“…Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiatives have been prevalent for decades at institutions throughout the United States and the United Kingdom (Jones & Comprone, 1993;McConlogue et al, 2012;Wingate, 2016;Zawacki & Rogers, 2012), where the majority of students use English as a first language (L1), and in Europe (Boch & Frier, 2012;Dalton-Puffer, 2007;Zuckermann et al, 2012), where English is generally a second language (L2). In recent years, WAC has also gained popularity in Asia (Wu, 2013), notably in Hong Kong, where English L2 students commonly face English as the medium of instruction (Braine & McNaught, 2007;Lughmani et al, 2016).…”