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3335
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46

Overview

Guangwei Hu is affiliated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China. Their research spans various aspects of social sciences and arts and humanities, with significant contributions in the fields of literature and literary theory, education, language and linguistics, safety research, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work focuses extensively on several main topics, including:

  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Multilingual Education and Policy

Guangwei Hu has coauthored with several researchers frequently, including:

  • Shaoxiong Brian Xu
  • Hassan Nejadghanbar
  • Mostafa Nazari
  • Madhu Neupane Bastola
  • Qian Wang

The scientist has published multiple papers in prominent venues such as:

  • Accountability in Research
  • System
  • English for Specific Purposes
  • Ethics & Behavior
  • Lingua

Notable recent papers include:

  • Challenges for enforcing editorial policies on AI-generated papers, 2023, Accountability in Research
  • English medium instruction, identity construction and negotiation of Teochew-speaking learners of English, 2022, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Mapping the field of English for specific purposes (1980-2018): A co-citation analysis, 2020, English for Specific Purposes
  • Supervisory feedback across disciplines: does it meet students' expectations?, 2020, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • Direct and indirect data-driven learning: An experimental study of hedging in an EFL writing class, 2020, Language Teaching Research

Guangwei Hu has also contributed to book publications, including a recent title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Investigating Plagiarism in Second Language Writing, 2024

Best Publications

  • Potential Cultural Resistance to Pedagogical Imports: The Case of Communicative Language Teaching in China

    Guangwei Hu

  • English Language Education in China: Policies, Progress, and Problems

    Guangwei Hu

  • Hedging and boosting in abstracts of applied linguistics articles: A comparative study of English- and Chinese-medium journals

    Guangwei Hu;Feng Cao

  • Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International Language

    Lubna Alsagoff;Sandra Lee Mckay;Guangwei Hu;Willy A. Renandya

  • English-medium instruction in Chinese higher education: a case study

    Guangwei Hu;Jun Lei

  • Using peer review with Chinese ESL student writers

    Guangwei Hu

  • English Language Education in East Asia: Some Recent Developments.

    Guangwei Hu;Sandra Lee McKay

  • English-Medium Instruction at a Chinese University: Rhetoric and Reality.

    Guangwei Hu;Linna Li;Jun Lei

  • Recent Important Developments in Secondary English-language Teaching in the People's Republic of China

    Guangwei Hu

  • Contextual Influences on Instructional Practices: A Chinese Case for an Ecological Approach to ELT

    Guangwei Hu

  • English Language Teaching in China: Regional Differences and Contributing Factors

    Guangwei Hu

  • Is English-medium instruction effective in improving Chinese undergraduate students' English competence?

    Jun Lei;Guangwei Hu

  • Exploring the relationship between metacognitive awareness and listening performance with questionnaire data

    Christine C.M. Goh;Guangwei Hu

  • Issues of cultural appropriateness and pedagogical efficacy: exploring peer review in a second language writing class

    Guangwei Hu;Sandra Tsui Eu Lam

  • Interactive metadiscourse in research articles: A comparative study of paradigmatic and disciplinary influences

    Feng Cao;Feng Cao;Guangwei Hu

  • Psychological constraints on the utility of metalinguistic knowledge in second language production

    Guangwei Hu

  • The Misleading Academic Discourse on Chinese–English Bilingual Education in China

    Guangwei Hu

  • The craze for English-medium education in China: driving forces and looming consequences

    Guangwei Hu

  • Disciplinary and paradigmatic influences on interactional metadiscourse in research articles

    Guangwei Hu;Feng Cao

  • ‘CLT is best for China’— an untenable absolutist claim

    Guangwei Hu

  • Investigating Chinese University Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Plagiarism From an Integrated Perspective

    Guangwei Hu;Jun Lei

  • Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts

    Guangwei Hu

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