Hung Bui holds a PhD in TESOL. He was awarded a bachelor's degree in English language teaching by National University of Vietnam, and then a master's degree in TESOL by Victoria University, Australia. He is now a faculty member at Department of Foreign Language Studies at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. He is in charge of the research affairs of the department He used to be the faculty dean and vice at several colleges and universities in Vietnam. He has been invited to make keynote and plenary talks at many international conferences in Asia. His research interests are diverse, including cognitive linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, L2 writing, language pedagogy, teacher education, cooperative learning, language planning and policy. and socio-cultural theory. He has many papers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. His research profiles can be found at ORICID ID: 0000-0003-3468-4837 and ResearcherID: Q-7685-2019.(ed7ff210-0143-428c-8f18-cee1abd4cbe8)