Dr. Ning Liu graduated from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where the focus of his doctoral work was on contest discourse studies and systemic functional linguistics. The present work is also based on personal experience, as he has participated in several teaching competitions, providing him insight on these discourse events from an insider’s perspective and strengthened by contextual and analytical ... Read moreapproaches. His previous publications focus on English language education in the Chinese context. Dr. Derek Irwin is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.  He specializes in systemic functional linguistics and applied linguistics in general. His most recent critical work focuses on language modelling, grammatical resources for lexical movement across languages, pedagogical applications of genre theory, and literary textual analysis. He is also a co-author of several writing guides for post-secondary students.   Show Less