Research Interests
Identity, Investment, digital literacies, social class, linguistic landscape, Informal digital learning of English, language learning motivation
Selected Publications
2023, forthcoming
Liu, G. (2023, forthcoming). From rural China to the digital wilds: Negotiating digital repertoires to claim the right to speak. Paper presented at The 2023 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Portland, Oregon.
2023, forthcoming
Liu, G. (2022, forthcoming). To Transform or Not to Transform: Understanding the Digital Literacies of Rural Chinese EFL Learners. Paper presented at International Congress on English Language Education and Applied Linguistics (ICELEAL2022). Hong Kong SAR, China.
2022
Liu, G. (2022, in press). 投资视阈下中国香港二语教师身份建构的个案研究.外语界 [Foreign Language World]. 6,57-65(CSSCI-indexed).
2022
Liu, G., Li, W., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Tracing Chinese international students’ psychological and academic adjustments in uncertain times: An exploratory case study in the UK.
Frontier in Psychology. 13, 1-15.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.942227 (SSCI-indexed)
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). Chinese overseas students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of their undergraduate intercultural education: A phenomenological study. Overseas English.
2020
Liu, G. (2020).A Lesson Plan of Task-Based Language Teaching in the Context of English Language Teaching in China. Journal of Research in Vocational Education, 2(9), 72-79.
Conference Presentations
2022
Liu, G. (2022, August 5-7). 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, July 23-25). Habitus, Capital, and Negotiation of Power in the Digital Wilds: A Case Study of Chinese College EFL Learners from Rural Backgrounds. Paper presented at The 7th Shanghai Forum for Emerging Researchers in Applied Linguistics & The 1st Summit on Educational Linguistics. Shanghai, China.
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.
