Currently - Editor-in-Chief of Relay Journal, with Jo Mynard and Satoko Kato.

Currently - Podcast Editor of Language Learning & Technology.

Currently - Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT).

Currently - Associate Editor of Language Teaching Research Quarterly.

Currently - Editorial board member of Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics.

Currently - Editorial board member of Digital Applied Linguistics.

Currently - Editorial board member of the St Andrews Journal of International and Language Education (STILE).

Currently - Editorial board member of RELC Journal.

Currently - Editorial board member of Education Sciences.

Currently - Editorial board member of Studies in Educational Management.

Currently - Editorial board member of The Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, (Springer).

Currently - Editorial board member of AsiaCALL Online Journal.

Currently - Editorial board member of JALTCALL Journal, Japan.

Currently - Editorial board member of Language Testing in Asia, (Springer).

Currently - Editorial board member of The International Journal of TESOL & Education.

Currently - Editorial board member of the Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Currently - Editorial board member of the Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments.

Currently - Editorial board member of the Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal.

Currently - Editorial board member of rEFLections Journal, Thailand.

Currently - Editorial board member of the International Journal of Research in ELT.

Currently - Editorial board member of the AsiaTEFL Book Series.

Currently - Editorial board member of Forum for Linguistic Studies.

Currently - Editorial board member of the International Journal of Modern Languages And Applied Linguistics (IJMAL).

Currently - Advisory board member of Studies in Self-Access Learning.

Currently - Advisory board member of JASAL (Japan Association for Self-Access Learning).

Academic Service

Currently - Panelist for the New Zealand Ministry of Education’s Tertiary Education Committee 5-yearly PBRF research evaluation.

Currently - Reviewer for the Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme & the Strategic Public Policy Research (SPPR) Funding Scheme of the Central Policy Unit (CPU) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government.

Currently - Reviewer for Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government.

Currently - Convenor (with Mark Pegrum) of the AILA Research Network on Mobile Gaming.

Currently - Research Chair, Anaheim University, USA.

Currently - Advisory Board member of the Norwegian government-funded project 'starting age and extramural English'. See here.

Currently - Chair of the Ethics Committee, Anaheim University, USA.

Currently - Chair of the Ethics Committee, Anaheim University, USA.

Currently - Reviewer for Foreign Language Annals

Currently - Reviewer for System (since 2008).

Currently - Reviewer for ReCALL.

Currently - Associate Researcher on the ‘Web 2.0 European Language Portfolio’ project at the European Centre for Modern Languages.

Currently - Member of IMS global learning consortium.

Currently - Member-at-large of the JALT Learner Development SIG.

Currently - Member of FOSSFA (the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa)

Currently - member of Teachers without Borders.

Currently - member of the International Virtual Environments Research Group

Currently - member of the Language, Literacy and Digital Education group at UCLAN, Lancaster, UK.

Currently - invited member of Gamlit, Games and Literacy, group.

2019 - Member of the Routledge Experts Panel for Education Arena.

2019 - Program Committee Member for the CALL2019 (XXth) International CALL Research Conference.

2019 - Member of the Scientific Committee for 7th International Conference on e-Learning and e-Teaching (ICELET2019), Iran.

2019 - Member of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Behavioral Science (EPBS-2019), Istanbul, 25-26 October.

2018-2019 - Editorial Advisory Board member for the ‘Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration and Technologies’, edited by Jan Travers and forthcoming with IGI publishers.

2014-2017 - Convenor (with Alice Chik) of the AILA Research Network on Digital Gaming.

2020 Reviewer for Modern Language Journal.

2020 Reviewer for Language Testing in Asia.

2020 Reviewer for TESL-EJ.

2019 Reviewer for Studies in Second Language Teaching.

2017 - Reviewer for the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).

2017 - Reviewer for the Journal of the New Zealand Society of Applied Linguistics.

2017 - Reviewer for the Journal of Learning & Individual Differences (Elsevier).

2017 - Reviewer for the Journal of English Studies.

2017 - member of the honorary scientific committee of the International Conference on New Trends in English Language Teaching and Testing (www.NTELT.com), Dubai August 24, 2017.

2017 - member of the scientific committee of the 1st Conference on Practical and Pedagogical Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning” which will be held by Islamic Azad University, Urmia Branch, in Urmia, Iran, August 26-27.

2017 - Editorial Advisory Board member of “Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning”, published by IGI.

2016 - Reviewer for the International Journal of Applied Linguistics

2016 - PhD Examiner for Waikato University.

2016 - Reviewer for Computers and Education

2016 - Research Advisor for Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

2015 - PhD Examiner for the University of Auckland.

2015 - External Monitor of the PhD programme at King Mongkut University in Thailand.

2015 - Editorial Advisory Board member for ‘Multiculturalism & Technology-Enhanced Language Learning’, by Tafazoli & Romero: IGI Global.

2015 - Reviewer for Applied Linguistics.

2011-2014 - Convenor, AILA Research Network for Technology and the Language Learner, with Glenn Stockwell.

