Rui Zhang (PhD, AFHEA)

Tutor in Chinese

  • Department of Asian Studies
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Contact details

Address

Street

Room 4.05
40 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JU

Availability

  • Office Hours: Thursday 15:00-16:00

Biography

Background

Rui Zhang is currently a Tutor in Chinese at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and specialised in second language acquisition and education. Her research interests are in teaching Chinese as a foreign/second language, classroom discourse, and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. She has been teaching and researching Chinese as a foreign/second language in and outside UK for over a decade. Dr Rui Zhang presented research on language education and pedagogy at different conferences across the UK/globe. 

Undergraduate teaching

Chinese 1

Chinese 2

Chinese 3

Foundation Chinese Language 1

Foundation Business Chinese 1 & 2 

Research summary

second language education; Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and language acquisition; classroom discourse; discourse analysis; conversation analysis; corpus linguistics; interactional competence; teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a foreign/second language

Current research interests

I am currently interested in the research in second language classroom discourse, language development from Vygotskian perspective, scaffolding and mediation in the classroom.
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