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Name: Chair Professor Andy KIRKPATRICK
Qualifications: - BA (Chinese Studies) Leeds
- PG Dip (Modern Chinese Literature)   Fudan
- MA (ELT and Linguistics) York , UK
- PhD (Chinese Rhetoric) ANU,   Canberra
Contact

Email: akirkpat@ied.edu.hk
Office: B3-2/F-39 Department of English
Hong Kong Institute of Education
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong
Tel: 2948 7237


Teaching Interests


World Englishes

TESOL Teacher Education

Cross-cultural communication

Academic literacies



Research Interests


Development of new varieties of English

Contrastive discourse and rhetoric (Chinese-English)

History of Chinese rhetoric

Development of academic disciplines in China


Selected Publications

Books / Edited Books

Course Books

  • Kirkpatrick, Andy (2004). Intercultural English (with N. Honna ). Tokyo : Ikubundo Press.
  • Kirkpatrick, Andy (1992 / 6 / 7) Advance with English Volumes 1 - 3 (With D.H. Howe and D.L. Kirkpatrick). Oxford : Oxford University Press.
  • Kirkpatrick, Andy (1982 / 7) Interlink Volumes 1 - 4 (With D.L. Kirkpatrick, Vanita Saravanan and Christopher Fry). Singapore : Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

Keynotes and Invited Conference Presentations

  • (2009) Learning English and other languages in multilingual settings: myths and principles’ . Seminar as part of Cambridge University Press’ 425 th Anniversary, March 25th
  • (2008) English in Southeast Asia: friend or foe to users and to local languages International Association of World Englishes, Conference, Hong Kong, 1-5 December
  • (2008) World Englishes: Implications for English Language Teaching. Japanese Association of Language Teachers Conference (JALT), Tokyo, 31 Oct–2 Nov
  • (2008) Academic Writing in Chinese and English. The First Biennial Conference of the International Society of Chinese Rhetoric. Qufu, July 11-13
  • (2008) English as a lingua franca: implications for ELT . Far Eastern English Language Teachers’ Association, Vladivostok, 26-28 June
  • (2008) World Englishes: Implications for English Language Teaching. Conference of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines. Manila 28-30 April
  • (2008) World Englishes: Implications for English Language Teaching. Post-RELC Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 25 April
  • (2008) World Englishes: Implications for English Language Teaching. Regional Language Centre (RELC) Conference, Singapore 21-24 April
  • (2007) Variation in World Englishes: Implications for ELT . Korean Association of Teachers of English, Seoul, 6- 7 July.
  • (2007). If the goal is being trilingual, then use successful trilinguals as models: the Case for Hong Kong Language Classrooms. The 2nd Pearl River Delta English Studies Postgraduate Conference, Shenzhen University 15-18 June
  • (2007). What do Cicero, the Ars Dictamen of Medieval Europe and Chinese Letters of Request have in common? The Fuzhou 2007 Forum on Rhetoric Chinese and Western (Fujian Normal University, May 25-27.
  • (2007) Variation and Intelligibility in World Englishes: Implications for ELT . IATEFL conference, Aberdeen, 18- 22 April. (CUP forum paper.)
  • (2007) English as the academic lingua franca: implications for the dissemination of ‘local’ knowledge . British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) conference, Durham, UK, April 16- 17.
  • (2006). Variation in the use of verbal inflections for tense in varieties of English. 12th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes, Nagoya, 7-9 October 2006.
  • (2006). The Teacher Supply Question: where will English teachers come from and what do they need to know? , Bangkok , Future Perfect: English Language Policy in Transition' Seminar, 25 - 26 September.
  • (2006). Teaching English Across Cultures. What do English language teachers need to know to know to teach English. English Australia Conference, Perth, 14 - 16 September.
  • (2005). Oral Communication and Intelligibility among ASEAN speakers of English. Regional Language Centre , Singapore , International Seminar, 18 - 20 April
  • (2004 a) Which model of English for China : external, internal or Asian lingua franca?
  • The International Conference on Language, Culture and EFL Teaching, Harbin Institute of Technology, PR China, Jan 6 - 7.
  • (2004 b) N orms , varieties and intelligibility , The Malaysian International Conference on Language Teaching, Malacca, May 10 - 12.
  • (2004 c) Betrayed, bothered and bewildered: teaching languages in Australia . Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Australia , Perth , November 22.
  • (2004 d) Immigrants and Aborigines: Contexts and Causes for Inter-cultural Misunderstanding within the Englishes of Australia , Australian ‘country’ paper for the 9 th English in South East Asia Conference, Yogyakarta 13 - 15 December 2004
  • (2001 a)New Approaches to English Language Teaching. Seminar on Specific English for Indonesians, Bandung , 29 - 30 June.
  • (2001 b) Australian Aboriginal English as a Lingua Franca, 6 th English in South East Asia Conference, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila , Nov 28 -Dec 1.
  • (1999 a) The use of citation conventions in Chinese: implications for the teaching of academic writing. 4 th International Symposium on Language Teaching, Beijing , 6 - 14 October.
  • (1999 b) English as an Asian Language: Implications for the English Language Curriculum. 4 th English in South East Asia Conference , Singapore , 22 - 24 November.
  • (1998)Which language is easier to learn: English or Chinese? 3 rd National Conference of Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching, Beijing , 27 - 30 July.
  • (1997 a) The advantages and disadvantages of the non-native speaker teacher. Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Australia , Hobart , 27 - 30 September.
  • (1997 b) The Non-native teacher as model. 3 rd Biennial Symposium of Language Teaching, Beijing , PR China 5 - 9 October.

International Advisory Boards

  • Bloomsbury Review of Applied Linguistics and Communication
  • Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University (CALPIU), Roskilde University, Denmark

Member of the following editorial boards:

  • Asian Englishes,
  • Asian Linguistics and Language Teaching (e-j),
  • East Asian Learner,
  • English Australia,
  • Journal of Second Language Writing ,
  • Language and Education,
  • The New English Teacher ,
  • The New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics (NZSAL),
  • The Philippine Journal of Linguistics,
  • Profile,
  • TESOL in Context ,
  • TESOL Quarterly

External Appointments

  • Professor Andy Kirpatrick has been appointed to the international editorial board of The New English Teacher.