati...

Although the potential of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) for intercultural learning and teaching is acknowledged, few studies have explored the teaching of culture in EMI programmes in higher education contexts. Thus, this study examined the perceptions and practices that six EMI teachers from a variety of disciplines have of culture and...

Due to the internationalization and marketization of higher education and the increasing prevalence of English as a global language, higher education institutions worldwide have implemented English medium instruction (EMI) courses, highlighting the necessity to examine how languages are chosen and practised in EMI courses. With a mixed-method trian...

This collection brings together perspectives from emerging and established scholars, working from empirical data from real-life classroom experiences, to investigate pedagogical issues in the application of EMI across a range of educational contexts in Asia. Drawing on research across different levels of education covering institutions across vari...

我国基础教育阶段英语教师培训一直是师资培训的重点项目，是我国英语教育发展的重要保障。随着英语教学的不断发展以及学生需求的不断变化，基于学科内容知识和学科教学知识的长期职业培训成为提升教师专业素养的主要手段之一。剑桥英语教学能力考试（TKT）正是基于这两类学科知识的英语教师资格考试。本文围绕北京市某行政区在职小 学骨干英语教师和新入职教师参与的TKT培训展开，通过分析10位小学英语教师在培训过程中定期分享的微叙事故事，探究这些教师在培训中面临的主要困境及其应对策略，阐释产生这些困境的原因，并据此为小学英语教师职业培训提出一些建议。

The global dominance of English has impacted higher education and led to a dramatic increase in content teaching in English (Dearden, 2014). This leads to challenges not only for teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) but also for content teachers who are required to use English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in their classroom practice....

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-Medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the political, ideological, and policy-related issues of EMI programs in multilingual and multicultural universities in Asia. In this volume, EMI researchers and practitioners involved in different Asian count...

In this introductory chapter, we present the overall rationale for the need of this volume and briefly discuss each contributing chapter. The main goal of this volume is to invite English-medium instruction (EMI) researchers to collaboratively unpack the critical dimensions of EMI policies, politics, and ideologies drawing on empirical evidence fro...

Given the recent development of globalization, the focus of research on identity in the field of applied linguistics has shifted to investigating multilingual identity among students studying abroad. Studying abroad can be regarded as an authentic setting of English as a lingua franca (ELF) that has an impact on students' multilingual identity cons...

全球胜任力培养已成为高等教育的重要目标，参与国际赛事志愿服务被认为是促进大学生全球胜任力发展的重要途径。对10名参与某国际赛事的大学生志愿者进行深入访谈发现，其全球胜任力在参与志愿服务活动后发生了积极变化，体现在文化认同、世界知识、跨文化理解、跨文化沟通能力和开放与尊重等方面。首先，得益于高强度赛前培训，志愿者的世界知识和跨文化理解水平变化最为显著；其次，志愿者全球胜任力态度与价值观变化程度居中，这源于志愿者的高内驱力和赛事期跨文化交际环境；最后，国际赛事有助于提升志愿者的全球胜任力技能，但囿于期限较短，其影响程度较小。基于研究结果，研究提出应提高服务性学习活动的比重、开设世界知识类课程以及创建真实的跨文化交流环境等建议。

With the increasing role of English as a global language, teaching and learning of that language have become a focal point of instruction around the world. Against this background, China has followed the global trend of implementing various language-related policies and practice decisions. This conceptual paper first provides a brief historical ove...

With the expanding use of English around the world, it is important to understand various stakeholders' attitudes towards it from a Global Englishes (GE) perspective. The GE perspective has challenged native speakerism and recognized the multilingual nature of the English language. In particular, a GE perspective leads to the sustainable developmen...

Although boredom is a negative emotion that students frequently experience in the process of learning English, boredom in language learning has received scant research attention in terms of its structure, levels and impact on language learning engagement. To fill this gap, the study focused on data obtained from 1157 high school students in six dif...

The global spread of English presents a multitude of challenges for teachers who must instruct learners differently to help them use English with a variety of people in multilingual contexts. However, prior research has largely ignored the question of how to support teachers to tackle these challenges. This study attempts to provide teacher profess...

Against the backdrop of the popularization of Putonghua and the teaching of English as a compulsory foreign language, it is of great significance to study people’s attitudes towards their dialect in relation to identity construction. This study uses mixed methods, including questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, to investigate the proficien...

This mixed-methods study explored the development of morphological awareness in learning Chinese as a third language, focusing on how the activation of a learner’s multilingual repertoire can influence morphological awareness. The study was conducted for a period of eight weeks with 62 Japanese students in a Chinese learning program at a university...

The complexity that arises between linguistic use and cultural identity during learners' study abroad experience has been emphasised to understand learner investment and learner agency. Anchored in a social view of learner agency and identity, this study used qualitative research methods to unpack the identity construction and negotiation of Chines...

This conceptual paper aims to review some commonalities between two paradigms: Global Englishes and translanguaging. It does so by considering the postcolonial varieties of English, the challenge of native speakerism ideology and the inclusion of multiple discursive practices in classroom discourse. This paper argues that both paradigms should be r...

The development of English as a global language has urged the feld of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to implement some reforms in relation to textbook design and curriculum development as well as the approaches to and goals of English language teaching (ELT). From the multilingual perspective, Global Englishes (GE) and tran...

This article explores the recent development of translanguaging from the perspective of multilingualism. This is in light of the multilingual turn in the field of foreign language teaching, particularly English language teaching (ELT), which challenges the fixed and traditional monolingual framework for foreign language education. In particular, th...

