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‘You could make original contributions, just like them!’: supervisory interactions and a doctoral student’s academic identity construction. 50 free copies at: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This newly published open-access paper presents a conceptual framework as well as a methodological procedure for analyzing classroom discourse. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

50 free eprints of this paper are available at: tandfonline.com/eprint/6BDHB7S…

This study drew on interviews with supervisors in Hong Kong universities and investigated master’s thesis supervision in taught postgraduate programs. Its findings underscore the need to reflect critically on the prevalent narratives of supervision. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How do doctoral students promote the value of their research in their theses? This new, open-access paper examines the use of value arguments in 90 doctoral theses in the disciplines of applied linguistics, physics, and psychology. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This newly published paper explores how a professional learning community (PLC) structured around the sharing and discussion of emotional tensions contributed to participating teachers’ identity (re)construction. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This newly published, open-access article presents a multi-level policy analysis of English medium instructional practices, management, and ideologies in Bangladeshi (private) higher education. bit.ly/3E8eOtw

The Editors of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes would like to announce and congratulate the winner of the 2024 Liz Hamp-Lyons Early Career Researcher Award, Dr Phuong Nguyen. The award-winning article is freely available until March 31st, 2026: doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap…

The Editors of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes would like to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2024 Ken Hyland Best Paper Award. sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…. All the award-winning articles are freely available until March 31st, 2026.

Assigning responsibility for retraction is a key rhetorical strategy for communicating retraction stigma in retraction notices. However, the linguistic realization of this strategy remains largely unexplored. This is a first attempt to address the topic. tandfonline.com/eprint/WQKXJEA…

A new open-access paper reporting a study on writing teachers’ emotion(s) and agency in a professional development course onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ij…

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the flagship journal of EAP, is inviting submissions for a new special issue on "Leveraging GenAI in the Development, Adaptation, and Evaluation of EAP Materials". More details can be found at: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

A newly published open-access paper that identifies specific linguacultural competencies required for English as a business lingua franca (BELF) communication. academic.oup.com/eltj/article/d…

This newly published, open-access paper reveals the discord between translingual practices on the ground and monolingual ideologies underlying higher-level EMI policies. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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I'm very pleased to share this new open-access paper published in System. It reports on part of my GRF project on productive teacher questioning in secondary EMI classrooms in Hong Kong. doi.org/10.1016/j.syst…

A newly published, open-access paper co-authored with my PhD student, Mosiur. We have conducted a multilevel analysis to reveal the discrepancies between language policies and practices in the EMI classrooms of four countries. bit.ly/4nf0122

Dr Di Zou, Dr Shaofeng Li, and I are guest-editing a special issue for Computers & Education. If you are interested, here is the call for proposals: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

Just in case someone is interested, a new position is available in my department. More information about the position is available at: jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.php…

I'm pleased to share this new paper on shell nouns and their congruent alternatives in research articles. The paper is open-access at: link.springer.com/article/10.100…