Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes and Director of Scholarship at the University of Leeds
Alex Ding is Director Scholarship at the University of Leeds. He is co-author of ‘The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner: Operating on the Edge of Academia’ (with Ian Bruce) and co-author of (with Laetitia Monbec) of ‘Reimagining Language in Higher Education: Ontology, Social Theory and Ethics for Social Change’ (Palgrave, 2024). He has recently co-edited two volumes; ‘Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes’ and ‘Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes’ (Bloomsbury). He co-edits ‘New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes’ (book series, Bloomsbury) and The Language Scholar. He also co-leads an MA Teaching English for Academic Purposes.
Professor Douglas Bell
Professor of English Language Education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Douglas Bell is currently Professor of English Language Education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, where he also serves as the Director and Admissions Tutor for the MA TESOL programme. His international career (Austria, Japan, Turkey, America, UK, Australia and China) in English Language Teaching now spans some 36 years, covering his ongoing professional interest in classroom practice, materials writing and teacher development, especially in ESP and EAP contexts. His latest book ‘Studying for a Masters in TESOL or Applied Linguistics: A Student Reference and Practical Guide’ was published by Routledge in December 2023 and a further monograph, ‘EAP, Perspectives on the Past, Present & Future’ is expected to be published by Multilingual Matters in 2024.
Professor Boping Yuan
Professor Emeritus in Language and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge
Boping Yuan is a Professor Emeritus in Language and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He continues to be a PhD supervisor at Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is currently also a Distinguished Professor in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are in linguistic approaches to second/third language acquisition, particularly in non-native language acquisition of Chinese within the framework of formal linguistics. He is the General Editor of Journal of Second Language Studies and has been serving as a member of editorial boards of Second Language Research, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Lingua, 《世界汉语教学》，《外语教学与研究》，《现代外语》, etc. He has had publications in prestigious journals, such as Language, Linguistics, Transactions of the Philological Society, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Learning, International Review of Applied Linguistics, EUROSLA Yearbook, International Journal of Bilingualism, Lingua, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Frontiers in Psychology, 世界汉语教学》，《外语教学与研究》，《现代外语》，etc. He also compiled two Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. His forthcoming monograph entitled Interlanguage Grammars of Mandarin Chinese is going to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Dr Alex Ding
Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes and Director of Scholarship at the University of Leeds
Alex Ding is Director Scholarship at the University of Leeds. He is co-author of ‘The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner: Operating on the Edge of Academia’ (with Ian Bruce) and co-author of (with Laetitia Monbec) of ‘Reimagining Language in Higher Education: Ontology, Social Theory and Ethics for Social Change’ (Palgrave, 2024). He has recently co-edited two volumes; ‘Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes’ and ‘Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes’ (Bloomsbury). He co-edits ‘New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes’ (book series, Bloomsbury) and The Language Scholar. He also co-leads an MA Teaching English for Academic Purposes.
Professor Douglas Bell
Professor of English Language Education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Douglas Bell is currently Professor of English Language Education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, where he also serves as the Director and Admissions Tutor for the MA TESOL programme. His international career (Austria, Japan, Turkey, America, UK, Australia and China) in English Language Teaching now spans some 36 years, covering his ongoing professional interest in classroom practice, materials writing and teacher development, especially in ESP and EAP contexts. His latest book ‘Studying for a Masters in TESOL or Applied Linguistics: A Student Reference and Practical Guide’ was published by Routledge in December 2023 and a further monograph, ‘EAP, Perspectives on the Past, Present & Future’ is expected to be published by Multilingual Matters in 2024.
Professor Boping Yuan
Professor Emeritus in Language and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge
Boping Yuan is a Professor Emeritus in Language and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He continues to be a PhD supervisor at Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is currently also a Distinguished Professor in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are in linguistic approaches to second/third language acquisition, particularly in non-native language acquisition of Chinese within the framework of formal linguistics. He is the General Editor of Journal of Second Language Studies and has been serving as a member of editorial boards of Second Language Research, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Lingua, 《世界汉语教学》，《外语教学与研究》，《现代外语》, etc. He has had publications in prestigious journals, such as Language, Linguistics, Transactions of the Philological Society, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Learning, International Review of Applied Linguistics, EUROSLA Yearbook, International Journal of Bilingualism, Lingua, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Frontiers in Psychology, 世界汉语教学》，《外语教学与研究》，《现代外语》，etc. He also compiled two Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. His forthcoming monograph entitled Interlanguage Grammars of Mandarin Chinese is going to be published by Cambridge University Press.