Rui Zhang (PhD, AFHEA)
Tutor in Chinese
- Department of Asian Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: rzhang13@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 4.05
40 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JU
Availability
Office Hours: Thursday 15:00-16:00
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