I am a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University in the United States. As part of my dissertation research, I recently completed a Fulbright Study/Research Grant at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My research interests include English as a lingua franca, L2 English pragmatics instruction, and corpus pragmatics. In all of these areas I am committed to mixed methods research. I have over 15 years of teaching experience in the U.S., China, and Malaysia, including linguistics, academic writing, English language, and language teacher training.