Li Wei (linguist)
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Li Wei (
Biography
Li Wei was born in
He became Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University in 1998, the first Chinese to achieve full professorial rank in linguistics in a UK university, and was Director of the Centre for Research in Linguistics between 1999 and 2002 and founding Head of the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences between 2002 and the end of 2006. He joined Birkbeck, University of London in January 2007 as Chair of Applied Linguistics. In January 2015, he took up the Chair of Applied Linguistics at University College London's Institute of Education.[3]
Publications
Amongst Li Wei's publications are the best selling The Bilingualism Reader, The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader, Applied Linguistics, Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Ofelia Garcia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) which won the 2015 BAAL Book Prize, and The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism which won the 2009 British Association for Applied Linguistics Book Prize.[4] He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Taylor & Francis), and Applied Linguistics Review (De Gruyter). He founded several other leading journals in linguistics and education, including the International Journal of Bilingualism (Sage),[5] Global Chinese (De Gruyter), Chinese Language and Discourse, Language, Culture and Society (Benjamins), Educational Linguistics (De Gruyter), and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (Elsevier). He is editor of the Wiley-Blackwell book series Research Methods in Language & Linguistics and Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistics.
Personal
Li is his surname, but he follows the
References
- ^ "Professor Li Wei appointed as Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education". UCL. UCL Institute of Education. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ^ "Fellows Archive". ACSS. Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Li Wei". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ British Association for Applied Linguistics:Book Prize 2009 Li Wei & Melissa G. Moyer. The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Blackwell (Accessed 20 March 2012)
- ^ International Journal of Bilingualism: Homepage (Accessed 20 March 2012)