Name: Yawen, Han
Gender: Male
Business Address: No.2 Southeast Road, Jiangning, Nanjing
Email: harryhanyawen@126.com
Fields of Research: Language Policy and Planning; Internationalization in higher education; Second Language Acquisition
Yawen Han, Ph.D., Doctoral Supervisor, Postdoctoral Supervisor, and Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University (USA) and the University of Warwick (UK), specializes in language policy, internationalization in higher education, and second language acquisition. He has authored over 50 research articles in key domestic and international journals such as Language Policy, Current Issues in Language Planning, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, and Foreign Language Education, and has undertaken multiple research projects funded by the National, Ministry of Education, Provincial and university-level philosophy and social science programs. He is the executive director of Research Center on Language Policy for Asia-Pacific Countries in Jiangsu Province. He is a research fellow of China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies (CCLASS) and China Center for Language Planning and Policy Studies (RCFLS). He has served as the editorial board member for Current Issues in Language Planning (SSCI-Indexed) since 2021.
Publications:
1. Monograph
Han, Y., (2011) Intentions and Perceptions of Recasts in the China's EFL Classroom, Yilin Press, Nanjing
2. Edited Textbook
Zhang, J., Han, Y., & Tong, L.(2007), English Extensive Reading Course for Graduate Students. People’s Telecommunication Press, Beijing.
3. Book Chapters
Han, Y., & Kong, H. (2025). Empowering Educators: Unravelling Teacher Agency in Navigating Convergent Management for International Students in Chinese Higher Education. In S. A. Manan & A. Hajar (Eds.), Agency in Multilingual Education Policy and Planning in Asia (1st ed.). Routledge.
Liddicoat, A. J., & Han, Y. (2024). Politics, ideologies, values, and power in English language teaching. In A, F, Selvi & N, Galloway (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language. Routledge.
Han, Y., De Costa, P. I., & Cui, Y. (2018). Examining the English language policy for ethnic minority students in a Chinese university: a language ideology and language regime perspective. In A, J, Liddicoat (Ed.), Language Policy and Planning in Universities: Teaching, Research and Administration. Routledge.
4. Papers in Referred Journals
Dong, J., Han, Y. (co-first author), Tan, Y. & Li, D. (2025). ‘Sank you’ or ‘thank you’? Negotiating epistemic authority and communicative enoughness among international students in a Chinese EMI programme, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural development.
Han, Y., Kong, H., Dong, J. & Li, D. (2025). Teaching on the edge: Examining EMI teacher agency in the education of international students under the Convergent Management Policy in China. Current Issues in language Planning.
Li, D., Zheng, J. & Han, Y. (2025). Unpacking translanguaging practices in intercultural healthcare communication: Experiences of international medical students in a Chinese hospital. Applied Linguistics.
Li, D., Han,Y. & Zheng, J. (2025). Negotiating language use in intercultural communication: scaling practices of international medical students in a Chinese hospital, Language and Intercultural Communication.1-16.
Dong, J., Han, Y. & Zhang, T. (2025). Conflicting language ideologies and practices of English medium instruction policy for international students in China's higher education. Higher Education.
Dong, J., & Han, Y. (2025). “We feel excluded and isolated”: Multilingual international students’ emotions and agency in an EMI program. Linguistics and Education, 85, 101361.
Tan, Y., & Han, Y. (2025). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening. Language Problems and Language Planning.
Tan, Y., & Han, Y. (2025). Translanguaging and multimodality as flow, agency, and a new sense of advocacy. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.
Han, Y., Li, D., & Dong, J. (2024). The competing role of English and Chinese in the ‘practiced’ language policies for international medical students in a Chinese hospital. Current Issues in Language Planning, 1-24.
Dong, J., & Han, Y. (2024). Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme. System, 122, N.PAG.
Wang, X., & Han, Y. (2024). Teacher education as an ongoing professional trajectory: implications for policy and practice, Journal of Education for Teaching, 1-3
Dong, J., & Han, Y. (2023). Unpacking the epistemic injustice in English medium instruction: an ethnography of Bangladeshi students’ language ideologies in China. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 1-14.
Han, Y., Wei, R., & Wang J. (2023). An ecological examination of teacher emotions in an EFL context, Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1058046.
Han, Y., & Dong, J. (2023). Reproducing inequality while celebrating diversity: an ethnographic study of international students’ EMI learning experiences in China. Current Issues in Language Planning, 25(1), 1-22.
