Amy B. M. TSUI

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Professor Amy B. M. Tsui is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President for Teaching and Learning and is Chair of Language and Education at The University of Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD in linguistics in 1986 at The University of Birmingham, U.K. She has published widely in the areas of teacher education, language policy, discourse analysis, and TEFL / TESL, and has given a number of keynote/plenary papers in these areas in European and Asian countries. She serves on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of a number of international refereed journals. She is a founding member and a Council member of Asia TEFL. Her most recent publications include Understanding Expertise in Teaching (2003), published by Cambridge University Press, which has been translated into Chinese by People’s Education Press in China; Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning, (2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) co-authored with Ference Marton); Medium of Instruction Policies: Which Agenda? Whose Agenda? (2004, LEA, co-edited with James Tollefson), Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts (2007, LEA, co-edited with James Tollefson) and Learning in School-University Partnership: Sociocultural Perspective (forthcoming, Rouledge, co-authored with Gwyn Edwards and Francis Lopez-Real).