Professional POSITIONS Sept 2014 – Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao Aug 2016 Visiting scholar, organization of Education, the University of New South Wales, Australia 2007- 2014Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Education University of Hong Kong 2006 - 2007Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sept 2006 Visiting scholar, Department of Education and Professional Studies, King’s College, University of London, UK 2003- 2005 Language Instructor, English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ACADEMIC QUAIFICATIONS PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 2003 Postgraduate Diploma, Beijing Normal University, China, 1992 BA, Anhui Normal University, China, 1990 TEACHING AREAS Second Language Learning Theories (Postgraduate course) Written and Spoken Discourse for ELT(Postgraduate course) Teaching Practice (Undergraduate)