Yang Lu

Dr Yang Lu has a BA in English and English Literature from Jilin University, China. She obtained both her MA and doctorate degrees from the University of Reading. Her PhD investigates the nature of EFL test-takers’ spoken discourse competence. Dr Yang Lu has 18 years’ experience of language teaching and testing. She worked first as a classroom teacher and later as Director of the ESP Faculty and Deputy Coordinator of a British Council project based at Qingdao University, where she also worked as Associate Professor of English. Her academic interests are spoken discourse analysis and its applications in classroom and oral assessment contexts.

Dr Yang Lu’s publications include papers on: EFL learners’ interlanguage pragmatics; application of the Birmingham School approach; the roles of fuzziness in English language oral communication; and task-based grammar teaching. She has presented different aspects of her work at a number of international conferences. Dr Yang Lu was a Spaan Fellow for a validation study on the impact of examiners’ conversational styles.