Yangxu Shen

Yangxu Shen is a PhD student at the Department of Applied Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her ongoing doctoral research investigates the dynamics of L2 Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in classroom settings, through the lens of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). She is interested in individual differences (IDs) in second language acquisition, research methodologies in applied linguistics, and beyond.

L2 Willingness to Communicate

Research assistant, Department of Applied Linguistics, XJTLU

Teaching assistant, Department of Applied Linguistics, XJTLU

LNG412 Individual differences in language learning (Teaching assistant)

LNG407 Second language acquisition (Teaching assistant)

LNG419 Multilingual education and multilingual literacies (Teaching assistant)