Dr Gu Mingyue is a newly appointed Post-doctoral Fellow in the Key Research Area of Language Education and Literature (English), the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Mingyue received her PhD at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong in 2007. So far Mingyue has eight articles published or in press in edited books and journals. Her research interests include second language learning motivation and identity, teacher beliefs, teacher identities, sociocultural theory and critical discourse analysis.