Muhammad Afzaal is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Language Sciences, Shanghai International Studies University, China. His research focuses on various areas, including corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, translation studies, and the integration of language sciences with NLP and big data.Adnan Tahir is a Professor in the Department of English at Emerson University, Multan, Pakistan. His research interests include Applied/Educational Linguistics, corpus linguistics, language teacher education and socialization, professional development, discourse analysis, and gender issues in language teacher socialization.