Tanjun Liu is an Assistant Professor and Programme Director of English and Communication Studies in the Department of Applied Linguistics, XJTLU. Before joining XJTLU, she was a post-doc researcher at Hong Kong Baptist University, acting as the Project Manager for the SDF project, Writing across the Curriculum, which aims to build a university-wide longitudinal and cross-sectional learner corpus. Before moving to Hong Kong, Tanjun worked as an Associate Lecturer and a Researcher in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK after obtaining her PhD degree. At Lancaster, she was a doctoral researcher at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), involved in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus research group and supporting the MOOC Corpus Linguistics course (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics). She was also the organiser for Second Language Learning and Teaching research group for four consecutive years. Tanjuns research areas fall broadly into corpus linguistics (corpus-based language teaching and learning, learner corpus research and corpus-based language studies), second language acquisition, formulaic language (incl. vocabulary), second language writing and EAP. She is currently working on several projects, such as the British Council-funded project, Linguistic demands of EMI in Higher Education, and building a corpus of students writing.

PhD supervision: Corpus linguistics-related topics are welcome.

Corpus-based language studies

Data-driven learning and corpus-informed materials

Learner corpus research

Formulaic language

English for academic purposes

Second language writing

Second language acquisition

Programme Director of English and Communication Studies

Department Research Seminar Coordinator

LNG002 Introduction to English Studies

LNG102 Introduction to corpus linguistics

LNG203 Language and society

LNG204 Language and gender

LNG401 Linguistics for language teachers

LNG407 Second language acquisition