Rong ZHANG

Research title: Multilingual learners' Literary Encounter with Audio books

Research Summary

My research sits at the intersection of literature and education, trying to engage language learners to read literature effortlessly and happily. Other research interests include:

  • Reader response theory
  • Children's literature and Young Adult (YA) literature 
  • Stylistics and Text World Theory 
  • Reading for Pleasure
  • Multimodal literacy 

Publications

ZHANG, R. (2022) Validating an EFL Summative Test in Business English Major at a Chinese University. English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies, 5(3), pp. 167-178. (doi:10.22158/ape.v5n3p167) 

 

Supervisors

Conference

Zhang, R. (2023) Exploring the Impact of Social Annotation on Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking. 19th ChinaCALL Conference, Inner Mongolia Normal University, China, 10-12 August 2023.

Additional Information

Educational background

  • 2017-2021: Beijing Foreign Studies University, China (Bachelor in Management Science)
  • 2021-2022: University of Reading, Institute of Education (Master of Arts)
  • 2023 to present: University of Glasgow, PhD student

Rong Zhang