معرفی
Xiaofei Lu serves as the George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, where he is affiliated with the Department of Applied Linguistics within the College of Liberal Arts. His research and teaching focus on computational approaches to language analysis, with office contact at 301 Sparks Building and email xxl13@psu.edu.
His academic credentials include:
- Ph.D. in Linguistics from The Ohio State University
- M.A. in English Language from the National University of Singapore
- B.A. in English from Nankai University, China
Dr. Lu's research program centers on corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, and second language writing, with particular expertise in lexical and syntactic complexity. He has developed multiple computational tools including the L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer and Lexical Complexity Analyzer, and currently investigates how linguistic complexity serves rhetorical functions across academic genres. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in language education and assessment.
Analysis of his recent publications (2020-2023) reveals consistent investigation into syntactic and lexical complexity metrics across Chinese and English academic writing contexts. The research demonstrates interdisciplinary connections between computational linguistics, genre analysis, and second language writing quality assessment, with particular attention to rhetorical functions in research article introductions across social science disciplines.
No scientific awards are documented in the available biographical materials.
Dr. Lu teaches graduate courses in corpus linguistics (APLNG 578, 579) and technology-mediated language learning (APLNG 588, 589), but details about student advising or research grants are not provided in the current documentation.
His computational tool development suggests active research group involvement, though no formal lab structure is specified in the source materials.
