Siew Imm Tan

Dr. Siew Imm Tan is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Program Director (TNE) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong, alongside MA and BA (Hons) degrees from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her research focuses on contact linguistics, world Englishes, corpus linguistics, and second-language acquisition.

Dr. Tan has taught in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and China, specializing in linguistics, applied linguistics, teacher education, and intercultural communication. She is the author of Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change (2013) and has pioneered corpus-based studies on Malaysian English and Aboriginal English literature. Currently, she analyzes the 1.9-billion-word GloWbE corpus to trace Chinese linguistic influences on global English.

• Research highlights include compiling the first Malaysian English corpus and studying Aboriginal worldviews through literature.
• Recipient of the 2022 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and a National Institute of Education Start-up Grant.

Her work bridges sociolinguistics with applied corpus methods, emphasizing language contact, cultural conceptualizations, and global English variation.