Innovation in Language Learning

Sihan is a DPhil candidate and a Swire scholar at University of Oxford, where she investigates non-native teachers’ use of pragmatic strategies in EMI (English as medium of instruction) classrooms in Higher Education in China. Before her DPhil, Sihan worked as KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) Associate at University of Edinburgh. Sihan was Educational Lead of the ’Tornado English’ project – a digital English platform for Chinese young learners, using bilingual animation and digital games for teaching. Together with the academic team of Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University, Sihan transferred expertise in second language education and digital education to Nosebleed Interactive Ltd., an independent game development company based in Newcastle, to design the Tornado English products. Sihan has also been awarded a Distinction by the University of Cambridge on an MPhil in Research in Second Language Education in 2016.