Ken HYLAND 海亮 (Corresponding Fellow)

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Fields of Study:

Academic discourse, Second language writing, Writing pedagogy, Genre, Corpus analysis, Feedback and teacher-learner interaction, Hedging and modality

Profile:

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia. He was previously a professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, and The university of Hong Kong and has taught in Africa, Asia and Europe.

He is best known for his research into writing and academic discourse, having published 250+ articles and 29 books on these topics with over 51,000 citations on Google Scholar. A collection of his work was published in 2018 as The Essential Hyland (Bloomsbury).

His most recent books include second editions of Second Language Writing (CUP, 2019) and Feedback on Second Language Writing (edited with F. Hyland, CUP, 2019), Academic Discourse and global publishing (with K Jiang, Routledge, 2019), Specialized English (edited with L. Wong, Routledge, 2019) and Novice writers writing for publication (edited with P. Habibe, Palgrave, 2019).

He is the Editor of the Bloomsbury Discourse Series and Routledge Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics, was founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and was co-editor of Applied Linguistics.

Ken is Visiting Professor at Jilin University, China.