Jianwei Xu

Jianwei Xu is an assistant professor of multilingualism and intercultural communication in the Faculty of Languages and Humanities. She holds a BA in English from Yunnan Normal University (China) and obtained an MA in TESOL and Language Education in 2000 and a PhD in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics in 2005 from La Trobe University (Australia). These academic experiences have helped shape her international and intercultural perspectives on language communication and the role of culture in learning and teaching, identity making and negotiation in the context of border crossing and transnational space. In recent years she has been involved in projects that are committed to addressing linguistic diversity and inclusion in education in multilingual and multicultural societies, interculturality in higher education, and migrant discourses and intercultural communication. Jianwei also serves as an associate editor for the open access, peer-reviewed and copy-edited journal 'New Perspectives on Languages', which focuses distinctly on research of/for underrepresented languages, minoritized and endangered languages, less widely taught languages, and other smaller languages. 

Research Expertise: multilingualism, intercultural communication, education of heritage languages, English as a lingua franca Research Methodology: interviews, qualitative discourse analysis, ethnography, the critical incident technique