Management Committee
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Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Education
Professor Amy B M Tsui is a member of the International Advisory Panel of English Language Institute of Singapore, Ministry of Education (MoE) which advises the MoE on the development of effective communication in schools and in the community (2010 – present). She provided consultancy service to Cambridge International Examinations and contributed to the “Cambridge Horizons” seminar on bilingual education, held in Singapore. She is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki (2011-present), Scientific Advisory Board of Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki (2011-2014), the Governing Board of International Baccalaureate, the Organizing Committee of AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Applique) Language Policy Network, the Advisory Board “Education: Emerging Goals in the New Millennium”, Nova Science Publishers, New York, and an Honored Life member, The Global (EIL) English International Language Congress / Asian EFL Journal. She currently is a member of the editorial board of 11 international refereed journals, and was a member of the editorial board of a further 10 international refereed journals.
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Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Dr Yuen Yi Lo’s research interests include bilingual education, Medium of Instruction policy and classroom interaction. In recent years, she has been investigating the professional development of teachers in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and issues related to CLIL assessment. Her research has been published in Review of Educational Research, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language Teaching Research and Language and Education, and she is the author of the book “Professional Development of CLIL Teachers”. Dr Lo is well experienced in running CLIL workshops for teachers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, assisting them in applying CLIL in classrooms.
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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Dr. Lianjiang Jiang (George) is currently assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. His expertise is in multimodality and multiliteracies in second language education, with a focus on digital multimodal composing, multimodal assessment/feedback, and digital pedagogies. He is interested in how traditional reading and writing can be expanded and repurposed in today’s digital and multimodal world. He is guided by his conviction that second language education should be responsive to linguistic and cultural diversity, social change, and digital advancements. He is passionate about developing digital multimodal pedagogies to empower marginalized second language learners and teachers to cross the linguistic, cultural, and digital divides for individual growth and social mobility. His research has a strong social equity orientation that shapes his teaching and practice. His work appears in the leading journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Computer Assisted Language Learning. He is on the editorial board for Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Quarterly, and Linguistics and Education, leading journals in the field of language and literacy education.
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Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Dr. Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. His research areas include the sociopolitics of language education, qualitative research, and critical studies of discourse in society. His writing has appeared in journals including Applied Linguistics; Language, Identity and Education; Critical Inquiry in Language Studies; and TESOL Quarterly. He is the author of ‘Doing Qualitative Research in Language Education’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and, among other volumes, has co-edited ‘English Language Education Worldwide Today: Ideologies, Policies and Practices’ (Routledge, 2020).
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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Dr. Somin Park is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education. Her research focuses on early language and literacy development during early childhood years. Her work investigates evidence-based practices for supporting early language and literacy development for monolingual- and emergent bilingual- children. Her work also examine what teacher characteristics and experiences support quality early language and literacy practices in the classrooms.
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Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Dr Chun Lai is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on technology and language education, investigating the role of technology in Chinese and English language teaching and learning. Her recent research is dedicated to understanding and promoting self-directed language learning in informal learning contexts. She has published widely on this topic and are the authors of Autonomous Language learning with Technology beyond the Classroom (Bloomsbury Publishing) and Insights into Autonomy and Technology in Language Teaching (Castledown Publishers). She is currently the Associator Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning, a leading journal on technology and language education.
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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Dr Clarence Green is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD (University of Melbourne), Graduate Diploma of Education and Master of Applied Linguistics. Formerly a literacy teacher in Australia and Canada, and currently co-chair of the Australian Linguistics Society’s ‘Linguistics in the School Curriculum’ panel, his research focuses on literacy, first and second language acquisition, vocabulary and reading development.