Position:
Instructor in Chinese
Faculty / College Address:
China Centre / The Queen's College
Email:
bo.hu@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Chinese language learning strategy
- Defining vocabulary in classrooms
- Translation and translatability
Current Projects:
- Translatability (theories and distinctions)
- Academic translation
- Learning through videos for advanced level
Courses Taught:
- Modern Chinese Language: listening comprehension, oral presentation, characters, grammar, translation, debate, newspaper reading, etc.
- Literature texts
- Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Publications:
- Teaching Chinese characters: what we know and what we can do, in C. Shei, M. Zikpi and D. Chao (eds), the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching, forthcoming, Routledge
- Manual in Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language, 2018, Routledge
- Word concreteness and word translatability: relations and implications for second language acquisition, with L, Tian. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2015, 38-4, 435-450
- About character learning: critically presenting twenty years’ research evidence. International Chinese Language Education, 2012, 2, 134-149
- The challenges of blended learning: critically evaluating the Chinese language case. The EUROCALL Review, 2012, 20, 2
- Do teachers and students of Chinese share similar beliefs about teaching and learning strategies? with L, Tian. System, 2012, 40, 2, 237-254
- The challenges of Chinese: a preliminary study of UK learners' perceptions of difficulty. Language Learning Journal, 2010, 38, 1, 99- 118
- Chinese tone learning strategies and tone competence. Journal of International Chinese Language Teaching and Learning (now International Chinese Language Education), 2007, 4, [in Chinese]
Translation:
- The identity of female clerics, Liu Xueqiang. In M, Erie (ed), Sharia Source Blog at Harvard Law School, 2016.
- Enclosure: An absurdist allegory on the reality of transposition. He Hai. In B.Kennedy, A.Mitha, L.Waiwright (eds), Triennial City: Localising Asian Art, 2014.
Past project:
• The Oxford Characters Learning Log
• TCFL Module (with Department of Educational Studies)
• TCFL Teacher Training Workshop
• Chinese Language Learning for Mid-Career Development
• Stand-Alone Chinese Language Paper
• Chinese Language Learning Difficulty Survey