2014 - PhD examiner for Massey University, Palmerston North

2013 - Reviewer for Language Teaching Research.

2013 - PhD examiner for Macquarie University, Sydney

2012 - PhD examiner for Monash University, Melbourne

2009-2012 - Panel member for the Masters and Doctorate in Professional Studies Programme Approval Panel and Research Ethics Sub Committee membership, at the Institute of Work-based Learning, Middlesex University, London.

2009-2011 - member of The Teaching and Learning Committee, the International Business Group, the Progression & Achievement Committee, the Senior Learning Resources Management Committee, and the Student Experience Committee, at Middlesex University. In March 2010 I was elected to the Academic Board. I chair the Learner Development Steering Group.

2011 - Reviewer for Language Awareness.

2011 - Reviewer for Computer-Assisted Language Learning.

2008 - Reviewer for Applied Linguistics.

2007-2008 - Reviewer for Language Teaching Research.

2007-2009 - Reviewer for Language Learning.

2003-2010 - Coordinator of the Learner Autonomy Project Inventory.

2008-2009 - Materials developer for Macmillan English Campus (academic English materials for online study: see here).

2009 - Conference committee member for the 4th Independent Learning Conference in Hong Kong, 2009.

2008 - Editorial board member for ‘Language Acquisition Technologies: Web 2.0 Transformation of Learning’, by Thomas, M. (Ed.), published by IGI.

2002-2007 - Member of the Languages Support Taskforce, University of Auckland.

2007 - PhD examiner for the University of South Australia.

2008 - Reviewer for the 2008 SLRF Conference.

2008 - Reviewer for the 2008 JALTCALL conference.

2004-2008 - Executive committee member of the Pacific Computer-Assisted Language Learning Association New Zealand Chapter President.

2004 - grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for ‘establishing a comparative research methodology framework for the investigation of independent language learning and related teacher development’.

2004 - Member of the organising committee for the inaugural conference of the Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning conference, December 1-3, 2004.

2003 - Travel award to present at the e-ducation conference in Abu Dhabi February 22-24, 2003.

2003 - External examiner for Otago University.

2002-2003 - Convenor of the Independent Learning conference in Melbourne September, 2003 (see under ‘Autonomy’).

2002 - Co-founder of the Independent Learning Association (see under ‘Autonomy’).

2002-2003 - Member of the Diagnostic English Language Needs Assessment reference group at the University of Auckland.

2001 - Research grant from the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics for the project ‘A Study of Tertiary Level English Language Self Access Centres in Australia and New Zealand’.

2000 - Finalist of the Dutch AILA (Anela) thesis prize.

Qualifications

2011 - Wine and Spirits Education Trust certified instructor (I know, I know, not very academic!).

2011 - Wine and Spirits Education Trust advanced certificate, with distinction.

2010 - Wine and Spirits Education Trust intermediate certificate, with distinction.

2005 - PhD University of Auckland, Department of Applied Language Studies & Linguistics. Recipient of a Top Achiever Doctoral Award from the Foundation for Science, Research and Technology for a period of 3 years.

2000 - Master’s degree (Honours) in Applied Linguistics from the University of Groningen. Finalist of the Dutch AILA (Anela) thesis prize.

1999 - Study in Damascus at the University of Damascus.

1996 - Scholarship to Study in Cairo at the Dutch Institute for Arabic and Archeological Studies.

1995-1998 - BA degree (Honours) in Applied Linguistics from the University of Groningen.

1994-1999 - BA degree in Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at the University of Groningen. First language Arabic, second language Hebrew. Specialisation: Arabic language acquisition, Dutch language acquisition by Arabic speakers, Civil Society.

1993 - Italian Language and Culture in Siena, Italy at the ‘Università per Stranieri’. Italian language advanced levels, Italian 19th century poetry, Renaissance art, Italian phonology, Italian art history.

Selection of courses taught

• Fostering Innovation in the Workplace
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Educational Technology
• Educational Policy
• Research Skills
• Leadership in Education
• Analysing Learner Language
• Technology in Language Learning and Teaching
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning (various courses)
• Task-based Language Teaching
• Research in Applied Linguistics
• Resource-based language teaching
• Introduction to Second Language Acquisition (undergraduate)
• curriculum development
• Interlanguage Pragmatics

Teacher Education

• Certificate in TESOL
• Teaching Writing Through Text Types for Secondary School Teachers
• Teaching Oral Presentation Skills
• Structure of English
• Classroom Management
• Instructional Design
• Strategy instruction
• Learner Autonomy
• Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching
• Materials Design

Language Proficiency

• Academic Writing, Listening to Lectures, Presentations Skills and many other academic English topics
• English Proficiency for L2 English Teachers
• Dutch as a second language for refugees
• General English classes: all topics from lower secondary to adult learners
• Beginner level Arabic
• Beginner level Italian
• TOEFL and IELTS preparation classes
• English for Government Officials and other ESP classes
• A wide range of self-access workshops
• Language counselling sessions.

With some of my students in Singapore