Zhù Huá (祝华), is Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication at the

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, Director of the International Centre of Intercultural Studies, and Chair of the

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. She was previously Chair of Educational Linguistics in the School of Education at the

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, and Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College,

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where she was also Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy. She was a member of the Education subpanel of the 2021 UK

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(REF), member of the 2020 Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise, and chairs the grant assessment panel for Psychology and Linguistics for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She is Fellow of the

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, UK, Academia Europaea

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, and the International Academy for Intercultural Research.

Life

Zhu was born in China and studied telecommunication and English in Beijing. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics from

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and was the first doctoral student of the late Professor Qian Yuan (钱瑗), the daughter of the well known Chinese scholars and writers

Qian Zhongshu Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998), also transliterated as Ch'ien Chung-shu or Dzien Tsoong-su, was a Chinese literary scholar and writer. He was known for his satirical novel '' Fortress Besieged''; his erudite, rarefied n ...

(钱锺书) and

Yang Jiang Yang Jiang (; 17 July 1911 – 25 May 2016) was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel ''Don Qu ...

(杨绛）. She later obtained her PhD in Speech Sciences from

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in Britain. Her research spans over cross-linguistic studies of child language acquisition, speech and language disorders of young children, pragmatics, multilingualism, and intercultural communication. She has also been involved in designing a number of clinical tests for speech and language development in English and Chinese.

Publications

Zhu is the author of ''Phonological Development in Specific Context'' (2002), and editor of ''Phonological Development and Disorder'' (with Barbara Dodd, 2006), ''Language Teaching/Learning as Social Inter-Action'' (with Paul Seedhouse, Li Wei and Vivian Cook, 2007), and ''The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader'' (2011). She is one of the authors of the clinical assessment ''DEAP: Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology''. She has been the reviews editor of ''The International Journal of Bilingualism'' (Sage) and is the forum and reviews editor of ''Applied Linguistics'' (OUP). She worked as Sir James Knott Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, Reader at Birkbeck, and has held visiting and honorary professorships in a number of Australian and Chinese universities. She was elected Fellow of the

, UK, in 2019, and

in 2025.

References

External links

Profile at UCL
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