Jin Lixian
City University of Macau

Dr. Jin Lixian  is Chair Professor in Applied Linguistics and Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at City University of Macau. With over 40 years of working in higher education, she worked fully time in China, Britain and Hong Kong and developed herself from a lecturer to a chair professor in applied linguistics and intercultural learning. She is President of International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies. She has been awarded research grants and has led international research teams from China, Malaysia, Singapore, and EU countries to study ELT, intercultural communication in leadership and business contexts and bilingual language assessments for language disability. Sponsored by the British Council and local governments, she has provided teacher, healthcare and other professional training sessions in China, Britain, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Cyprus and Japan, She has produced College English textbook series as editor and writer: Creative Reading, Creative Communication, Creative Writing; Teachers’ books for New Standard College English and New Horizon College English for Macmillan jointly with Chinese top publishers; as well as translated a series of children picture books into English. She is an executive editor or editor for a number of international and national journals, including as a Co-Editor in Chief for a new journal of Studies of Applied Linguistics in Asia (SALA). Her over 200 publications focus on researching cultures of learning, intercultural communication, sustainable leadership, metaphor and narrative analysis and bilingual clinical assessments.