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Liu Shuyuan is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, where she provides instruction in undergraduate and graduate-level courses on English academic communication and Global English. Her research interests include English as a lingua franca (ELF), intercultural pragmatics, sociocultural theory, and study abroad. She has first-authored papers published and forthcoming in Foreign Language Annals and the Journal of Pragmatics, and has served as a reviewer for Foreign Language Annals and the TESOL International Convention. She is currently working on her dissertation which investigates the multimodality, spatiality, and sociocultural genesis of ELF pragmatics in synchronous online academic communication.