Daguo Li

Responsibilities:

Programme Director: International Professional Development (at Secondary and Primary Levels)
Managing and developing Chinese partnerships

Programme Co-Director: MA in English Language Education (in Guangdong) (a University of Reading award delivered in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies); contribution to the following modules: Academic English and Study Skills, Second Language Teaching and Learning, Research Methods in English Language Education, dissertation supervision
Contribution to the Reading Researcher Development Programme (RRDP) at the Graduate School for the Social Sciences
MA and PhD Supervision

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD and EdD (co-supervisor)

Nazatul Syima Mohd Nasir - The International experience of Malaysian government funded PhD students in the UK.
Julie Elizabeth (Beth) Richards-Bray - Can pre-departure activities impact positively on host-culture adjustment for sojourning students?
Arjen de Korte - Teaching English grammar to Dutch students.
Fang-I Chu - English learning motivation in a Taiwanese university context: A study of its dynamic nature from socio-dynamic perspectives.
Zeynep Butun - English Instructors` Perspectives on a Needs-Based CPD Programme: An Action Research

Completed PhD (co-supervised)

Winnie Qi Wu - Chinese postgraduate students' motivations, expectations and experiences regarding Higher Education in the UK: a case study of three British universities.
Carrie Xiaorong Zhang - The impact of residential courses in the UK on the professional development of Chinese teachers of English in the western provinces of China.
Lily Lei Ye - Exploring the multiple identities of Chinese student sojourner in the UK.
Wei Ye - A longitudinal Study on the Identity Change of Confucius Institute Chinese Teachers in the UK.
Yaqoub Alghatrify - An Investigation into the Colleges of Applied Sciences English Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Development in the Sultanate of Oman.
Tomasz John - The international student journey: enhancing postgraduate students' experience.
Sherry Jie Liu - Trilingual education of ethnic minority university students in China: a case study.

2017 A study into the oral learning environment experienced by students undertaking practical classes as part of a transnational educational (TNE) programme (ISLI-Chemistry joint research project funded by the International Development Fund of the UoR £12,000).
2015 Developing Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) in an international professional development context (ISLI Teaching and Learning Development project £2,900.00).
2015-2016 Programme development through cross-programme collaboration (ISLI Teaching and Learning Development project £2600.00).
2010 The impact of training on the classroom practice of Chinese secondary teachers of English: Evaluation of a UK programme (£20,000, funded by British Council English Language Teaching Research Awards, jointly with Professor Viv Edwards).
2007 University of Reading RETF Small Grants Pump-Priming Awards (£1,400).
IoE: Literacy and Language in Education (LLE)
ISLI: SLA SIG
Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM)

Edwards, V. and Li, D. (2016) Overseas training for Chinese teachers of English. In: Van Deusen-Scholl, N. and May, S. , (eds.) Second and foreign language education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education Springer , Switzerland. ISBN: 9783319023236 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02323-6_21-1