Dong, J., & Han, Y. (2023). Researching English medium higher education: diverse applications and critical evaluations of the ROAD-MAPPING framework, Language and Education, 38 (3), 523-526.
Dong, J., Han, Y. (2023). Jim McKinley and Nicola Galloway: English-medium instruction practices in higher education: international perspectives. Language Policy, 22(3), 367-369.
Han, Y., & Yu, D. (2023). Studies on Language Requirements in Scholarship Policies for International Students in China in the Context of the Belt and Road: Problems and Countermeasures. Journal of Language Policy and Language Planning, 18, 122-135.
Han, Y., & Xiao, W. (2023). Effects of Productive Vocabulary Knowledge and Working Memory Capacity on the EFL Learners’ Oral Fluency, Foreign Languages Bimonthly, (6), 87-95.
Gu, M. M., Han, Y., & Tang, L. (2022). Family language policy in a multilingual Mongolian family in China: A cross-generation exploration. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 1-18.
Han, Y., & Li, D. (2022). Language Education Policies for International Students in China: Evolution, Characteristics and Motivations, China Language Strategies, 9(2), 130-138.
Han, Y., Yang, Y., & Zheng, A. (2022). Effects of Corrective Feedback Types and Working Memory on EFL Learners’ Acquisition of English Verb Past Tense Form, Linguistic Research, (1), 158-169.
Han, Y., & Wang, Y. (2021). Investigating the Correlation among Chinese EFL Teachers' Self-efficacy, Work Engagement, and Reflection. Frontiers in Psychology, 4473.
Han, Y., & Wang, J. (2021). Effects of Task Complexity on EFL Learner’ Argumentative Writing Performance, Journal of Zhejiang International Studies University, (3), 56-64.
Han, Y., & Ni, F. (2021). Nation Emergency Language Competence Seen from China’s Prevention and Control of Covid-19. China Language Strategies, 8, 81-88.
Han. Y., & Wang, J. (2021). Effects of Task Complexity on EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing Performance. Journal of Zhejiang International Studies University, 3, 56-64.
Han, Y., Li, W., Bao, M., Cao, X. (2020). An Investigation of the Experiences of Working with Multilingual International Students among Local Students and Faculty Members in Chinese Universities. Sustainability, 12, 6419.
Han, Y. & Johnson, D. (2020). Chinese Language Policy and Uyghur Youth: Examining Language Policies and Language Ideologies. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 20(3), 183-196.
Gu, M. M., & Han, Y. (2020). Exploring family language policy and planning among ethnic minority families in Hong Kong: through a socio-historical and processed lens. Current Issues in Language Planning, 1-21.
Han, Y., Gao, X., & Xia, J. (2019). Problematising recent developments in non-English foreign language education in Chinese universities, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40(7), 562-575.
Han, Y., De Costa, P. I., & Cui, Y. (2019). Exploring the language policy and planning/second language acquisition interface: ecological insights from an Uyghur youth in China. Language Policy, 18(1), 65-86.
Han, Y., & Liu, S. (2019). The effects of task complexity and working memory capacity on Chinese EFL learners' written production, Shangdong Foreign Language Teaching, (2): 66-75.
Han, Y. (2019). Reflections on the development of Non-English language programmes in China. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, (1), 28-29.
Han, Y., Cui, Y. & Tang. Y. (2017) Effects of working memory and task frequency on the Chinese English learners' oral production，Foreign Language and Their Teaching ,90-98.
Han, Y., De Costa, P. I., & Cui, Y. (2016). Examining the English language policy for ethnic minority students in a Chinese university: a language ideology and language regime perspective. Current issues in language planning, 17(3), 311-331.
Han, Y. (2015). Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Accuracy, Complexity and Fluency of the Chinese EFL Learner's Oral Production, Foreign Language Education, 65-68.
Han, Y., Cui, Y. & Wang, Z. (2015) Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Topic Familiarity on Chinese EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension, Shandong Foreign Language Teaching.
Han, Y. (2012). Recasts in Oral Interaction: Controversy and Suggestions, Foreign Language Research, 4, 48-51.
Han, Y. (2012). On Intercultural Education in the Context of Sino-foreign Cooperation, Jiangsu Higher Education, 4, 110-111.
Han, Y. (2011).Current Studies of Recasts in Language Acquisition. Journal of Nanjing University of Technology, 2, 94-100.
Han, Y. (2010). A Query on Definition of Recasts in L2 Research: Implicit and Corrective. Journal of Nanjing University of Technology, 4, 63-68.
