Jinfen Xu is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her main research interests are foreign-language education, instructed second-language acquisition, learner autonomy and teacher development. She has published more than 210 articles in total on instructed SLA, classroom interaction, college English teaching reform and teacher reflection in many key academic journals in China and foreign journals (such as TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, Language Policy, System, Language and Education and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism). Her work also includes over 30 books on second-language teaching and learning or textbooks and 24 projects at both national and provincial levels.
