Speakers

Li Wei is Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education, and Professor of Applied Linguistics at University College London, UK. His research covers many different aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism. He is Fellow of the British Academy, Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He is Editor of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Applied Linguistics Review.

Enric Llurda is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Lleida, where he is a member of the CLA research group (https://www.cla.udl.cat/). His research has mainly focused on non-native language teachers, English as a lingua franca, language attitudes, multilingualism, and internationalisation in higher education institutions, and he is the leading researcher of the project Development of language ideologies in the training of pre-service English language teachers from an ELF perspective (ELFING). He has published in several international journals, including Language Teaching, ELT Journal, World Englishes, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Journal of English as a Lingua Franca. He is the editor of the book Non-native language teachers: Perceptions, challenges and contributions to the profession (Springer, 2005), and more recently of the volume titled Dismantling the native speaker construct in English language teaching (Routledge, 2026).

Maria Luz Elena N. Canilao is Associate Professor and the current English Department Chair at the Ateneo de Manila University. Her works focus on Philippine Englishes; Global Englishes; translanguanging; trans-speakerism; teacher and learner agency; and language planning and policy. She is an ACELT (Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching) teacher trainer and consultant. She has worked with various institutions including the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and the British Council, Philippines. She is an educator and mentor whose primary advocacy is the empowerment of learners and teachers in multilingual contexts.