Frank Xu
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Dr Frank Xu

Research Student

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  F.Xu2@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Intercultural Business Communication. I lead undergraduate modules in intercultural communication and one of the representatives (within the Tourism and Languages Group) in the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee at Edinburgh Napier Business School. In the meantime, I design and deliver intercultural training sessions for companies.

I have been supervising both Master’s (PG) and Bachelor’s (UG) dissertations whose topics resonate with my research interests, broadly speaking, intercultural business communication, (inter-)cultural identity, acculturation etc.

I was one of the organising committee members of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) Conference 2017.

I completed the doctorate at Edinburgh Napier University in January 2018. My PhD thesis explored the dynamics of individual acculturation trajectory within student group work at university. At that time, I also worked as an EFL lecturer and support officer in the International Operations within the University.

Before doing my PhD, I achieved a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an M.A. in Western Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from two Chinese universities as well as an M.Sc. in Intercultural Business Communication at Edinburgh Napier University.

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English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context

Journal Article
Victoria, M., Xu, F. H., & Pilcher, N. (2025)
English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context. Asian Englishes, 27(1), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2405278
In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not ...

An exploration of the dynamics of culture and personal acculturation in a culturally complex situation: Learning from university students' experiences of group work

Thesis
Xu, F. H. An exploration of the dynamics of culture and personal acculturation in a culturally complex situation: Learning from university students' experiences of group work. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1255585
In this thesis, I adopt the anti-essentialist cultural paradigm to explore the complexity within the processes of both cultural-making and personal acculturation that may occu...

Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View

Conference Proceeding
Xu, H. (. (2015)
Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View
In this paper, I start with the three building blocks concluded from the diverse acculturation definitions across disciplines and then discuss the main focuses in acculturatio...

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