Dr Jing Huang PhD, PGCHE, FHEA

Department of Linguistics and Communication
Assistant Professor
Postgraduate Programme Director

Contact details

Email: j.huang.6@bham.ac.uk

Address: G120 Frankland Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am a sociolinguist researching language as a semiotic source in cross-cultural communication. My teaching covers areas in sociolinguistics, language education, and interpretivist methodologies.

I currently serve as Programme Director for four MA programmes including Applied Linguistics, TESOL, AL with TESOL, and Language, Culture and Communication.

Qualifications

PhD in Education, Birmingham, UK
PGCHE, Birmingham, UK
MA in Applied Linguistics, Warwick, UK
BA in English, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Biography

Dr Jing Huang joined the Department in 2021. Before that she worked as a visiting lecturer in the School of Education at Birmingham, and a research fellow at the University of Bath for an ESRC project. Prior to her academic career in the UK, Jing taught English language in China for some years.

Teaching

I teach several core and optional modules on the department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD research in these areas:
Interactional sociolinguistics
Critical discourse analysis
Cross- or inter-cultural communication
Education of English as a global language

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

Trained as a sociolinguist and education researcher, I have published on subjects including diasporic heteroglossia, translanguaging, social media discourse, and superdiversity. My current research focusses on enhancing communicative competence and cultural understanding among social members with migrant backgrounds.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Li, L & Huang, J 2024, 'Online discourse and chronotopic identity work: A longitudinal digital ethnography on WeChat', New Media and Society, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241228809

Chen, Y-P, Liu, L, Che, Y, Huang, J, Li, G, Sang, G-X, Xuan, Z-Q & He, T-F 2022, 'Modeling and Predicting Pulmonary Tuberculosis Incidence and Its Association with Air Pollution and Meteorological Factors Using an ARIMAX Model: An Ecological Study in Ningbo of China', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 9, 5385. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095385

Curdt-Christiansen , XL & Huang, J 2021, '“Pride” and “profit”: a sociolinguistic profile of the Chinese communities in Britain', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 2021, no. 269, pp. 47-72. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-0005

He, T, Liu, L, Huang, J, Li, G & Guo, X 2021, 'The Community Health Supporting Environments and Residents’ Health and Well-Being: The Role of Health Literacy', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 15, 7769. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18157769

Huang, J 2020, 'A shifting standard: a stratified ideological ecology in a Birmingham Chinese complementary school', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

Huang, J & Li, L 2020, 'The construction of heterogeneous and fluid identities', Internet Pragmatics.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Huang, J 2021, Chineseness in diaspora: multilingualism, heteroglossia and fluid ethnicity. in S Gao & X Wang (eds), Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness: The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, pp. 13-37. <https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/Unpacking-Discourses-on-Chineseness/?k=9781800413825>

Curdt-Christiansen , XL & Huang, J 2020, 9 Factors influencing family language policy. in Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510175-009

Huang, J 2018, Translanguaging in a Birmingham Chinese Complementary School: Ideology and Identity. in Translanguaging as Everyday Practice. Springer, pp. 69-86.

Chapter

Huang, J 2018, Discourses of 'Chineseness' and superdiversity. in The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity .

Review article

Bonacina-Pugh, F, Da Costa Cabral, I & Huang, J 2021, 'State of the art review on translanguaging in education', Language Teaching, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 439-471. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444821000173

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