Prof. Honggang Liu received a PhD in sociolinguistics from Peking University in 2012. Currently, he is a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University. He is also an external PhD supervisor at Griffith University, Australia. In addition, he is the associate editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He is now a principal investigator of a project on teacher resilience financed by the China Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation (2021–2024). His research interests are in foreign language teacher education, the psychology of foreign language learning, the psychology of foreign language teachers, social class, and English language learning.