FPT Language and Education Conference (FLEC 2026) is an academic platform in which professors, researchers, industry experts and practitioners could gather and exchange their insights on language and education and other relevant matters as well as the construction of their publications. The Conference welcomes contributions and submissions of those who have interest in the fields of language and education and the related fields. This year, we are proud to have the presence of two distinguished keynote speakers with solid background and wide experience of these majors.
Associate Professor Punchalee Wasanasomsithi
Punchalee Wasanasomsithi is an Associate Professor at Chulalongkorn University Language Institute (CULI), Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a B.A. (2nd class honors) in English from Chulalongkorn University and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Language Education from Indiana University, USA. She served two terms as the Director of the English as an International Language (EIL) Program, an international program under the Chulalongkorn University Graduate School (CUGS) where she has been teaching and supervising graduate students for more than two decades. She is also currently serving her third term as the Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of CULI and her second term as the Editor-in-Chief of PASAA Journal, a Scopus-indexed publication of Chulalongkorn University and the oldest journal in English language teaching and learning in Thailand. She is also a guest editor of TESOL Journal Special Issue 2025 on ASEAN English Language Teachers' and Teacher Educators' Situated Praxis during Times of Crises and Change. She has published more than 40 journal articles and book chapters in English language teaching and language assessment and evaluation.
Associate Professor Punchalee Wasanasomsithi is attending FLEC 2026 as a Keynote Speaker and delivering a speech titled Language Assessment in Thailand: Past Practices, Current Status, and Future Trends. Click here to read her abstract.
Associate Professor Karen Forbes
Dr Karen Forbes is Associate Professor in Second Language Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She previously taught French and Spanish in a secondary school in England and has taught English as a foreign language in Spain and China. She currently teaches and supervises across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to language education. Karen is part of the Multilingualism and Language Education (MuLtiE) research group at the Faculty of Education and her current research interests include multilingual identity, language learning strategies and school language policy. She has published in a range of international journals including The Language Learning Journal, Language Teaching Research, System and the International Journal of Multilingualism and she is a member of the Editorial Board for the Cambridge Journal of Education. Karen is also Fellow and Director of Studies in Education at Homerton College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Linguistics learning and pedagogy is one aspect of her research foci. Attendees of FLEC 2026 will be offered chances to discuss this topic with AP. Karen Forbes through her speech titled Multilingual identity in the languages classroom: implications for promoting and enhancing language learning. To read the paper's abstract, please click here.