Career
Her main areas of interest are sociolinguistics, English as an International Language, and second language pedagogy. Foreign most of her career she has been involved in second language teacher education, both in the United States and abroad. Her articles appeared in such journals as the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Harvard Educational Review, English Language Teaching, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, System, TESOL Quarterly and World Englishes.
She has published many chapters in edited books and given plenary talks at various international conferences, including the Asian International Teaching English as a foreign language Conference in of Korea, the Regional English Language Conference in Singapore and the EFL Asian Conference in Turkey.
She served as TESOL Quarterly editor from 1994 to 1999 and has served on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Second Language Writing and TESOL Quarterly. Her interest in English as an international language developed from her extensive work in countries such as Chile, Hong Kong, Hungary, Latvia, Morocco, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and Thailand.
