Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin was Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada from 2018-2024. Currently she is Chair Professor of Language, Literacy and Social Semiotics in Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. Dr. Lin has been at the forefront of English language education and critical literacies since the late 1990s when she started working on classroom research projects in schools in Hong Kong. She has published widely on second language education, discourse analysis, trans/languaging (TL), trans-semiotizing (TS), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and critical media literacies. Over her career, she has co/published over 200 publications including 9 research books with over 13,600 citations and an impressive h-index of 58 and an i-10 index of 143 (Google Scholar). Dr. Lin’s leadership and mentoring has profoundly shaped the professional lives of doctoral students and emergent scholars both in Asia and Canada.

Angel M. Y. Lin is featured in the list of the world’s top 1% most widely cited scientists published by Stanford University in 2024, representing global recognition of the impact of her scholarship. (Scientists at Stanford University publish annual data of the top 1% of the world’s most-cited scientists in various fields. The Stanford ranking is based on the bibliometric information (citations) in the Scopus database which includes more than 180,000 researchers doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.4).

Language Across the Curriculum (LAC), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Academic literacies

Discourse analysis, narrative inquiry, qualitative research methodology

Panel Member, Humanities Panel, Research Assessment Exercise, University Grants Council, Hong Kong

Co-Chief Editor, Language Policy (International Research Journal)