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CREA Academic Visitors

View the current team of Academic Visitors for the Centre for Research in Education in Asia (CREA).

Academic Visitors may be with us for a few months or up to a year, but they are all leading engaging and important research projects within the Department of Education. You can read about the work of current and former Academic Visitors below.

Current Academic Visitors

Yinli Mo

Yinlin Mo is a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Wuhan University of Technology. The research interests include children’s biliteracy development; family policy in helping children to learn a second language; effective second language teaching and learning at a tertiary level.

Past Academic Visitors

Jie Hou

Jie is an associate professor in the College of Foreign Languages at Shangdong Agricultural University.

Jie's research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and identity. Foreign language teachers in Chinese universities need to address various challenges and achieve professional development in curriculum reforms, so Jie draws on sociocultural theory and teacher cognition to interpret how the teachers exercise agency to make choices between teaching and research, and adopt appropriate actions in response to educational reforms to construct professional development paths that suit their own needs and characteristics.

Yuanyan Hu

Yuanyan Hu is an Associate Professor in the College of Foreign Studies at Nanjing Agricultural University. Her research interests include TESOL pedagogy, cooperative learning and peer collaboration, blended teaching in EFL classrooms, eco-linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, and cultural heritage studies

Jing Lyu

Jing is an Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Studies, South China Agricultural University (SCAU). His research focuses on lexicography, corpus linguistics, and translation technology.

Haroun Melgani

Haroun Melgani is Associate Professor and Lecturer at the Department of English, the Faculty of Arts and Foreign Languages, University of Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria. He is interested in Variationist Sociolinguistics, Historical sociolinguistics, Berber (Tamazight) linguistics, Educational Sociolinguistics, ethnic networks and language change in Chaouia, and Family Language Policy.

Guangxiao Shi

Guangxiao is a professor in the Department of English (School of Languages and Literature) at Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai. He is interested in English teaching theories and practices, specifically teacher development, teacher beliefs, and curriculum design.

Qian Tao

Qian is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) where she has worked since 1996. Prior to her current position as an academic visitor in the University of Bath, she held academic posts as a visiting scholar at McMaster University (Canada) and University of California, Berkeley (US). After receiving in-career training at National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), she was awarded her Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching.

She now teaches multiple English language courses at Shanghai International Studies University and is engaged in curriculum design, staff coordination and departmental administrative work as Director of the English Teaching Division of SIRPA in Shanghai International Studies University.

Her research interests include:

  • EMI theory and practice
  • Teachers’ professional development
  • Multilingual cultural identity in education
  • Area and gender studies
  • Comparative education

Xigang Yang

Xigang is an assistant professor in the School of Foreign Languages and the director of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Nanjing Forestry university.

His research interests include applied linguistics, translation and teaching methodology. He also teaches English public speaking and debating in his school.

Yin Yu

Yin Yu is a PhD candidate from the University of Göttingen. Her research interests include family language policy, homescape/familyscape, child agency, and family multiliteracies.

Haifeng Wang

Haifeng Wang is an Associate Professor in the Foreign Language School at Shandong Jianzhu University.His research interests include applied linguistics, Corpus-Based Translation Studies and SLA. He also teaches English in his university, and he is a postgraduate tutor.

Weihong Wang

During her stay, Dr. Wang completed a research project on Children’s Language Development in Chinese Families: Urban Middle Class as a Case (CSC No. 2018064115052) under the supervision of Prof. Xiao Lan Curdt-Christansen. The reports of the project are and will be published on Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning and Current Issues of Language Planning respectively. She also has relevant studies published on the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (with Prof. Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen) and English Today in 2019.

Yali Wang

Yali Wang is a Professor and Vice Dean of the Teather’s College at Xi’an University. Her research focuses on Education Policy and Home-School Cooperation.

Zhan Wang

Zhan Wang is from Shandong Women’s University. Her interests lie in a Comparative Study on Gender Differences in Media Literacy: Communication Strategies for Effective Education between UK and Chinese Universities.

Enquiries

CREA Research Centre chinaedcentre@bath.ac.uk