Jun Liu is Professor and Head in the Department of English at the University of Arizona, and Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona (CIUA).

Dr. Liu's research interests include curriculum and standards development and syllabus design, teacher education, classroom-based second language learning and teaching, and second language reading and writing. He has published in TESOL Quarterly, ELT Journal, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, Language and Intercultural Communication, and Educational Research Quarterly, among others. He is the lead translator for "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment" by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (2008), and also key designer for "Standards for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages" by Hanban (2007). Dr. Liu' latest publications include the book "Teaching English in China: New Perspectives, Approaches and Standards" by the Continuum Publishing (2007), "Asian students’ Classroom Communication Patterns in US Universities" by the Greenwood Publishing Group in 2001, and "Peer Response in Second Language Writing Classrooms" co-authored and published by University of Michigan Press in 2002. He is editor of the peer-refereed journal “Review of Applied Linguistics in China”, and also co-editor of Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers.

A recipient of The 1999 TESOL (Teachers of English to the Speakers of Other Languages) Newbury House Award for Excellence in Teaching, and co-founder and Past Chair of Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL Caucus (NNEST), he served on the TESOL Board of Directors serving as Director at Large (2001-2004), and was appointed as TESOL Representative in China in 2004. As the first Asian TESOL President (2006-2007) in TESOL’s 41-year history, Dr. Liu is now Vice President of Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), headquartered in Beijing, China.