Ming-i Lydia Tseng received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. She has been teaching and researching in the areas of academic literacy studies, second/foreign language learning and teaching, qualitative research methodology, and discourse analysis (particularly, critical discourse analysis and genre analysis). She has published book chapters, conference papers, and journal articles on academic writing practices, pedagogic discourses and teacher identity, graduate student supervision, and evaluation language in academic genres. Her recent research projects focus on multiliteracies pedagogy and EFL students’ multimodal composing.