Keynote Speakers' Information
Christine C. M. Goh
Professor of Education, National Institute of Education, NTU Singapore
Christine Goh is President’s Chair Professor in Education (Linguistics & Language Education) at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as well as Honorary Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, Institute of Education, University College London. An experienced language teacher, teacher educator and researcher, she has a strong interest in second language oracy development and learner metacognition. Christine’s work is characterised by a research/theory – practice nexus that informs teaching and research. Her recent book publications are the second edition of Teaching and learning second language listening: Metacognition in action (2022, with Larry Vandergrift, Routledge) and Confident speaking: Theory, practice and teacher inquiry (2023, with Xuelin Liu, Routledge). She has also published extensively in top tier academic journals and spoken at various international platforms.
DR KRISTOF SAVSKI
Associate Professor of Linguistics , Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Dr Savski is an applied sociolinguist specializing in language policy and language education. Among other topics, he has written on the Common European Framework of Reference and its use in Asia, teacher migration in Thailand, linguistic landscape in education and translanguaging. His recent work includes the monograph Language Policy in Action (2024, Cambridge University Press) as well as articles in Language in Society, ELT Journal, TESOL Quarterly, and elsewhere.
DR OBAIDUL HAMID, PHD
Associate Professor of TESOL Education, University of Queensland, Australia.
Hailing from Bangladesh where he studied and taught at the University of Dhaka, Dr Obaidul’s current research focuses on the policy and practice of TESOL education in developing societies. He is a co-editor of Current Issues in Language Planning. He is on editorial boards of Language Policy, TESOL Quarterly, Discourse, English Teaching Practice & Critique, Journal of Asia TEFL, and Asiatic. He recently co-edited Language and sustainable development in Bangladesh: Policies, practices, and perceptions (Routledge, 2024). He is currently working on a book on English as a Southern language
FAUZILAHYATUN BINTI MUSTAFA, D.S.M.
Director, Policy and Research Department, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP)
Born in Johor Bahru in 1967, Fauzilahyatun binti Mustafa is a distinguished Malaysian civil servant and language advocate. She holds a Diploma in Law from Institut Teknologi MARA (now UiTM), awarded in 1992, following her STPM education at Sekolah Menengah Munshi Abdullah, Melaka.Her professional journey with Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka began in 1993. Over the decades, she has ascended through numerous editorial and planning roles, ultimately serving in multiple directorial capacities, including Director of Language and Literature Development, Director of Publishing, and currently, Director of Policy and Research. Her work has spanned educational publishing, editorial leadership, terminology planning, and language policy formulation.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR TAMAS KISS
Associate Professor, Sunway University Malaysia
Asso. Prof. Dr Tamas Kiss works as an Associate Professor at Sunway University, Centre for English Language Studies, in Malaysia. He has been involved with language teacher education programmes in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and Southeast Asia. He has delivered one-off talks and directed longer, intensive teacher development courses in more than 20 countries including Hungary, the Philippines, Lithuania, Pakistan, Iraq, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ukraine, Mexico, Nepal, etc. by invitation of universities, language teacher organizations, cultural institutions, or international publishing houses. His main research interests include language pedagogy, language teacher education, creativity, intercultural communication, the link between complex dynamic systems and education, and the role of culture in language teaching materials. He co-authored Creativity and English Language Teaching: From inspiration to implementation (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) with Alan Maley. His latest book projects include an edited volume on critical pedagogies in ELT in the Southeast Asian region with Joanna Joseph Jeyaraj and David D. Perrodin, Critical Pedagogies in English Language Teaching and Learning in South East Asia (2024, MELTA-USM Press) and a monograph co-authored with Freda Mishan, Developing Intercultural Learning Materials (2024, Routledge). This year he co-edited and wrote a bilingual book (English and Hungarian) with the title Xantus and/es Borneo: A Hungarian naturalist in 19th century Sarawak (2025, Sunway University Press).