Xinlan Zhao has been engaged in Chinese language teaching and materials development at XJTLU since 2010. Her responsibilities have included designing and delivering courses such as intensive Chinese modules, practical language programs, summer sessions, and cultural workshops. From 2014, she took on managerial roles at XJTLU, including Module Convenor and Program Coordinator, with duties covering curriculum design, assessment, and academic coordination. She holds a doctoral degree in Applied Linguistic Sciences from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where her research centered on corpus-based analysis of Mandarin lexical development and second language acquisition.

Research interests
Chinese Language Education
Corpus Linguistics
Mandarin Alphabetical Words & Classifier Studies
Chinese-English Code-mixing in L2 Learners

Experience
Language lecturer, XJTLU, 08.2025 - Present

Lecturer, Module Convenor, Exam Officer, XJTLU, 10.2014 – 08.2019

Student Affairs Officer & Counselor, XJTLU, 04.2013 – 10.2014

Teaching Product Content Designer, Intelligent Speech Data Processing Engineer, AI Speech Co. Ltd. of Suzhou, 01, 2011 – 04, 2013

Teaching

CLT021, Intensive Chinese language stage 12

CLT023, Intensive Chinese language stage 34

Summer courses

Practical Chinese courses

Staff Chinese courses