In recent decades, Chinese has become widely taught and learned as a second or foreign language. In addition to capturing current trends, research into Chinese language teaching and learning can contribute considerably to the development of second language theories. Yangyin Zhang and Xiaoping Gao collaborate on the edited volume Frontiers of L2 Chi...

English is widely used as a global language. The traditional monolithic model of English has been challenged as the development of World Englishes (WE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) paradigms challenge the ownership of English. With this newly emerging status quo, English language teaching (ELT) should also recognize the diversity and dynami...

Driven by a growing body of research on Global Englishes (GE) in English language education, this article showcases the integration of GE into language materials. The goal of the article is to propose a practical way of designing GE-based language materials from a critical ecological perspective. First, we discuss the recontextuali-zation of GE in...

The current landscape of English as a global language has generated disputes concerning the role of English in academic and social settings, particularly how it should be taught and learned in diverse contexts. On one hand, native speakerism has long been advocated in traditional English language teaching (ELT) settings where teachers and students...

The expanding internationalisation of higher education (HE) has resulted in the intercultural dimensions becoming a core aim of many institutions. This is frequently represented though the concept of intercultural or global citizenship with students expected to engage with academic, professional and social communities across multiple scales from th...

Research in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), that is the medium of communication between people who come from different linguacultural backgrounds, has created a rich body of work in various areas. This article focuses on a more recent development of this research for teachers and teacher educators in the perspective of critical language education...

作为重要的积极心理因素，“坚毅”在二语习得中的研究才刚刚起步。探索二语“坚毅”能够丰富“坚毅”的总体研究，推进外语学习积极人格特征研究，深入了解二语学习者成功的条件，从而有针对性地进行干预。鉴于此，本文从内涵、方法、主题等三个维度对二语“坚毅”相关文献进行梳理，探究其研究现状，并从方法、主题和实践三个层面对未来二语“坚毅”研究进行展望。 As one of the positive psychological factors, research on grit in second language acquisition is still in its infancy. Exploring L2 grit can enrich its development in order to carr...

潮汕方言是中国众多方言之一，近一段时间普通话的普及和英语教育的盛行对其发展造成了一定冲击。本研究从多语言融合背景探讨潮汕方言的使用现状和可持续发展。研究采用定量（问卷调查）和定性（访谈）的数据收集方法，对250名母语为潮汕方言的人士进行问卷调查，并对其中17人就教育背景、对潮汕方言的使用情况和态度进行访谈。研究结果揭示了潮汕方言在不同场合和群体中的使用频率、家长和学生对潮汕方言的掌握程度以及影响潮汕方言家庭语言政策的因素。尽管潮汕方言有衰弱的趋势，但大多数受访者对潮汕方言的继承和发展持积极态度。最后，本研究针对潮汕方言的可持续发展提出了相应建议。 As one of Chinese dialects, Chaoshan dialect has recently been influenced...

While there has been much research into teachers’ professional quality in general education, scant attention has been paid to the professional quality of EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers, especially those working in adverse areas, for their sustainable career trajectories. Drawing on Wu’s framework of EFL teachers’ professional quality,...

Against the backdrop of globalisation where contemporary nation states are more interconnected and linguistic and cultural contact is more salient within communication ecologies, many English language teaching (ELT) curricula emphasise the need to promote awareness of intercultural communication. However, in many settings, current ELT materials and...

Language is used in various means for interpersonal and intercultural communication, verbally and non-verbally. In real-life communication, people adopt not only linguistic but also multimodal and semiotic elements for meaning-making purposes. Sender Dovchin’s book Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenti...

Due to the spread of the English language in various domains and the fact that English is used as a global language, researchers and educators have started to rethink the models and aims of English language teaching in different settings. From the World Englishes (WE) perspective, this study investigated the attitudes of Chinese university students...

As a teacher, researcher and language educator currently based in China, I was greatly inspired when reading the book English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia: Global Challenges and Local Responses, edited by Amy Tsui. This volume includes chapters written by key scholars of English language teaching (ELT) and English language t...

Many studies have explored learner psychology in relation to second language acquisition (SLA) in order to understand the effectiveness and difficulties of language learning. In the last two decades, emotional factors in students' language learning have garnered much attention in the field of SLA. However, more recently, studies have begun to focus...

The concept of intercultural communication has become a focus in English language teaching (ELT) against the backdrop of globalization, as English is now used as a lingua franca (ELF) among people with different first languages (L1s). However, the current linguistic landscape of ELF does not reflect well in ELT practices in which native speakerism...

Teachers’ quality has long been researched in the field of general education. However, little attention has been paid to the professional qualities of excellent English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in the context of English curriculum reform, especially from an ecological perspective. To address this gap, this study adopted a qualitative ap...

A report by Research Features, introducing two of my recent publications collaborating with colleagues https://researchfeatures.com/lessons-from-china-english-language-learning-globalised-world/

Plenary Speech for the 3rd Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference

Webinar held by the University of Jember, Indonesia

With multilingualism drawing increasing attention from sociolinguistic scholars in the past two decades, the traditional monolingual ideology in language teaching has been challenged. As a new paradigm in multilingualism, translanguaging values multilingual users' integrated use of their full linguistic resources, and it offers a new perspective on...

英语作为一门全球通用语，已被广泛传播与使用。与此同时，英语在世界范围内形成了不同的变体，英语使用也不再仅以英语母语者为唯一标杆。但是，现阶段英语教学仍然基于较为传统的英语作为外语的教学模式。基于英语通用语理论，本文比较了英语通用语框架和英语作为外语框架的区别，并讨论了前者应用于大学英语教学中的挑战。最后，根据”后方法“理论提出基于英语通用语的教学模式。