Xueting Ban

Tutor

  • Institute for Language Education | Moray House School of Education and Sport

Contact details

  • Moray House School of Education and Sport

Background

Xueting Ban is a current PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh.

Her research interests include applied linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, language testing, ELF, and teacher evaluation.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts- English Education, Liaocheng University (2015-2019)

Master of Arts- Education International, The University of Manchester (2019-2020)

Doctoral program- Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh (2021- till now)

Responsibilities & affiliations

She served as a managing editor for the ELTED Journal from April 2023 to May 2024 and is still working as a member of the Editorial Review Board.

 

Postgraduate teaching

Tutor at the Institute for Language Education

PGT Course Teaching: 

  • The Sources of Knowledge: Understanding and Analysing Research Literature
  • Conceptualising research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis

Dissertation Supervisor for MSc Language Education, MSc TESOL, and MSc Language and Intercultural Communication.

 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Areas of interest for supervision

Dissertation Supervisor for MSc Language Education, MSc TESOL, and MSc Language and Intercultural Communication.

 

Current research interests

Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics, Language Testing, ELT, and Teacher Evaluation

Past research interests

Internationalisation of Higher Education, UK International Education Policies, International Student Recruitment, and Student Mobility

Project activity

  • Covid and Chinese and East Asian University Students in the UK: Safety, Security, and Communication | Co-investigator

Project link: Http://studentsscuk.wixsite.com/online/the-project

Publication link: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/covid-19-incidents-against-chinese-and-east-asian-students-in-the-uk(665b5747-4da5-45f3-b1be-fb0924cb04e3).html

  • Volunteering in the UK and China | Research assistant

Project link: https://www.mci.manchester.ac.uk/research/ongoing-research-projects/volunteering/

Conference details

XVIII CercleS Conference 2024: Multilingualism and the Anglosphere | Durham University, UK | Sep 12-14, 2024 | Presenter: Xueting Ban | A longitudinal study of international GTAs' pragmatic transfer into teacher language in UK university classrooms.

- Link: https://www.dur.ac.uk/departments/centres/foreign-language-study/cercles-2024/

The 12th European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL 2024) | SOAS & University College London, UK | July 11-15, 2024 | Presenter: Xueting Ban |  A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study on International GTAs’ L2 Pragmatic Awareness of Politeness and (In) Directness

-Link: https://ecll.iafor.org/programme/

Learning and Teaching Conference 2023 | The University of Edinburgh, UK | 27th Jun 2023 | ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice' | Experiencing and Researching SoTL | Presenter: Xueting Ban | From international PGR students to international GTAs: Academic rationales for international GTA recruitment in UK higher education institutions

-Link: https://universityofedinburgh.eventscase.com/EN/learningandteachingconference2023

China and Higher Education Conference Series: China and Higher Education Network | The University of Manchester, UK | 7th Dec- 11th Dec 2020 | Chair: Xueting Ban 

-Link:  https://chinahe.wordpress.com/home-2/chinahe20-conference-schedule/

 

Ban, X. (2023). ‘From international PGR students to international GTAs: Academic rationales for international GTA recruitment in UK higher education institutions.’ Postgraduate Pedagogies Journal, Vol 3 (2023), pp. 18-70. Available at: https://journals.studentengagement.org.uk/index.php/gtateach/article/view/1205

Lim, M. A., Li, H., Yu, J., Ban, X., Levy, K., Li, B., & Wang, A. (2022). COVID 19 incidents against Chinese and East Asian Students in the UK: Safety Security and Communication. HERE@Manchester. Available at: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/covid-19-incidents-against-chinese-and-east-asian-students-in-the-uk(665b5747-4da5-45f3-b1be-fb0924cb04e3).html