Service to the Scholarly Community
International Research Community Work and Leadership
- Director-at-Large (elected), Executive Board, International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), 2010–2013; 2013–2016 (re-elected); 2016–2019 (re-elected)
- Member, Scientific Committee, the 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Sociolinguistics, 2017
- Member, Academic Programme Sub-committee, Crossroads—International Conference on Cultural Studies, 2010.
- External Judge, British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Book Prize, 2009
- Member-at-Large (elected), Executive Committee, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 2006–2009
- Member, TESOL Research Standing Committee, 2006–2010
- External Judge, The TESOL Research Interest Section/Thomson Heinle Distinguished Research Award, 2006
- Advisor to the Organizing Committee, Second International Conference On Gender Equity Education, 2006
- Chair, Nominating Committee, International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), 2005–2006
- Chair, Nominating Committee, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 2004–2005
- Member, Nominating Committee, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 2003–2004
- Treasurer-Secretary, International Society for Language Studies, 2003–2006
- Abstracts Reviews Coordinator, Foreign Language Education and Teacher Education Strand, AILA Conference, 2005
Journal Editor, Reviewer, and Editorial Board Member
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Journal of English-Medium Instruction, 2021–present
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Journal of Immersion and Content-based Education, 2021–present
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Modern English Education (Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics — National Research Foundation of Korea), 2021–present
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Journal of English-Medium Instruction, 2020–present
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Language Policy (Indexed in SSCI), 2020–present
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Classroom Discourse (Indexed in Web of Science and Scorpus), 2017–present
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, World Englishes (ISI Journal Citation Reports), 2017–2020
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, TESOL Quarterly (Indexed in SSCI), 2005–2008; 2014–2017
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Applied Linguistics (Indexed in SSCI and SCOPUS), 2009–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, British Educational Research Journal (Indexed in SSCI), 2008–2015
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2005–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Language and Education (Indexed in SCOPUS), 2006–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Journal of Critical Discourse Studies, 2004–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2003–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, International Multilingual Research Journal, 2006–2013
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 2005–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Journal of Asia TEFL, 2010–2018
- Review Board Member, English Teaching: Practice and Critique (Indexed in ISI, SCOPUS, SSCI, ERIC), 2015–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Pedagogies, 2005–2013
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Education Journal, 2005–2018
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Asian Journal of Communication, 2010–2020
- Editorial Board Advisory Member, Pragmatics and Society, 2009–2018
- Associate Editor, Linguistics and Education (Indexed in SCOPUS), 2006–2011
- Member, TESOL Quarterly Editor Search Committee, 2007–2008
Occasional Reviewer for Journals
- Modern Language Journal
- Language, Culture and Curriculum
- Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
- Canadian Modern Language Review
- Chinese Journal of Communication and Society
- Asian Pacific Journal of Language in Education
Professional Membership
- International Society for Language Studies
- The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
- TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
- AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics)
Reviewer of Book Proposals/Manuscripts
- Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
- Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK
- Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
- Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany
- Routledge, London, UK
- Springer Publishing
Reviewer of Research Proposals
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Global Research Network Program. (July 2017)
- Hong Kong General Research Grants (GRF) (May 2009; April 2012; April 2013)
- Austrian Science Fund (Humanities and Social Sciences), Austria (August 2012)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Jan 2009; Jan 2012)