Professor ZhaoHong Han
Teachers College, Columbia University, the U.S.A.
Dr. ZhaoHong Han is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Center for International Foreign Language Teacher Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Han's scholarly interests are broadly in second language learning, second language teaching, and their interface. Her work on fossilization, crosslinguistic influence, corrective feedback, second language thinking for speaking, second language reading and vocabulary development, second language reading instruction, input enhancement, second language ab initio input processing, task-based language learning, and foreign language teacher education, among many topics, has appeared in a variety of journals and books. Dr. Han is the recipient of the 2003 International TESOL Heinle and Heinle Distinguished Research Award as well as a repeated recipient of the Teachers College, Columbia University Outstanding Teacher Award.
Dr. Han has served on multiple editorial boards of academic journals including Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) and Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press). She has served as a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences on second language acquisition and second language teaching.
Over the last twenty years, in addition to teaching graduate courses (from theory to research to practice) and sponsoring doctoral dissertations at Teachers College, Dr. Han has consulted to universities and school districts on research and teacher development grants and second language programs, curriculums, and materials. She has designed and conducted foreign language teacher education programs in various parts of the world, and she is multilingual.
Associate Professor Obaid Hamid
I am an Associate Professor of TESOL Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. I teach and research policy and practice of TESOL education in developing societies. Specifically, I have researched world Englishes in pedagogy and assessment, English language and development, and English-medium instruction in relation to identity and social division. I have worked with half a dozen PhD scholars from Vietnam who have examined projects related to English in primary education, and learner autonomy, English-medium instruction and CEFR in Vietnamese higher education, and test-taker perspectives on the TOEFL and the IELTS tests.
I am currently exploring English as a Southern language. I am also involved as a co-editor in two volumes: Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond: Voices from the Global South (Routledge, in press) and Language and Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions in Bangladesh (Routledge, in progress). I am Special Issue Editor of Current Issues in Language Planning and a member of the editorial boards of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, and Asiatic. I am a Bangladeshi immigrant in Australia where I live with my wife and three children. I speak Bangla as my first language, and I am a beginner learner of Arabic.
My research profile and publications can be found in the following sites: http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/ 1604, https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=MZpRIwQAAAAJ&hl=en
Asst. Prof. Thanis Tangkitjaroenkun
Asst. Prof. Tangkitjaroenkun is a Lecturer in English and an Assistant Dean for Student Competency Development and Internationalization at the School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand. He is the Editor-in-Chief of reFLEctions Journal (https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ reflections/about) – the publishing venue for 2024 FCLE high-quality papers.