Xinxin Wu is a Professor of Linguistics at Jiangnan University in China. She received her Ph.D. in language and linguistics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests include classroom discourse analysis, conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and language teacher education. She has published over 20 articles on EFL teaching and learning, two translated books, and two co-edited textbooks. Her recent publications have appeared in, for example, Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, System, Discourse Studies, and Language and Education.