Tamas Kiss
Tamas Kiss works as an Associate Professor at Sunway University, Centre for English Language Studies, in Malaysia and also an Honorary Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in China. He has been involved with language teacher education programmes in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and South East Asia. He has delivered one-off talks and directed longer, intensive teacher development courses in more than 20 countries including Hungary, the Philippines, Lithuania, Pakistan, Iraq, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ukraine, Mexico, Nepal, etc. by invitation of universities, language teacher organizations, cultural institutions, or international publishing houses. His main research interests include language pedagogy, language teacher education, creativity, intercultural communication, the link between complex dynamic systems and education, and the role of culture in language teaching materials. He co-authored Creativity and English Language Teaching: From inspiration to implementation (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) with Alan Maley. His latest projects include Developing intercultural learning materials (forthcoming, Routledge) with Freda Mishan, and a co-edited volume with the title Critical pedagogies and practices in English language learning and teaching: Foundations, practices, and possibilities (forthcoming, MELTA-University Sains Malaysia Press) with Joanna Joseph Jeyaraj and David Perrodin.