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Peter Crosthwaite

Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures at University of Queensland

About me

Dr Peter Crosthwaite is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, having formerly been Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an MA in TESOL from the University of London and a Masters and Ph.D in applied linguistics from the University of Cambridge.

His areas of research include corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and the use of English for general and specific academic purposes. His work regularly appears in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and he has lengthy experience developing and teaching into EAP courses around the world.