Li Li is Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Exeter, UK. She has been involved in English language teaching and research for nearly 20 years in various cultural contexts, and has published widely on language education. She has guest edited the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity, and serves as editorial board member for Classroom Discourse. She is the author of Social Interaction and Teacher Cognition (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and co-editor, with R Wegerif and J C Kaufman, of The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking (Routledge, 2015).