Dr Lawrence Jun Zhang is Professor of Education (Applied Linguistics/TESOL) and Associate Dean (AD) International for the Faculty of Arts and Education. His research programme spans cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural and developmental factors in reading/ biliteracy development, critical reading awareness in language education, metacognition, self-regulated learning (SRL) and reading development in L1 and L2 contexts, bilingual/biliteracy acquisition and bilingual/biliteracy education in primary and secondary schools, and learning and teaching English as a second/foreign language at university settings, the effects of self-regulated reading and writing instruction on bilingual/biliteracy development, emotions in learning and teaching, and teacher identity and cognition in language teacher education.