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• September 2024: Recipient of 2024 Faculty of Humanities Engaged Scholar Award.

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• July 2024: Continued a second term as Academic Advisor of the Intercultural Studies and Practice Program, Division of Continuing Studies (2023-2025)

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• June 2024: Appointed to serve as Chair of the Senate Committee on Learning and Teaching, UVic (2024-2025)

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• June 2024: Invited to serve as Chair of the adjudication committee of SSHRC's Insight Grants competition (2024-2025)

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• September 2023. Recipient of 2023 Faculty of Humanities Research Excellence Award 

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• ​July 2023. Invited to serve on the adjudication committee of SSHRC's Insight Grants competition (2023-2024).

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• March 2023. Invited to serve as an External Reviewer of UVic's Department of Curriculum & Instruction (2023).

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• ​June 2022. Invited to serve on the adjudication committee of SSHRC's Insight Grants competition (2022-2023)

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• June-July 2022. ​Served on Carleton University's MA-TEAL program review committee 

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• September 2021. Invited to serve on the adjudication committee of SSHRC's Insight Grants competition (2021-2022)

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• April 2021. Awarded an Insight Grant (2021-2026) by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada.

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• March 2021. Elected to serve on Senate for a three-year term (2021-2024).

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• March 2021. Breaking the Language Barrier. Times Colonist, p. A5.

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• March 2021. Breaking the Language Barrier. UVic News.

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• January 2021. Launched the SLEEC (Syrians Learning English for Employment in Canada) program.

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• April 2018. Featured in the NNEST of the Month Blog, TESOL International.

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• December 2017. My teaching article "Three ideas for implementing learner reflection" made the 9th spot on Faculty Focus's Top 17 of 2017 Most Popular Teaching and Learning Articles of the year!

 

• May 2017. Awarded BC-TEAL 50 at 50.

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• March 2017. Awarded an Insight Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada.

 

• February 2017. Selected to serve on the University of Alberta's President Visiting Committee to review its Faculty of Extension.

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• December 2016. Selected to be the recipient of the 2017 TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST Issues. TESOL International Association.

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• December 2016. Selected as the Guest Editor for the TESL Canada Journal Special Issue: The Shifting Landscape of Professional Self-Development for ELT Professionals. 

 

• July 2015. Started serving a third term on the Grants Program Committee, Council of Writing Program Administrators.

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• May 2015. Elected to the Board of Director of TESL Canada Federation and to serve as Chair of its Professional Development Committee.

 

• December 2014. My teaching article “Students riding on coattails during group work? Five simple ideas to try” made Faculty Focus’s list of the Top 14 Articles of 2014! 

 

• July 2014. Mentioned in "By the numbers." University Affairs.

 

• March 2014. Recipient of 2014 Humanities Teaching Excellence Award.

 

• November 2013. Since my arrival at UVic in 2006, I have run/implemented 239 EAP (English for Academic Purposes) workshop units (over 170 workshop units in the past three years).

 

• October 2013. Accepted the invitation to extend my service on the Editorial Advisory Panel of Oxford’s ELT Journal.

 

• June 2013. “Results from IELTS Speaking Test online now.” UVic Internal Research Newsletter (Summer 2013 Edition). © University of Victoria 2013.

 

• May 31, 2013. Quoted in “Nothing about us, without us: How the new credo for community-engaged research is making a difference both in communities and at university,” University Affairs.

 

• May 23, 2013. Academic Advisor, UVic’s Golden Key Chapter. 

 

• April 10, 2013. “iLanguaging App Developed by Applied Linguistics Research Team.” UVic Internal Research Newsletter (Spring 2013 Edition). © University of Victoria 2012.

 

• January 16, 2013. Mentioned in “How open courses are changing the modern university,” University Affairs.

 

• January 10, 2013. iPhone app “iLanguaging” officially launched!

 

• July 17, 2012. “Research in Applied Linguistics to Benefit Second-Language Teaching, Learning, and Program Development.” UVic Internal Research Newsletter (Summer 2012 Edition). © University of Victoria 2012.

 

• April 16, 2012. The local chair and coordinator for CAAL/ACLA 2013, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2013. 

 

• October 17, 2011. I accepted the invitation to join the Editorial Advisory Panel of Oxford's ELT Journal.

 

• June 19, 2011. “Learning to Talk the Talk” in a community report titled “Locally Relevant, Internationally Relevant,” Times Colonist, page A9. 

 

• April 20, 2011. My article “Key Concepts and Theories in TEAL: Language Learner Strategies” was featured in the inaugural issue of SHARE, TESL Canada’s e-Magazine that serves over 7,500 ESL teaching professionals across Canada.

 

• March 18, 2011. My first blog post “Seven Tips for Teaching Speaking for Academic Purposes at the Graduate Level” appeared on Oxford University Press ELT Global Blog.

 

• December 2010. “Two SSHRC Grants Awarded and an IELTS Grant - Dr. Li-Shih Huang.” UVic Internal Research Newsletter. © University of Victoria 2011. 

 

• October 15, 2010. Students, instructors differ widely over language abilities, study finds. Academica’s Top Ten News.

 

• October 12, 2010. “Students, profs differ widely over language competency.” UVic News.

 

• April 7, 2010. Regular columnist for BC TEAL’s new “Key Concepts and Theories in TEAL” column.