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'''Li Wei''' is Professor of Applied Linguistics at [[Birkbeck College]], [[University of London]], [[UK]].<ref>http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/our-staff/li-wei</ref> He is an applied linguist with a particular interest in bilingualism and multilingualism. He was born in [[Beijing]], China of Manchu-Chinese parents and was initially trained as an English language teacher at the end of Mao's [[Cultural Revolution]]. He worked as an English teacher for two and a half years before studying at Beijing Normal University. He went to [[Newcastle University]] to teach Chinese there in 1986. He has an MA in English Language Studies and a PhD in Speech Sciences from Newcastle. His PhD supervisor was the sociolinguist Lesley Milroy with whom he worked on a number of research projects. He was made Professor of Applied Linguistics in 1998 and was Head of School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University between 2002 and end of 2006. He joined Birkbeck College in January 2007, where he is Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
'''Li Wei''' is Professor of Applied Linguistics at [[Birkbeck College]], [[University of London]], [[UK]].<ref>http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/our-staff/li-wei</ref> He is an applied linguist with a particular interest in bilingualism and multilingualism. He was born in [[Beijing]], China of Manchu-Chinese parents and was initially trained as an English language teacher at the end of Mao's [[Cultural Revolution]]. He worked as an English teacher for two and a half years before studying at Beijing Normal University. He went to [[Newcastle University]] to teach Chinese there in 1986. He has an MA in English Language Studies and a PhD in Speech Sciences from Newcastle. His PhD supervisor was the sociolinguist Lesley Milroy with whom he worked on a number of research projects. He was made Professor of Applied Linguistics in 1998 and was Head of School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University between 2002 and end of 2006. He joined Birkbeck College in January 2007, where he is Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
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Amongst his many publications are the best selling The Bilingualism Reader and The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism which won the 2009 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize. |
Amongst his many publications are the best selling ''The Bilingualism Reader'', ''The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader'' and ''The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism'' which won the 2009 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize. He is Principal Editor of The International Journal of Bilingualism (Sage), co-editor of ''Chinese Language and Discourse'' (Benjamins) and the book series ''Research Methods in Language & Linguistics'' (Wiley-Blackwell). |
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Li Wei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.[1] He is an applied linguist with a particular interest in bilingualism and multilingualism. He was born in Beijing, China of Manchu-Chinese parents and was initially trained as an English language teacher at the end of Mao's Cultural Revolution. He worked as an English teacher for two and a half years before studying at Beijing Normal University. He went to Newcastle University to teach Chinese there in 1986. He has an MA in English Language Studies and a PhD in Speech Sciences from Newcastle. His PhD supervisor was the sociolinguist Lesley Milroy with whom he worked on a number of research projects. He was made Professor of Applied Linguistics in 1998 and was Head of School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University between 2002 and end of 2006. He joined Birkbeck College in January 2007, where he is Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Amongst his many publications are the best selling The Bilingualism Reader, The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader and The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism which won the 2009 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize. He is Principal Editor of The International Journal of Bilingualism (Sage), co-editor of Chinese Language and Discourse (Benjamins) and the book series Research Methods in Language & Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell).
international journal of bilingualism
blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism and multilingualism
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405126078.html