Biography

Dr. Xinyue Lu is an Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Howard University. She completed her PhD in Multilingual Language Education from The Ohio State University. Her scholarly work is situated in the fields of applied linguistics and educational sociolinguistics, with a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse language learners in world languages and ESOL programs. Drawing on ethnographic and discourse analytic approaches, she examines how language ideologies manifest in language classrooms and their implications for language teaching and teacher education. Her work has been published in journals such as Foreign Language Annals, NECTFL Review, TESL Canada Journal, Linguistic Landscape Journal, and International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching.