Andy Kirkpatrick is Chair Professor of English as an International Language at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and Director of the Institute’s Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Curtin University in Australia.
He has been involved in language education as a teacher of English for many years in Germany, Japan, China, Canada and Hong Kong, and has published widely in areas of language in education. His best known work is on the global spread of English, colonialism and language policy, critical applied linguistics, critical approaches to TESOL, plagiarism, and popular culture and identity