I remember the very first time I heard about hedging. It was during my master’s degree in the UK. In one particular class, where around 70% of the students were Chinese, our professor spent nearly 40 minutes trying to teach us how to hedge in our English writing.

When I think about academic English writing, it is not just the topic of my PhD research – it is also a deeply personal journey that has shaped who I am: from a student to a teacher, and now a PhD researcher.

Dr Nashid Nigar & Prof Alex Kostogriz, Monash University Reimagining EAL/D Education: From Standard Norms to Sensory Pedagogies As shown...

A/Prof Julie Choi has just written a book called ‘Kimchi is for Everyone’, an exploration of personal identity and continuous growth. Dr Mobina Sahraee Juybari talked to Julie about the experiences that informed the book.

Our world has become very interconnected. There are more speakers of English as an additional language than speakers considered to use

Today I was looking at a list of oxymorons. It was a playful list that had been made for English language learning purposes.

I read a Japanese story a few years ago that made me feel very upset. It was about a mother who was carrying a baby on her back. She needed

Recently, I had a blast from the past when my former Iranian English teacher, Mitti, kindly sent me a few of my English writings from about 17 years ago. It was both eye-opening and quite hilarious reading a very young me trying to express myself in English. First of all, let me tell you about Mitti. She had this magical quality where she encouraged us to speak English in class but never gave us the side-eye if we threw in a Persian word here and there. Looking at the youthfu