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
- Chinese language learning difficulty
- Beliefs about second language learning
- Defining vocabulary in classrooms
Current Projects:
- Defining vocabulary in classrooms
- Character learning strategies
- Translatability (theories and distinctions)
Courses Taught:
- Modern Chinese Language: listening comprehension, oral presentation, characters, grammar, translation, debate, newspaper reading, etc.
- Literature texts
- Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Module
Recent Publications:
- Word concreteness and word translatability: relations and implications for second language acquisition. with L, Tian. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics. forthcoming
- 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]
Further Info:
Translation:
- 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.
