Rining WEI (Tony), PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China’s largest Sino-foreign institution. He has supervised over 50 master’s and PhD dissertations covering topics such as English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and individual differences in L2 learning. His areas of research include multilingualism, geronto-linguistics, and quantitative methodology. He has published in journals including Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, English Today, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journalism, Linguistics and Education, System, and World Englishes. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of EAP: Research and Practice (Liverpool University Press). He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSCI-indexed, Cambridge University Press), BMC Psychology (SSCI-indexed) and Journal of Asia TEFL (ESCI-indexed & Scopus-indexed).

To download Dr. Wei's papers (free of charge), please visit his webpages at Academia.edu or ResearchGate.

Dr Wei is interested in working with professional colleagues and postgraduate students on topics in the following broad fields:

Bilingual Education Bilingualism (BEB)

English Education TESOL

English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

Quantitative methods in applied linguistics

Recent papers downloadable from: http://xjtlu.academia.edu/RiningTonyWEI or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rining-Wei (please copy and paste this link onto your browser)

Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) - 2021 to (now)

Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) - 2014 to 2021

Lecturer (part-time), Hang Seng University of Hong Kong - 2013 to 2014

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2012 to 2014

Mathematics Teacher, Nanshan Foreign Language School, Shenzhen - 2001 to 2004

Module Leader for Lng419 Multilingual education and multilingual literacies (for MA Applied Linguistics with specialisation in multilingualism)

Module Leader for Eng411 Dissertation (for MA TESOL)

2015: External examiner for the PhD dissertation ‘Teachers Mandarin Usage in EFL Classrooms in Two Universities in Southeast Mainland China’ (RMIT University, Australia).

Module Leader for Eng 115 English as a Global Language

Module Leader for Eng 216 Bilingualism

Lng419 Multilingual education and multilingual literacies

Eng411 Dissertation

Eng 406 Research Methods

Eng 318 Applied Linguistics

Eng 316 An Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

Eng 302 Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace

Eng 216 Bilingualism

Eng 202 Business Communication

Eng 115 English as a Global Language

Eng 103 Introduction to Linguistics

Lan 003 How Language Works

2024: University-level Honoured Staff, XJTLU.

2022: Distinguished Contribution Award as Trainer in Higher Education, ILEAD, XJTLU.

2021: Extraordinary Contribution Award (特殊贡献奖) in Student Recruitment, Student Admissions and Career Development Office, XJTLU.

Honorary Lecturer, Department of English, University of Liverpool, 2014-now