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Mark Teng is an associate professor in Applied Linguistics at Macao Polytechnic University. He received education in Japan, Mainland China, Australia, and Hong Kong. His main focus is on L2 vocabulary learning, reading and writing. In terms of teaching, Mark has extensive experiences in language teaching and training pre-service teachers, especially in using GenAI in recent years. 

 

Mark performs well in teaching and research. Students were of different ages and nationality backgrounds: Malaysia, Greek, Thailand, Japan, Mainland China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, etc. He was the recipient of the 2017 Best Paper Award from the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL), as well as the Teaching Excellence Awards by the Education Bureau of China (2015). His published work has appeared in many international journals. His recent monographs were published by Cambridge, Springer, Routledge, and Bloomsbury. His co-edited volume appeared in Palgrave and De Gruyter Mouton. He has also guested edited several special issues for international journals. 

 

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Qualification: PhD in Applied Linguistics

(Hong Kong Baptist University) 

MA in TESOL and Foreign Language Education

(University of Canberra)

BA in Foreign Language Education 

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Current Employment: Associate professor, Faculty of Languages and Translation,

Macao Polytechnic University, Macao SAR. 

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      Editor-in-chief, International Journal of TESOL Studies (IJTS) (Scopus, Q1)

      Editor-in-chief, Digital Applied Linguistics (DAL)

      Editors-in-chief, Applied Language Sciences 

       Co-editor, Reading in a Foreign Language (SCOPUS, ESCI, Q1)

       C-editor, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT)

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Award: Lifetime-top 0.5% in the specialty of vocabulary learning, and prior 5 years-top 0.5% in all fields of social sciences and 0.2% in the field of linguistics, according to ScholarGPS (2025) https://scholargps.com/

 

Top 2% most-cited researchers (single year) worldwide (2021–2025) and career-long impact (2024-2025) in the area of Language and Linguistics by Stanford University. https://top2percentscientists.com/

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Prior work experience:

Beijing Normal University 

University of Macau

Hong Kong College of Technology, Institute of Higher Education

Hong Kong Baptist University 

Nanning University, China