Ken Hyland

Born19 November 1951 (age 74)

Knownfor

Second language writing

Fields

Ken Hyland

Born	(1951-11-19) 19 November 1951 (age 74)
Alma mater	University of Warwick
Known for	Second language writing
Scientific career
Fields	Second language acquisition Second language writing
Institutions	University of East Anglia
Thesis	Hedging in scientific research articles

Website	research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/ken-hyland

Ken Hyland is a British linguist. He is currently a professor of applied linguistics in education at the University of East Anglia.^[1]

Hyland is an applied linguist in the field of academic discourse, second language writing, and English for Academic Purposes, and has published more than 30 books and 320 articles. Google Scholar shows him to be one of the most cited researchers in Applied Linguistics.^[2] According to the Stanford/Elsevier analysis of the Scopus database, he has been the world's most influential scholar in language and linguistics from 2021 to 2025 and Research.com ranks Ken as the 116th most influential scholar in Humanities and social sciences globally.^{[citation needed]}

He is founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes^[3] and was co-editor of Applied Linguistics.^[4]

Books

Authored

Hyland, K. (2016) Teaching and Researching Writing. 3rd edition. London: Routledge.
Hyland, K. (2015) Academic publishing: issues and challenges in the production of knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hyland, K. (2015). Academic Written English. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Hyland, K. (2012). Disciplinary Identities: Individuality and Community in Academic Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge Applied Linguistics.
Hyland, K. (2009). Teaching and Researching Writing. 2nd edition. London: Longman.
Hyland, K. (2009). Academic Discourse: English in a Global Context. London: Continuum.
Hyland, K. (2006). English for Academic Purposes: An Advanced Resource Book. London: Routledge.
Hyland, K. (2005). Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing. London: Continuum.
Hyland, K. (2004). Genre and Second Language Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Hyland, K. (2004). Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Hyland, K. (2003). Second Language Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Awarded Honorable Mention for the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize, Modern Languages Association].
Hyland, K. (2002). Teaching and Researching Writing. London: Longman.
Hyland, K. (2000). Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing. London: Longman
Hyland, K. (1998). Hedging in Scientific Research Articles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.^[5]

Edited

Hyland, K. (ed.) (2017). The Essential Hyland. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Wong, L. & Hyland, K. (eds.) (2017). Faces of English Education: Students, Teachers and Pedagogy. London: Routledge.
Hyland, K. (ed.) (2017). Academic Writing: critical readings vol 1–2. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Hyland, K & Shaw, P. (eds.) (2016). The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes. London: Routledge.
Hyland, K. & Wong, L. (Eds.) Innovation and Change in Language Education. London: Routledge.
Hyland, K. (Ed.) (2013). Discourse Studies Reader. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Hyland, K. & Sancho Guinda, C. (Eds.) (2013). Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hyland, K., Chau M. H. & Handford, M. (Eds.) (2012). Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum.
Hyland, K & Paltridge, B. (Eds.) (2011). Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
Hyland, K. & Diani, G. (Eds.) (2009). Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Setting. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.
Hyland, K. & Bondi, M. (Eds.) (2006). Academic Discourse Across Disciplines. Frankfort: Peter Lang.
Hyland, K. & Hyland, F. (Eds.) (2006). Feedback in Second Language Writing: Contexts and Issues. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Candlin, C. & Hyland, K. (Eds.) (1999). Writing: Texts, Processes and Practice. London: Longman.
Berry, R., Asker, B., Hyland, K. & Lam, M. (Eds.) (1999). Language Analysis, Description and Pedagogy. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Press.^[5]

v t e Second language writing
General	Second language writing
Subfields	Academic writing Composition studies Language complexity
Perspectives	Cognitive and linguistic theories of composition Dynamic Systems Theory Goal theory Rhetorical genre theory Sociocultural theory Systemic functional linguistics
Notable researchers	Bardovi-Harlig Crossley Cumming Hyland Ivanić Kormos Larsen-Freeman Manchón Matsuda Ortega Polio Schmitt Storch Verspoor Wray
Journals	Assessing Writing Journal of Second Language Writing Language Learning Reading and Writing TESOL Quarterly The Modern Language Journal Writing Systems Research Written Communication
Associations	European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing European Second Language Association
Computational tools	Coh-Metrix L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat
National	United States France BnF data Czech Republic Netherlands Latvia Korea Israel Belgium
Academics	ORCID Scopus
People	DDB
Other	IdRef Yale LUX

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