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Professor Aek Phakiti is Professor in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. He earned his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne in 2005. His primary research specializations encompass TESOL, language testing and assessment, and second language learning strategies. Phakiti has made significant contributions to the field through authorship and editorship of key publications, including Assessment for Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press, 2024, co-authored with Constant Leung), Language Testing and Assessment: From Theory to Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025), Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Resource (Bloomsbury, editor), and The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, co-editor). His scholarly work has accumulated over 5,000 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting substantial impact in applied linguistics and language education.