Quang N. Nguyen is the Founding Director of the Center for Languages and Technology (CLT) at Saigon International University (SIU), where he orchestrates pioneering initiatives in language education, artificial intelligence, and educational technology. A dual valedictorian of Curtin University (Australia) and Fresenius University (Germany), Nguyen is internationally esteemed for his intellectual rigor, cosmopolitan vision, and transformative contributions to global scholarship.
He is the originator of the Five-Dimensional Affordance Framework, encompassing Perceptibility, Valence, Compositionality, Normativity, and Intentionality, a paradigm that redefines AI-mediated language learning, ecological assessment, and social justice in English-medium instruction. Nguyen is also the conceptual architect of Dogme 2.0, an avant-garde, affordance-driven pedagogy that extends Thornbury’s Dogme ELT into rhizomatic, technology-enhanced learning ecologies.
His oeuvre traverses deconstructionist language education, educational psychology, and radical/critical/liberal pedagogy, with influential articles in TESOL Journal, TESL-EJ, JALT CALL Journal, and Language & Education. As a member of the editorial boards of TESL-EJ and a regular reviewer for leading international journals, he shapes the contours of contemporary radical education.
Nguyen’s distinguished career has been recognized with the International Luminary Award for Researcher of the Year (2022), the Award of Merit conferred by the Prime Minister of Vietnam, and the Ho Chi Minh City Honorary Badge, underscoring his stature as a scholar-innovator whose work bridges Eastern and Western intellectual traditions while advancing educational excellence worldwide.