Rate My Professor Minglin Li

Dr. Minglin Li is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Educational Linguistics in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. As an English language teacher, TESOL educator, and researcher, she teaches courses in English language, linguistics, second language acquisition, and teaching. Li supervises Higher Degree Research students in the areas of TESOL and language education policy. Her career includes prior affiliations with the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, where she advanced her expertise in TESOL teacher education.

Li's research specializations include educational linguistics, TESOL, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, TESOL teacher education and curriculum studies, and language education policy and planning, with particular focus on the enactment of policies in Chinese primary schools and the role of EFL teachers. Key publications feature "Beyond the Curriculum: A Chinese Example of Issues Facing Transnational Education in the UK" (TESOL Quarterly, 2011, cited over 100 times); "Power relations in the enactment of English language education policies in a Chinese primary school" (Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017, cited 27 times); "EFL teachers and English language education in the PRC: Are they the policy makers?" (2010, cited 88 times); Freeman and Li, "'We are a ghost in the class.' First Year International Students' Expectations of Communication in Australian Classrooms" (Journal of International Students, 2019, cited 66 times); Li, "Accounting for Classroom Curriculum" (Springer, 2016); Choy, Singh, and Li, "Trans-Cultural, Trans-Language Practices: Potentialities for Redesigning Diverse Pedagogies" (Education Sciences, 2017); and Kitson and Li, "Exploring challenges and supports for writing in Standard Australian English for EAL students" (2023). With research cited over 280 times, her work impacts understandings of teacher agency, policy implementation, and international education challenges.