Leimin Shi is a lecturer, subject coordinator and researcher at the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. She obtained her Doctor of Education degree from the University of Wollongong in 2015. She has extensive experience in teaching English and Chinese across various universities in China and Australia. Her research interests are mainly focused on the domains of teacher cognition in teaching Chinese and English as foreign or second languages in different contexts. She also investigates the application of Systemic Functional Linguistics and technology in language teaching and learning.