Pennsylvania State University, United States
About the Speaker
Xiaofei Lu is the George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, second language writing, second language acquisition, and computer-assisted language learning. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Second Language Writing. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Applied Linguistics, Behavior Research Methods, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly, and The Modern Language Journal, among others. His recent book, Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Perspective, Issues, and Findings, was published by Routledge in 2023. Since 2022, he has been recognized on Stanford University’s annual list of the Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists Worldwide in the subfield of Languages & Linguistics for both single-year and career-long impact. The L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer and Lexical Complexity Analyzer he developed have been widely used in second language writing and acquisition research.