Chinese

Mu Lei

Lecturer
  • Educational Background

    2020, East China Normal University, Ph.D. in International Chinese Education (Academic)

    2015, East China Normal University, Master in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

    2012, Nanjing University, Bachelor in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

  • Work Experience

    2022present, Language Centre, Tsinghua University, Lecturer;

    20202022, Language Centre, Tsinghua University, Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Courses

    Chinese Reading & WritingLower Advanced Level(1)

    Chinese Reading & WritingLower Advanced Level(2)

    An Introduction to China

    Elementary Chinese

    Pre- Intermediate Chinese

    Academic Writing in Chinese for International Students.

  • Research Interests

    Second Language Acquisition of Chinese; Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

  • Awards and Honors

    2024, Exemplary Course on China's National Conditions for International Students at Beijing Universities. (Team leader);

    2024, Excellence Award for Courseware on China's National Conditions for International Students at Beijing Universities (Team leader);

    2024, Excellent Case Award, First Digital Education Demonstration Cases (Team member);

    2024, Third Prize for Excellent Thesis, the 17th Academic Conference of the International Chinese Applied Writing Association and the Second Youth Forum;

    2024, Excellence in Teaching Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2024, Outstanding Worker, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2024, Second Prize, Excellent Teaching Research Paper, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2024, Outstanding Communist Party Member, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University;

    2024, Excellent Teaching Team Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University (Team leader);

    2024, Excellent Teaching Team Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University (Team member);

    2024, Outstanding Instructor Award, the Competition of "Telling Chinese Stories in English";

    2024, Outstanding Instructor Award, the First Short Video Competition of Chinese Stories titled "Me and China" for International Students from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and ASEAN Countries;

    2023, Excellent Teaching Team Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University (Team member);

    2023, Outstanding Worker, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2023, Excellence in Teaching Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2023, Active Member, the Staff Union Branch of School of Humanities, Tsinghua University;

    2023, Excellent Innovative Thesis Award, the "Second Symposium on Language Theory and Language Teaching" of the World Chinese Language Teaching Association;

    2022, Second Prize, 10th Young Teachers' Teaching Competition, Tsinghua University;

    2022, Outstanding Worker, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2022, Excellence in Teaching Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2022, First Prize, Excellent Teaching Research Paper, Language Centre, Tsinghua University;

    2022, Excellent Teaching Team Award, Language Centre, Tsinghua University (Team member)

  • Achievements

    Research Projects:

    Principal Investigator

    1. Artificial Intelligence Pilot Project, Undergraduate Education and Teaching Reform Project, Tsinghua University (20242026)

    2. Research Planning Project in Higher Education Science (20242026)

    3. The course "Elementary Chinese Reading and Writing" was selected as a pilot classroom empowered by artificial intelligence at Tsinghua University. (2024)

    4. Mid-Career and Young Scholar Innovation Project, Global Chinese Education Thematic Academic Activities Program of the World Chinese Language Teaching Association (20232024)

    5. Undergraduate Education and Teaching Reform Project, Tsinghua University (20222024)

    6. China Post-doctoral Science Foundation (20212022)

    7. Postgraduate Scientific Research and Innovation Practice Project, East China Normal University (20172018)

    Co - Investigator

    8. Research Project of International Chinese Language Education, Center for Language Education and Cooperation, Ministry of Education (20222023)

    9. Undergraduate Education and Teaching Reform Project, Tsinghua University (20242026)

    10. Pilot Project of "One College, One Strategy" for Integrating Ideological and Political Education into Courses at Tsinghua University (20242025)

    11. Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project, Tsinghua University (20242025)

    12. Youth Project of the Research Center for World Language and Culture, China Foreign Language Strategy Research Center, on "World Language and Culture Research" (20232024)

    13. Sub-project of the Major Project of Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education (2014)


    Published Papers:

    1. MU Lei , WU Yongyi. A Study on Educating International Students About China's National Conditions Through an Emotional PerspectiveA Case Study of the "Overview of China" Course. Frontiers of International Chinese Language Education, 2024 (2).

