Siew Imm Tan

Siew Imm TAN is Lecturer and Academic Program Director (Transnational Education Program – Master of TESOL & FLT, Hanoi University, Vietnam) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong, and has taught in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the PRC in diverse disciplines, including TESOL, linguistics, applied linguistics, and communication and media. She speaks English, Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien and Teochew, a great asset in her work in transnational education. Siew Imm compiled the first Malaysian English corpus and views the corpus as an essential tool for theorising language. The author of Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change (Peter Lang, 2013), she has also researched in Singaporean English and Australian Aboriginal English. Her work demonstrates the value of corpus-based transitivity analysis in studying variation in cultural conceptualisations and worldviews. She is currently engaged in a corpus-based project that explores lexical, grammatical and conceptual variations across diverse varieties of English worldwide.