Professor
Supervisor of Master's Candidates
ZHANG Lubei
Professor
Head of Department of English for Engineering
Email: lubeizhang@swjtu.edu.cn
Office: Room 30707, No. 3 Building, Xipu Campus
Links: CV
BIO
Education
PhD, University of Sydney, Linguistics (2015)
M.A., Southwest Jiaotong University, Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics (2006)
B.S., Sichuan International Studies University, English (2000)
Employment
Academic Appointments
Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2005-2018)
Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2018-2023)
Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2023-present)
Research Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China (2008-2009)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, US (2017)
Administrative Appointments
Head, Department of English for Engineering (2021-present)
Research Interests
Research Interest 1: Multilingual Education and Multilingualism
Research Interest 2: Sociolinguistics
Research Interest 3: Psycholinguistics
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Principal Publications of the Last Five Years
Peer-reviewed journal paper:
1) Zhang, L., Li, J.Z., & Tsung, L. (2026) Activity systems in transition: GenAI-Mediated thesis writing strategies and contradictions among Chinese doctoral students in Australia. System (138): 104002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2026.104002
2) Zhang, L., Cao, W.X., Tsung, L. & Cao, W.Y. (2025) Tracing the signature dynamics of EFL Learners’ L2 motivation in an AI-enhanced learning context, a retrodictive study on college students in China. International Journal of Applied Linguisitics, 36, (1), 638–651. doi.:10.1111/ijal.12784
3) Li., M. & Zhang, L.* (2025) Word Class Effects on L2 Chinese Word Associations. Sage Open, 1-17. doi: 10.1177/21582440251329552
4) Li., M. & Zhang, L.* (2025) Developmental features of Tibetan students’ Chinese L2 mental lexicon. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 1-12. doi.:10.1057/s41599-025-04723-0
5) Zhang, L., Cao, W.X. & Tsung, L. (2024) Unpacking changing emotions in multiple contexts: idiodynamic study of college students’ academic emotions. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 63 (4), 2349-2378. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2023-0290
6) Li, M., Qi, X. & Zhang, L. (2024) 大学生混合式学术英语学习投入度发展轨迹研究[Daxuesheng hunheshi xueshuyingyu xuexi touru fazhan guiji yanjiu] 外语电化教学[Waiyu dianhua jiaoxue], 5: 60-68
7) Zhang, L., Tsung, L. & Qi,X (2023). Home language use and shift in Australia: Trends in the new millennium. Front. Psychol., 14:1096147. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1096147
8) Li, M, Zhang, L.* & Zhou Q (2022). A Study on the Developmental Features of Yi Students’ Chinese Mental Lexicon. Front. Psychol.，13:790215. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.790215
9) Li, M., Zhang, L.*, & Linda Tsung (2021): L2 and L3 motivational systems and their interactions: a study of Tibetan-Chinese-English trilingual learners, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2021.1985958
10) Zhang, L. & Tsung, L. (2021) Learning Chinese as a second language in China: Positive emotions and enjoyment. System, 96: 102410. doi: 10.1016/j.system.2020.102410
11) Li, M. & Zhang, L.* (2021). Tibetan CSL learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and L2 achievement. System, 97: 102436. doi: 10.1016/j.system.2020.102436.
Book and Book Chapters:
1) Zhang, L. & Tsung, L. (2019) Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance: The Role of Schools in Saving the Yi Language. Switzerland: Springer.
2) Zhang, L., Li, M. & Bai, J.Y. (2026) Research on the Construction and Application of an Integrated Online-Offline Teaching Model for Academic English. Shanghai: SDX Joint Publishing Company.
3) Zhang, L., Cao, W.X., Qi., X. & Liu., Y. (2023) The language and cultural life of the New Generation of Chinese Australians. Shanghai: SDX Joint Publishing Company.
4) Li., M. Zhang, L., Qi, X. &Qu, Z.Q. (2023) An Empirical Study on Pedagogical Translanguage. Shanghai: SDX Joint Publishing Company.
5) Tsung, L., & Zhang, L. (2022). Multi-model approaches in multilingual education for minorities in China. In B. Adamson & A. Feng (Eds.), Multilingual China: national, minority and foreign languages (pp. 113-125). New York: Routledge.
6) Tsung, L., & Zhang, L. (2021). Heritage Languages in China. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 91-110). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108766340.006
Research Fundings
1) “Language Life and Chinese Cultural Identity of the New Generation of Australian Chinese”, National Social Science Foundation in China 2022, Project No.: 22XYY027
2) “Research on the construction and application of the Corpus-driven teaching model of Online and Offline in-depth integration of academic English”, Ministry of Education in China，Project No.: 21XJA740007
3) “Research on the current situation of foreign language education in primary and secondary schools in Tibetan, Qiang, Yi ethnic areas in Sichuan”, Social Science Foundation in Sichuan，Project No.: SC18WY033
4) “Tibetan-Sino speaker’s and Tibetan-Sino-English speaker’s semantic representation of the mental lexicon” granted by Chinese National Social Science Foundation. Project No.: 15BYY068.
5) “Study on the Dynamic network structure of Tibetan students’ Chinese and Tibetan mental lexicon” granted by Chinese National Social Science Foundation. Project No.: 20XYY012
Selected Awards and Honors
Third Prize of Sichuan Social Science Award (2021)
Second Prize of Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (2022)
TEACHING
Primary Teaching areas
Sociolinguistics
Academic English
Current Courses
Academic English for General Purpose (Undergraduate Level)
Socilinguistics (Postgraduate Level)
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
I am available for supervision. Over the past five years, I have supervised 10 master students and graduated 7.
