The “English in Southeast Asia” conference series is the result of collaboration between the National Institute of Education (Singapore), the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), the University of Brunei Darussalam, Curtin University (Perth, Australia), Ateneo de Manila University (Quezon City, the Philippines), Hong Kong Baptist University, Santa Dharma University (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand), Waikato University (New Zealand) and Macau University (Macau).