Dr Jocelin Zhou
Confucius Institute Teaching Lead / Lecturer in ChineseProfile
Dr Jocelin Lingxia Zhou is a Lecturer in Chinese and CI Teaching Lead at Lancaster University. Before joining Lancaster, Dr Zhou was a Chinese lecturer at Princeton University and the teaching lead for advanced Chinese at Princeton in Beijing. She has also taught at Waseda University, SOAS and Beijing Normal University. Jocelin is currently the Chair of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS), having previously served as Director of Membership and Communications. She is also a member of American Association for Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include language policy and planning, language attitude and ideology, and language pedagogy.
Current Teaching
CHIN100/101: Part I Chinese Studies (Convenor)
CHIN201i: Chinese Language: Written Skills (post-Beginner CEFR: B1) (Convenor)
CHIN200i: Chinese Language: Oral Skills (post-Beginner CEFR: B1) (Convenor)
CHIN301: Chinese Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)(Convenor)
CHIN300: Chinese Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)(Convenor)
DELC200: Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
DELC300: Final Year Programme for Academic Skills and Employability
DELC215: Language and Identity in France, Germany, Spain and the Sinophone World
DELC416: Academic and Professional Methods in Translation
DELC420: MA Translation Project
PhD Supervision Interests
I welcome PhD proposals in the fields of Language Policy and Planning, Language Pedagogy, and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. I am also interested in proposals exploring the interplay between language and society, particularly with a focus on East Asia.
British Association of Chinese Studies Annual Conference, 2-4 September 2026
Participation in conference - Academic
Taboo Language in Chinese, English & Japanese Social Media-- Functions, Strategies & Implications for Chinese Language Teaching
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Revisiting the Prompt: Critical AI Literacy for Language Educators: A day of keynote insights, active learning, and shared best practices
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Night at the Museum: Livestream from Jingdezhen, China’s Porcelain Capital
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British Chinese Language Teaching Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Universities' China Committee in London (UCCL) (External organisation)
Membership of committee
The Future of Technology in Language Education
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
How Can Languages Save the World
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
An Exploratory Investigation of Affordance in an AI-Assisted Language Exchange Programme---How AI Enhances Language Learning through Pedagogical, Technological, and Social Affordances
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
British Chinese Language Teaching Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee
A Comparative Analysis of Language Policies in the UK and Ireland
Invited talk
Cultivating Dragon Eggs: Transcultural teaching and learning as transformational education
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
ChatGPT and Chinese Verb Complement Learning
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Blackpool Aspire Academy
School Engagement
A Survey and Analysis of Chinese Language Teaching Materials in British Higher Education
Invited talk
Hegemony and Counter-hegemony: Language Protection Campaigns in China
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Planning and Managing Chinese Language Teaching in Global Contexts
Invited talk
Corpus Planning and Standardisation of Chinese Sign Language
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Journal)
Publication peer-review