Fan Kuanjun
professor
School of Foreign Language
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China
Biography
Fan Lei is the Lecturer of English Department, School of Foreign Languages at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Her research spans theories of intercultural communication, cross-cultural adaptation, cultural values, conversation analysis, English language teaching and education. She focuses on questions such as: What are the acculturation strategies of Chinese overseas students in the U.S.? What are the different cultural values of Chinese and American college students? What are the changes of Chinese college students’cultural values on individualism and collectivism? What is the language mechanism of conversational misunderstandings in academic settings? How to cultivate English majors’ pragmatic competence through the course of intensive reading? She is the project leaders of some provincial and university-level research grants, and members of several national research projects. She is a member of China Association for Intercultural Communication (CAIC), and active in the international conferences of IC field, like International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) and International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS). She has a handful of publications in journals of language, culture and literature. She teaches language skill courses and major courses to English majors in English Department.
Research Interest
Theories of Intercultural Communication, Cross-cultural Adaptation, Cultural Values, Conversation Analysis, English Language Teaching and Education
Publications
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Fan Lei, Fan Weiwei, Acculturation Strategies among Overseas Chinese and Implications to Chinese College Foreign Language Teaching, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Foreign Language Teaching, Shanghai, China, 2003.
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Fan Lei, Fan Weiwei, A study of Chinese national spirit of Chinese college students and Chinese overseas students in the U.S., Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology • Social Science Edition (CSSCI), Volume 19, No.3, 2005, Pages 10-14.Fan Lei, Fan Weiwei, A study of Chinese national spirit of Chinese college students and Chinese overseas students in the U.S., Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology • Social Science Edition (CSSCI), Volume 19, No.3, 2005, Pages 10-14.Fan Lei, Fan Weiwei, A study of Chinese national spirit of Chinese college students and Chinese overseas students in the U.S., Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology • Social Science Edition (CSSCI), Volume 19, No.3, 2005, Pages 10-14.Fan Lei, Fan Weiwei, A study of Chinese national spirit of Chinese college students and Chinese overseas students in the U.S., Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology • Social Science Edition (CSSCI), Volume 19, No.3, 2005, Pages 10-14.Fan Lei, Fan Weiwei, A study of Chinese national spirit of Chinese college students and Chinese overseas students in the U.S., Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology • Social Science Edition (CSSCI), Volume 19, No.3, 2005, Pages 10-14.
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Fan Lei (Corresponding Author), “Words Not in the Story: Paratextual Analysis of Moral Education in a School Edition of Gulliver’s Travel in China, International Research in Children’s Literature (A&HCI), 2015, Volume 8, Issue 1.
