Jariah Mohd Jan Editor

Ali Jalalian Daghigh (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (UM). Prior to joining UM, he was a postdoctoral fellow in English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests lie within (Critical) Discourse Studies, Education as well as Translation Studies. He currently leads an international project on neoliberalization of English language teaching in the global south.

Jariah Mohd Jan is a Professor of Sociolinguistics at the Department of English Language, and was the former Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM). Her main areas of research are Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, women and leadership, and discourse at the workplace. She currently leads the IIRG project on documenting the language and culture of the Kerinchi community in Kuala Lumpur. In 2014, she was awarded with the UM Excellence Award for the category of Excellent Lecturer.

Sheena Kaur is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia (UM). She is currently the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the faculty. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and internationalization of higher education.