Han, Y. (2009). The ZPD Theory and Its Implications for Second Language Acquisition. Journal of Nanjing University of Technology, 3, 92-96.
Han, Y. (2009). An Analysis of Negative Feedback in Language Learning. Jiangsu Foreign Language Teaching and Research,3.41-44.
Han, Y. (2005). Research on Mispresentation in Intercultural Communication. Journal of Anhui University of Technology, 5, 102-104.
Han, Y. (2004). An Analysis of Gender Differences in Language Acquisition. Journal of Nanjing University of Technology, 4, 101-104.
5. Policy Report:
Han Y, & Zhang Y (2024). Survey on Language Usage in Online Consultation Platforms, National Language Commission’s Report on the State of Language Life in China
Grants
2025 Research on Foreign Common Language Education Policies, The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China [grant number MOE-CIEM-2025018]
2025 The Construction and Investigation of an Evaluation System for International Chinese Language Teaching Materials, The Institute of Foreign Language Textbook Studies, Shanghai International Studies University [grant number 202514932JS]
2024 Research on the Status Quo, Effectiveness, and Development Strategies of International Communication in Universities, The Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [grant number 24GCB004]
2019 Educational Language Policy on the Inbound International students from the “One belt and One Road”Countries and Regions in China, National Social Science Foundation of China [grant number 19BYY037]
2019 Language Policy on Multilingual Education in "Double First-rate" Universities of China, The Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of SEU [grant number 2242019S20042 ]
2018 Educational Language Policy on Minority Students in Inland Universities of China, The Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [grant number 18YYB007]
2018 Language Policy on Inbound International Students in China，The Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of SEU [grant number 2242018S10040]
2016 Research on Academic socialization of International Students in Jiangsu [grant number 16jsyw-56]
2015 English educational Policy on minority students in Jiangsu universities from the perspective of language ideology, The Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education [grant number 2015SJB078]
Educational Reform Projects:
2025 Pilot Course Development Project on “Artificial Intelligence + Teaching”: Advanced University English Course 2—Scientific Research and Academic Writing, Southeast University
2023 Graduate Online Open Course Development Project: Academic Paper Writing (Linguistics), Southeast University
International Conferences
Han, Y. A Multidimensional Inquiry into Language Policies and Practices for International Students in China’s Higher Education (Panel Convener), The 15th International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics, Xi’an, 2025.
Han, Y. Research on Language Planning and Policy for International Students from a Global Communication Perspective (Panel Convener), The 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Urban Language Studies, Beijing, 2025.
Han, Y. & Li, D. The competing role of English and Chinese as the lingua franca in the “practiced language policies” for international medical students in a Chinese hospital. AAAL, Houston, 2024
Han, Y. & Dong, J. Myth and Reality: An Ethnography of Non-native English Speaking Teachers’ (NNESTs) Emotional Experiences in EMI Context at a Chinese Border University. AAAL, Portland, 2023
Han, Y. & Dong, J. Monolingual Ideologies in Multilingual Realities: An Ethnography of Bangladeshi Students’ Learning Experiences in EMI programme at a Chinese University. The 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Urban Language Studies, Nanjing, 2022
Han, Y. & Dong, J. Reproducing Inequality While Celebrating Diversity: An Ethnographic Study of International Students’ EMI Learning Experiences in China. 56th RELC International Conference. Singapore city, 2022
Han, Y. & Costa, P. I. D. Examining the family language policy through language practice, ideology, and management strategy: A case study of an Uyghur family. AAAL, Atlanta, 2019
Han, Y., Costa, P. I. D., & Cui, Y. Exploring the language policy and planning/second language acquisition interface: ecological insights from an Uyghur youth in china. AAAL, Chicago, 2018
Han, Y & Liu, Si, The Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Planning Time on Chinese EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing, The 13th Asia TEFL International Conference, Nanjing, 2015
Han, Y. & De Costa, P. Examining the English Language Policy for Ethnic Minority students in a Chinese University: An Ideological Perspective, AAAL, Toronto, 2015
Han, Y. Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Fluency, Complexity and Accuracy in L2 Oral Production, The 7th International Conference on ELT in China, Nanjing, 2014
Professional Affiliations
International Alliance of Young Applied Linguistics Scholars (IAYALS)
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Asia TEFL (Teachers of English as a Foreign Language)
The China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies (CCLASS)
China Center for Language Planning and Policy Studies (RCFLS)
The Chinese Association of Pragmatics
The Chinese Association of Logic
The Jiangsu Association of Linguistics
