Our Research

Our Research

Staff in the Department of Applied Linguistics have a wide range of research specialisations, including:

  • cognitive linguistics
  • corpus linguistics
  • first and second language acquisition
  • gerontolinguistics
  • historical linguistics
  • multilingualism
  • psycholinguistics
  • sociolinguistics
  • TESOL

Staff of the Department of Applied Linguistics continue to make significant contributions to the field through publication in leading international journals, books and chapters. Prestigious funding bodies – including the National Social Science Fund of China, Chinese Society for Multilingualism and Multilingual Education affiliated to the International Association of Multilingual Education, and the Jiangsu Educational Science Research Fund – play an instrumental role in facilitating and supporting these contributions.

View the department’s research in our repository: https://scholar.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/organisations/department-of-applied-linguistics/