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Dr Xiaojun Lu

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Second language writing
  • Methods in second language writing process research

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Ying Wang

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • ¸£Àû×ÅÆ¬ Englishes
  • English as a lingua franca
  • language ideologies and identities

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Ying Zheng PhD

Professor

Research interests

  • Psychometrics and test validation; Human scoring vs. machine scoring; Statistics in applied l…
  • Mandarin exams in the UK school system, including A-Level and GCSE exams; Mandarin Chinese te…
  • Learner motivation and language teaching pedagogy; ESL/EFL learner characteristics and test p…

Accepting applications from PhD students

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