Autor: Lai Pak-Sang

Pak-sang Lai was a secondary school teacher and then a lecturer in teacher education, joining the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 1995 until retirement. He has taught and researched public affairs and education, and now serves as expert consultant on public policy for education and on education in schools. He has published on reproduction politics in bilingual education.Michael Byram taught languages in secondary school and adult education. At Durham University since 1980, now Professor Emeritus, he has researched the education of linguistic minorities and foreign language education. His most recent book is From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship (Multilingual Matters) and he is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.