Dr Ha Phan

Research Interests

Language - Culture - Pedagogy - Identity

English Teacher Education

English as an International Language

Writing

International Students and International Education

Professional Associations

• Asia TEFL, TESOL

Community Service

• Invited Keynote/Plenary/Featured Speech and Public Lectures
• Invited speaker for the 1st "Academic Publishing in ESL: An Introductory Workshop" 3-4 December, 2007, The EFL University, Hyderabad, India.
• Invited speaker for the 1st "Voices of Asia Symposium", 28-30 August, 2007, Universiti of Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia.
• Invited speaker (with the speech entitled Examining the foreignness of EFL global textbooks: issues and proposals from the Vietnamese classroom) for the 2nd International ELT Materials Symposium and Conference, February 5-9, 2007, Perak, Malaysia http://www.micelt.com.my/html/event.htm
• Invited speaker (with the speech entitled Questioning the validity and appropriacy of introducing Communicative Language Teaching as the best teaching approach in TESOL teacher training courses) for the 6th International MICELT Conference, May 8-10, 2006, Melaka, Malaysia. http://www.micelt.com.my/html/event.htm
• Plenary speaker (with the speech entitled The role of morality in teacher identity formation: the case of Vietnamese teachers of English, 2nd international Asian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Journal Conference Task-based language teaching: a superior approach or temporary trend? in Busan, Korea, April, 14-16, 2006
• Public lecture entitled Towards a critical notion of appropriation of English as an international language at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, November 2005
• Public lecture entitled Trained in the West: how we see ourselves as teachers of English at Assumption University, Thailand, June, 2006
• Public lecture entitled English as an international language: A critical look at Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, April 2007
• Other Key Academic and Community Services Activities
• Serve as the Associate Editor of Teachers Edition, now a refereed journal in the area of English Language Teaching, published by ELI (English Language Institute), USA.
• Serve in the international editorial board of the peer-reviewed Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society http://www.iele.au.edu/ajlcs.html
• Serve as one of the Associate Editors of the online international peer-reviewed Asian EFL Journal (English as a Foreign Language) http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/
• Serve on the advisor board of the online international peer-reviewed Linguistics Journal http://www.linguistics-journal.com/
• Serve as the regional advisor for the online international peer-reviewed Journal of English as an International Language http://www.eilj.com/sitemap.php
• Serve as co-editor for the volume on Multilevel and Mixed Ability in the Classroom Practice Series, TESOL Publications (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp, USA
• Serve in the Scientific Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, Zejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 13th -15th, April, 2007. http://www.shixu.com/institute-conference/
• Phan Le Ha has been active in projects related to creative writing and developing materials for reading classes in Asian classrooms. She was the convenor for the 4th Creative Writing Workshop (CWW) in Hanoi, 22nd-28th November 2006. CWW has been made an international event and the last three workshops were held in Thailand, Malaysia and China. Most of the materials developed by the participants in the previous workshops have been published by Pearson Malaysia

Supervision

I have supervised Master research projects on participation in Australian tutorials of international students from Asia, identity formation of European international students studying in Australia, and cultural constraints in English language teaching in Bangladesh universities.

I am supervising PhD projects on English language teachers' professional development and identity formation, and pedagogy for English as an international language

Publications

1. Books Baurain, B. & Phan Le Ha (Eds). (To appear in 2008). Multilevel/Mixed Ability Volume, Classroom Practice Series. Washington D.C, US: TESOL Publications. Phan Le Ha (2008). Teaching English as an international language: Identity, negotiation and resistance. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (UK). Phan Van Que, Phan Le Ha & Duong Ky Duc (to appear in 2008). English in different cultures: issues and implications for Vietnam. Hanoi: The National University Press (in press to December).

2. Journal Publications (peer-refereed)

Phan Le Ha (special issue, 2009). EIL, Asian, Western: how I see myself as an international student. Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication. Publisher: Multilingual Matters, UK Phan Le Ha (2007, the editors asked for permission to republish this article, which appeared on issues 7, 3 of Asian EFL Journal). Toward a critical notion of appropriation of English as an international language. Journal of English as an International Language, 1, pp. 48-60. http://www.eilj.com/Journal_English_International_Language_Vol_1.pdf Phan Le Ha (2007). Australian-trained Vietnamese teachers of English: culture and identity formation. Journal of Language Culture and Curriculum, 20 (1). Publisher: Multilingual Matters, UK Viete, R. & Phan Le Ha (Special Issue, September 2007). The growth of voice: expanding possibilities for representing self in research writing. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6 (2), 39-57. Publisher: The University of Waikato, New Zealand Phan Le Ha & Phan Van Que (2006). Vietnamese educational morality and the discursive construction of English language teacher identity. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 1(2). Publisher: Multilingual Matters, UK Phan Le Ha (2006). Readers Respond: Plagiarism and overseas students: stereotypes again? ELT Journal, 60(1). Oxford University Press, UK. Phan Le Ha (2005). Munbys Need Analysis Model and ESP. Asian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Journal, 7(4):http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/pta_october_07_plh.php Phan Le Ha (2005). Toward a critical notion of appropriation of English as an international language. Asian EFL ((English as a Foreign Language) Journal, 7(3). This article ranked number 1 and 3 in top 20 articles in Asian EFL Journal, from 12/2004 10/2005. http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/EFL_sites_search.php Phan Le Ha (2004). University classrooms of English in Vietnam: contesting the stereotypes, ELT Journal, 58(1): 50-57, Oxford University Press, UK. Phan Le Ha (2001). How do culturally situated notions of polite forms influence the way Vietnamese postgraduate students write academic English in Australia? Australian Journal of Education, 45(3): 296-308

3. Book Chapters

Phan Le Ha (expected 2008). English as an international language: voices of international students. In Sharifian, F. (Ed). Current perspectives in English as an international language. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Phan Le Ha (2007). Questioning the validity and appropriacy of presenting Communicative Language Teaching as the best teaching approach in TESOL teacher training courses. In J. Mukundan, S. Menon, & A.A. Hussin (eds). ELT Matters 3: Developments in English language learning and teaching. Selangor: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.

Truong Bach Le & Phan Le Ha (to appear in 2008). Examining the foreignness of EFL global textbooks: issues and proposals from the Vietnamese classroom. In J. Mukundan (ed.) English language teaching materials 2. Malaysia: Pearson Malaysia.

Phan Le Ha (2005). Toward a critical notion of appropriation of English as an international language. In Robertson, P., Dash, P., and Jung, J. (Eds.) English language learning in the Asian context. 2nd edition. The Asian EFL Journal Press.

4. Other Journal Publications

Phan Le Ha (2006). Communicative Language Teaching: some thoughts to share. Teachers Edition, March issue