The English in Southeast Asia (ESEA) Conference series began in 1996 as a collaboration between NIE, NTU (Singapore), Universiti Malaya and UBD. Since then, the group of collaborating institutions has expanded to become truly representative of Southeast Asia:

• National Institute of Education (Singapore)

• University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

• Universiti Brunei Darussalam

• Curtin University (Perth, Australia)

• Ateneo de Manila University (Quezon City, the Philippines)

• Hong Kong Baptist University

• Sanata Dharma University (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

• King Mongkut’s University of Technology (Thonburi, Thailand)

• Waikato University (New Zealand)

• University of Macao (Macao)

• Hangzhou Normal University (Hangzhou, China)