Dr Ying Wang (王颖) PhD

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Global Englishes)

Dr Ying Wang (王颖) is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Global Englishes) in Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton.

It is my hope that my study on Chinese English as a lingua franca (ChELF) from the perspective of language ideologies would “sharpen” the framework of English as a lingua franca (ELF) by addressing the superdiversity embedded in ELF and Global Englishes.

I joined the staff in Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton in 2015, after I worked as a lecturer in Applied Linguistics in China for two years. I received the doctoral degree in 2012 with a research project, which explored Chinese speakers’ perceptions of their own way of using English in intercultural communication.

I worked as a programme coordinator on the organising committee of the Eighth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF8) held in Beijing, 25-27 August 2015.

I am currently collaborating with colleagues from Fudan University in China on English teaching programmes which incorporates the concepts of Global Englishes and Chinese English as a Lingua Franca (ChELF) across different levels of education in China.

I have recently published a monograph on Language ideologies in the Chinese context with De Gruyter Mouton.

Qualifications

BA, English, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2004

MA, King’s College London, 2007 (with distinction)

PhD, University of Southampton, 2012 (Overseas Research Scholarship)