Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona (1998)
Discourse analysis; language and culture; pragmatics and language learning; second/foreign language learning and pedagogy; ESL writing
It’s the Dragon’s Turn: Chinese Institutional Discourses (co-editor)
Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, Chinese Language and discourse, Reflections on English Language Teaching, TESOL Case Studies Series on Interaction and Language Development, Pragmatics and Language Learning, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, and other volumes.