Lǐ Wéi （李嵬） is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.[1] He is a 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 For a BA in English language and literature at Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学). He went to Newcastle University, UK, to teach Chinese 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 at Newcastle University in 1998 and was Director of the Centre for Research in Linguistics between 1999 and 2002 and Head of School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences between 2002 and end of 2006. He joined Birkbeck College in January 2007, where he is Pro-Vice-Master for Research and Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK.
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 for Applied Linguistics Book Prize. He is Principal Editor of The International Journal of Bilingualism (Sage), Editor of Applied Linguistics Review http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/skMbwEn.cfm?rc=42772&ad=he (De Gruyter Mouton), Co-Editor of Chinese Language and Discourse http://www.benjamins.com/catalog/cld?sa=1 (Benjamins), and Editor of the book series Research Methods in Language & Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell).
international journal of bilingualism
blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism and multilingualism
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