Dr. Xiao Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Christiane Lütge
Institute of English Philology
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
Office address:
Schellingstraße 3 (VG)
Room 427 VG
80799 Munich
Curriculum vitae
Xiao Zhang obtained her Master degree in English Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) (with a focus on Linguistics and TEFL) in 2018. From April 2019 to December 2022, Xiao conducted a mixed-method study design in her PhD project with an aim to explore English language teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices in intercultural communicative competence in Chinese Universities. She is also an invited manuscript reviewer in international journals in the field: The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher; Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication; Asia Pacific Journal of Education; Humanities and Social Sciences Communication; Frontiers in Psychology.
In May 2023, Xiao joined the Chair of TEFL at LMU Munich as a postdoctoral research associate.
Areas of interest
- Intercultural communicative competence
- Cultural teaching approaches
- Digital literacy
Publications
- (2025) "Chinese students’ motivations for enrolling in English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes in Germany: An ecological perspective". Studies in Higher Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2605098 (with Li, Meiyi and Dang, Siyan).
- (2025) "A study of pre-service English teachers’ intelligent-TPACK on the acceptance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in their future teaching. In A. Alm, C. Lai, & Q. Ma (Eds.), Transitions in CALL. Castledown. https://castledown.online/reference/9781914291272/ (with Lütge, Christiane).
- (2025) ‘Proud to be a native speaker, but challenged by the role’: transnational monolingual English-L1 teachers’ professional identity construction in Germany. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2025.2498026
- (2024) "Teacher cognition about intercultural communicative competence (ICC): a comparative study of English-major and German-major pre-service teachers in China". Language Awareness, 1–21. (with Su, Xiaoli and Lütge, Christiane). https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2024.2376748
- (2024). "Understanding Chinese international students’ language ideologies and multilingual practices in English-medium instruction programs in Germany". Language and Education. 1-19. (with Lütge, Christiane). https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2024.2348594
- (2024) "A narrative inquiry of a Chinese international student’s construction of identity and language experiences in a multilingual university in Germany". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. (with Christiane Lütge). https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2339518
- (2024) "A cross-cultural comparison of ELT curricula of senior secondary schools in Mainland China and Hong Kong: A Governmentality Perspective". Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 8(1), 1-28.(with Su, Xiaoli and Ruisz, Dorottya). https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.5514
- (2023) "Study abroad experience as a factor: exploring English language teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices in intercultural communicative competence in Chinese universities". Elektronische Hochschulschriften der LMU München. Online Publication: https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32296/
- (2022) "Home culture and its effects on English as a lingua franca communication: Voices from Chinese students at a United Kingdom university". Frontiers in Psychology, 14. (with Christiane Lütge). doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1057315
- (2022) "Local teachers’ English-German codeswitching in English-Medium Instruction (EMI): voices from international students at a German university". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-15. (with Christiane Lütge). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2062366
- (2021) "Investigating international students’ attitudes toward local teachers’ L1 use and learning practices in English-medium instruction in Germany: a Chinese case study". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-15. (with Christiane Lütge and Lili Zou). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1986053
- (2021) "The place of English as an international language in English language teaching, teachers’ reflections". The Journal of Asia TEFL, 18(2), 739-741.
- (2021) "Investigating student teachers’ perceptions of English as a lingua franca and its teaching in mainland China". Asian Englishes, 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2021.1926647
- (2021) "Teachers' Digital Competence Self-Assessment Tools in Europe: introduction and implications". Digital Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools (12), 81-86. (with Su, Xiaoli and Ma Wulin).
- (2021) "Investigating social justice topics in reading texts of English textbooks used in China and Germany". Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 12(1), 34-43. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1201.04
- (2021) "A cross-national analysis of cultural representations in English textbooks used in China and Germany". SN Social Sciences, 1(4), 1-19. (with Su, Xiaoli). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00088-8
- (2020) "Promoting intercultural understanding in China's high school ELT classrooms through young adult literature". Overseas English (13), 266-268.
- (2020) "A new perspective on foreign language curriculum development – A review on Curriculum Development in Language Teaching (2nd Edition)". Foreign Language Education & Research (03), 8-12. (with Su, Xiaoli).
- "Enhancing pre-service English language teachers’ critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) through experimenting with AI-assisted inclusive pedagogies，XXIIIrd International CALL Research Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 03-05 October, 2025.
- "An investigation of Chinese international students' language ideologies and multilingual practices in English-medium instruction programs in Germany", British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), University of Glasgow, 04-06, September, 2025.
- "A study of pre-service English language teachers’ Intelligent-TPACK on the acceptance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in their future teaching in Germany", Individual report, XXIInd International CALL Research Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, 13-15 September, 2024.
- "Teacher cognition about ICC: A comparative study of English-major and German-major pre-service teachers in China"，Poster presentation, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2024 Conference，Houston，United States, 16-19 March 2024.
- "A narrative inquiry of a Chinese international student's language experiences and identities in a multilingual university in Germany", Individual report, 58th RELC International Conference 2024，Singapore，11-13 March 2024.
- "Teacher cognition about intercultural communicative competence (ICC): A comparative study of English-, Japanese- and German-major pre-service teachers in China" The 17th Annual Conference of China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAFIC), China, December 2021, online
- "Investigating Chinese University ELT teachers with and without Overseas Experience and Their Perceptions of Intercultural Communicative Teaching", The 9th International Conference on English Language Teaching (ELT) in China, October 2020, online
- "English student teachers’ perceptions of English as a lingua franca and its teaching in mainland China", "Foreign Language Teacher Education" Young Scholars Forum, China, August 2020, online
Teaching
- English as one of many: Promoting multilingualism and multiculturalism in ELT (summer term 2025)
- Grundlagen der Fremdsprachendidaktik (multiple terms)
- WÜ: Language and Intercultural Communication (summer term 2024)
- WÜ (MA): English language teaching through a task based approach (winter term 23/24)
- Contemporary Issues in TEFL (winter term 23/24)