I am an Assistant Professor of TESOL in the College of Education at Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou, China. My research intersects applied linguistics, intercultural communication, and language education. My main interests include pragmatics of English as a lingua franca (ELF), intercultural communication, Global Englishes (GE)-informed instruction and teacher education, language attitudes, and corpus-based teaching materials development. I have over 15 years of teaching experience in the U.S., Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, including applied linguistics, TESOL teacher education, academic writing, and English language.

I earned a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University in the United States in 2024 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Education University of Hong Kong. My dissertation research involved a mixed methods quasi-experimental pedagogical intervention based on English as a lingua franca communication strategies. I conducted the research at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, supported by a Fulbright Study/Research Grant. I also hold an MA TESOL from SIT Graduate Institute in the United States.

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