Research Interests
Identity, Investment, digital literacies, rurality, linguistic landscape, Informal digital learning of English, language learning motivation
Selected Publications
2022
Liu, G. (2022, in press). Review of the book Linguistic landscaping and the Pacific region: Colonization, indigenous identities, and critical discourse theory.
Linguistic landscape. https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.00030.liu
2021
Liu, G. (2021, in press). Chinese overseas students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of their undergraduate intercultural education: A phenomenological study. Overseas English.
Conference Presentations
2022
Liu, G. (2022, August 5-7, forthcoming). Digital wilds as empowering spaces: identity, investment, and Chinese rural EFL learners. Paper presented at The 20th AsiaTEFL International Conference 2022,Asia TEFL. Malang, Indonesia.
2022
Liu, G. (2022, June 28-30, forthcoming). Inequality reproduction or habitus transformation? A Bourdieusian take on digital literacies of Chinese rural lower-class learners. Paper presented at 24th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics, The University of Warwick. Warwick, the United Kingdom.
2022
Liu, G. (2022, May 21). 投资视阈下中国香港二语教师身份建构的个案研究. Paper presented at 北京大学第十四届外国语言文学研究生论坛[Peking University 14th Postgraduate Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature], Peking University. Beijing, China.
2022
Liu, G. (2022, May 7). Identity, investment, and L2 teacher: A case study in Hong Kong. Paper presented at 第 671 期清华大学人文学院博士生论坛 [The 671st Tsinghua University School of Humanities Doctoral Student Forum], Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
2022
Liu, G. (2022, January 6-9). “Touch the new land”: Chinese international students’ psychological and academic adjustments during the COVID-19. Paper presented at the 7th IAFOR International Conference on Education, IAFOR. Hawaii, The United States.
2021
Liu, G. (2021, July 22-25). Low SES students’ investment in English language learning empowered by engaging with the digital wilds. Paper presented at the 2021 Global English Education China Assembly. Hangzhou, China.