Faculty of Education

Academic literacy;
critical thinking and learner autonomy;
cultural and ideological issues in language education;
history of English language education in China

First language acquisition; word learning; experimental semantics & pragmatics; implicature; bilingualism

Bilingualism; language learning; language and thought

Second language teacher development; sociocultural theories of learning and SLA; community/heritage/minority language acquisition and education

Language and education;
oracy

Second language education; language teacher education; cross-cultural education; language education policy

Second language education; bilingualism

Development of language from a cognitive science perspective; cognitive benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism; early literacy

• Multilingualism
• Multilingual identity
• Metaphor in relation to belief formation and change
• Creativity in language learning
• Language learning motivation
• Language teacher education
• Sociocultural approaches in relation to the above
• Policy in relation to the above