DrXiaozhou ZHOU

Fullname:Xiaozhou Zhou (Emily)

Email:xzhou@shisu.edu.cn

2011‘Postgraduate Award –Introduction to Academic and Professional Practice’ – Aprofessional training course offered by

University of Warwick

2008-2011PhDin English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

University of Warwick

2007-2008MScin Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

University of Oxford

2007-2008Certificatein TEFL

University of Oxford

2003-2007BAin English Language and Literature

Shanghai International StudiesUniversity, China

2004-2006BA(minor) in BusinessAdministration

Shanghai University of Finance andEconomics, China

Feb 2013-presentLecturer inSchool of English Studies       Shanghai International Studies University

• Teaching English reading courses tofirst-year BA students.

• Teaching English Society andCulture to postgraduate students.

• Teaching thesis writing to doctoralstudents.

• Researching in British culturalpolicy and creative industries, British higher education, languagepolicy and etc.

• Part-time research fellow at Centrefor British Studies.

Jan 12- Feb 2013DevelopmentOfficer at QAA (UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education)

• Contribute to the planning,coordination and management of core projects.

• Plan and facilitate qualitative andquantitative data collection and retrieval, coordinate data analysisand dissemination of outcomes in support of review activities.

• Liaise with universities in the UKand China and maintain partnership with a wide range ofstakeholders.

• Represent QAA on internal andexternal committees regarding research, networks, standards andquality enhancement.

Oct10-Sep 10Pre-sessional EAP teacher at Birmingham City University, UK

&Aug 09 – Sep 09      

• Taught English language skills topre-sessional students.

• Provided teacher training for newstaff.

• Designed course syllabus andmaterials.

• Administered weekly assessment andplacement and final tests.

• Supervised group projects,proofread project reports and conducted individual tutorials.

• Completed administrative duties.

Nov07 – Aug 08Mandarinteacher at Easy Access Mandarin, Ltd (Oxford, UK)

• Taught Mandarin to students of alllevels.

• Designed course syllabus andmaterials.

• Organised open days and culturalevents.

• Conducted face-to-face and onlineindividual tutorials.

• Contributed to the interactiveteaching and learning section of the company website.

2003-2011Voluntarywork

• Volunteeredon Warwick Postgraduate Open Day, in Warwick Undergraduate ResearchSkills Scheme, and as organiser, coordinator, translator,interpreter and receptionist at various exhibitions and sportsevents in Shanghai, China.

• X.Zhou (2014). Discourseand Culture in University English Classes. 当代中国话语研究，第六期.(Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, Volume 6, forthcoming)

• X.Zhou(2013). Identities in University Teachers’ L1 Use in L2 Class.Proceedings of European Conference on Language Learning (IAFOR).

• X.Zhou(2012). BehindClassroom Codeswitching: Culture, Curriculum and Identity in aChinese University English Department.LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing: Saarbrücken, Germany.

• X.Zhouand V. Murphy (2011). How English L2 Learners in China Perceive andInterpret Novel English Compounds. AsianEFL Journal, Volume 12,Issue 1, 348-376.

• Presented at the 46^thAnnual Meeting of British Association of Applied Linguistics inWarwick in 2014.

• Presented at the 7^thInternational Conference on ELT in China in Nanjing in 2014.

• Presented at the 16^thWorld Congress in Applied Linguistics (AILA 2011) in Beijing inAugust, 2011.

• Presented at 2009, 2010 and 2011Warwick Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics.