Xueting Ban (PhD Candidate)
Thesis title: Pragmatic competence and professional teaching performance: a longitudinal mixed-method study

PhD Language Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Contact details
- Email: Xueting.ban@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Xueting Ban is a PhD candidate at The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include applied linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, language testing and teacher evaluation.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts- English Education, Liaocheng University (2015-2019)
Master of Arts- Education International, The University of Manchester (2019-2020)
Doctoral program- Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh (2021- till now)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Areas of interest for supervision
Associate Tutor (Dissertation Supervisor) in MSc Language Education and TESOL
Research summary
Her current research interests include applied linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, language testing and teacher evaluation.
Past research interests
Her previous research interests include internationalisation of higher education, UK international education policies, international student recruitment, student mobility and doctoral education. Links: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/xueting-ban(95505017-495b-49ac-8c01-4eeb1eaafa20).htmlProject activity
Covid and Chinese and East Asian University Students in the UK: Safety, Security, and Communication | Co-investigator
- Project link: Http://studentsscuk.wixsite.com/online/the-project
Volunteering in the UK and China | Research assistant
- Project link: https://www.mci.manchester.ac.uk/research/ongoing-research-projects/volunteering/
Conference details
Learning and Teaching Conference 2023, ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice' | Experiencing and Researching SoTL | 27th Jun 2023 | Presenter: Xueting Ban
-Link: https://universityofedinburgh.eventscase.com/EN/learningandteachingconference2023
China and Higher Education Conference Series: China and Higher Education Network | 7th Dec- 11th Dec 2020 | Chair: Xueting Ban
-Link: https://chinahe.wordpress.com/home-2/chinahe20-conference-schedule/
Ban, X. (2023). ‘From international PGR students to international GTAs: Academic rationales for international GTA recruitment in UK higher education institutions.’ Postgraduate Pedagogies Journal, Vol 3 (2023), pp. 18-70. Available at: https://journals.studentengagement.org.uk/index.php/gtateach/article/view/1205
Lim, M. A., Li, H., Yu, J., Ban, X., Levy, K., Li, B., & Wang, A. (2022). COVID 19 incidents against Chinese and East Asian Students in the UK: Safety Security and Communication. HERE@Manchester. Available at: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/covid-19-incidents-against-chinese-and-east-asian-students-in-the-uk(665b5747-4da5-45f3-b1be-fb0924cb04e3).html