Joseph Foley is Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of English at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand since June 2006.
Previously, he was Head of English Language in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore where he taught for more than 25 years. More recently he was a Language Specialist with Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, Regional Language Centre (RELC) in Singapore. Professor Foley has taught in all the countries in Southeast Asia as well as Japan, China, Australia and the UK. He has also been advisor to several Ministries of Education and Research fellow in Australia, Japan, Mauritius, Thailand and the UK. He has published widely, mainly in the area of Systemic Linguistics, Language Development and World Englishes. He was for many years been the editor of the RELC Journal and is now editor of The New English Teacher.
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Abstract for Plenary Session: English as a Lingua Franca in Thailand
Abstract for Concurrent Session: Standard Used in Assessing Students’ Competence