    2. Wang Lina, Li Shaofeng, Mu Lei, Wu Yongyi. The Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback in EFL Teaching in China: A Meta-Analysis[J]. Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, 2023(02): 5770, 116, 145. (CSSCI)

    3. Mu Lei. The Study of the Processing Mechanism of Individual Classifier by CSL Learners and its Teaching Method [J]. Journal of North China Electric Power University (Social Sciences), 2022(1): 102108.

    4. Mu Lei, Wu Yongyi, Li Ting. A Study on the Cognition and Dissemination of Chinas image of the International Students from Countries Participating in the Belt and RoadInitiative [J]. Youth Studies, 2019(05): 8693, 96. (CSSCI)

    5. He, A.W, Mu Lei. Classroom Pragmatics and Its Role in Students' Language Development [J]. International Chinese Education (Chinese-English), 2019, 4(02): 7586.

    6. Mu Lei, Wu Yongyi. A Study on the Internet-mediated Discourse of Multilinguals [J]. Journal of Xinjiang Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2018, 39(06): 151160. (CSSCI)

    7. Wang Lina, Mu Lei, Wu Yongyi, Beth Cappelletti. A meta-analysis on the efficacy of written connective feedback [J]. Journal of Xi'an International Studies University, 2018(4): 4046. (CSSCI)

    8. Mu Lei, Wu Yongyi. A Study of Language and Character Attitude of Mainland MATCIL Graduate Students in Hong Kong—— Based on a Word Association Test and Interviews [J]. International Journal of Chinese Language Education, published by Zhonghua Book Company, 2017(1): 191212. (Hong Kong)

    9. Mu Lei, Wu Yongyi. Complex Multilingual System--from a Perspective of Chaos Theory [J]. Chinese Language Globalization Studies, 2017(01): 2636, 155.

    10. Mu Lei. Research on "XianX" Collocations within the Collocation Framework of Temporal Sequence Cohesive Words [C] // Linguistics and Chinese Second Language Teaching: Teaching Materials and Methods. The Commercial Press (Hong Kong), 2016.

    11. Mu Lei. Establishment of Temporal Sequence Cohesive Word Groups and Their Collocation Frameworks [C] // Linguistics and Chinese Second Language Teaching: Teaching Theories and Innovative Practices. The Commercial Press (Hong Kong), 2015.

    12. Mu Lei. Research on the Social Motivations for Multilingual Development of Chinese Heritage Language Speakers [C] // Proceedings of the 6th East Asian Chinese Language Teaching Postgraduate Forum & 9th Beijing-area Postgraduate Academic Forum on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. 2016: 569575.

    13. Mu Lei. A Review of Research on the Learning Motivation of Chinese Heritage Language Learners [J]. Cultural and Educational Literature), 2014(18): 4042.

    14. Mu Lei. The Sentence-final Particle "Lai" in Xuzhou Dialect [J]. Journal of Language and Literature Studies, 2014(20): 1011, 25.

    15. Cao Xianwen, Mu Lei. Chinese L2 Learners Language Repairs in Response to Feedbacks of Recast and Elicitation and Its Relationship with the Acquisition of Target Forms [J]. Chinese Teaching in the World, 2013, 27(01): 8694. (CSSCI)

    16. Cao Xianwen, Mu Lei. Syntactic Priming in Chinese L2 SpeakersProduction [J]. Chinese Language Learning, 2013(04): 8086. (CSSCI)


    Contributed Works

    1. Contributed to Research on Teaching Models of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (edited by Wu Yongyi). The Commercial Press, 2019.

    2. Contributed to Research on Teaching Methods of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (edited by Wu Yongyi). The Commercial Press, 2019.

    3. Translated Chapter 10 of Language Education Policy: Key Issues (2nd Edition) (edited by J. W. Tollefson, translated by Yu Weiqi). Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2014.

  • Contact Information (Email)

    Mulei@mail.tsinghua.edu.c

  • General Affairs/Undergraduate English: 010-62794960
    International Affairs/Graduate English: 010-62786071
    Chinese/Second Foreign Language: 010-62772058
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