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Gu Beiwei Lisa

Gu Beiwei Lisa

PhD student (FT)

Biography

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • MA in English Studies for the Professions, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • BA (Hons) in English and Applied Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research Interests

  • Language Teacher Identity
  • Teacher Emotion
  • English Tutor
  • Shadow Education
  • Artificial Intelligence

Research

Title of thesis: 

Shadow Education Language Tutors’ Responses to Artificial Intelligence and the Impacts on Teacher Identity

Publications

  • Curran, N. M., Gu, B., Zhen, L., & Jenks, C. (2025). AI and Native Speakerism: The Intersections of Technology, Language Assessment, and Linguistic Objectivity. RELC Journal, 00336882251367459.
  • Gu, B., & Curran, N. M. (2025). English tutors’ emotions, agency, and identity development in the aftermath of China’s Double Reduction policy. Educational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/eduling-2025-0009

Ju, T., Gu, B., Huang, F., Liu, X., Yue, C., & Yao, Y. (2023, August). Acquiring new contrasts in L2 vs. L3: Chinese dialectal speakers’ acquisition of Mandarin and English phonetic contrasts. In The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2870-2874). Guarant International.

  • “Sometimes a fan, always a patriot: Online discursive clashes about a K-pop star's identity,” Talking Across the World (TAW) Symposium, 16 - 17 May, 2025, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • “Native speakerism without native speakers: The case of an AI-based English learning app,” 21st AILA World Congress, 11-16 August, 2024, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia

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