生成式人工智能 与国际中文教育
Generative AI in Chinese Language Education
研究 · Research
Researching how teachers, learners and technologiesshape one another.
研究聚焦生成式人工智能、教师发展、中文文化与技术支持的课程设计,从真实课堂材料中形成问题、分析与解释。My research focuses on generative AI, teacher development, Chinese culture and technology-supported curriculum design, developing questions, analysis and interpretation from authentic classroom evidence.

研究方向 Research Interests
Generative AI in Chinese Language Education
Teacher Development, Beliefs & Technology-Related Agency
Chinese Culture & Context-Based Pedagogy
研究项目 Research Projects
研究实践涵盖质性个案、访谈与课堂观察、主题分析、语料支持教学,
及描述性分析。My research practice includes qualitative case studies, interviews and classroom observation, thematic analysis, corpus-supported teaching and descriptive analysis.
An Initial Exploration of the Design and Development of a Micro-Learning Series on Chinese Pinyin
以五周线下汉语拼音课程为场景,探讨微课程如何回应近零起点学习者在声调、变调、辨音与实际应用中的困难,并依据学习者反思持续改进设计。Set in a five-week face-to-face Chinese pinyin course, the study explores how micro-learning can address near-beginner learners’ difficulties with tones, tone sandhi, sound discrimination and practical application, while iterating design through learner reflection.
采用 Nation 与 Macalister(2020)课程设计模型,纳入 5 名非汉语母语本科生,通过 5 份结构化开放式反思问卷收集 1,770 字学习反馈。The study applies Nation and Macalister’s (2020) curriculum design model with five non-Chinese-speaking undergraduates and collects 1,770 Chinese characters of feedback through five structured open-ended reflection questionnaires.
使用 Excel 整理资料,结合演绎与归纳编码形成 89 个分析单元与 206 个编码片段,并通过模式编码归纳学习需要、呈现方式、评估反馈与学习灵活性。Data were organised in Excel. Deductive and inductive coding produced 89 units of analysis and 206 coded segments; pattern coding then synthesised learning needs, presentation preferences, assessment feedback and learning flexibility.
学习者最关注实际沟通与声调难点,并偏好真人示范、短视频和视觉标注。设计原则包括循序渐进、真实应用、自主与灵活学习,以及书面和口头评价配合及时反馈。Learners prioritised practical communication and tone difficulties, and preferred live demonstration, short videos and visual annotation. Design principles included sequencing, authentic application, autonomous and flexible learning, and timely written and oral feedback.
负责设计引导学习者开展课后自我反思的指引,并完成反思资料整理、主题编码、分析与研究成果撰写与汇报等工作。I designed the post-class reflection guide, organised and thematically coded the reflections, analysed the evidence, and contributed to the writing and conference presentation of the findings.
论文已被 TechCLE 2026 会议论文集接收、待出版;研究先后在 TechCLE 2026 与第十五届中文教学现代化国际研讨会进行现场汇报。The paper has been accepted for the TechCLE 2026 conference proceedings and is forthcoming. The study was presented at TechCLE 2026 and the 15th International Conference on the Modernization of Chinese Language Education.
Multilingual Writings by Sinophone Hong Kong Writers
作为 Student Helper 参与香港华语作家多语写作研究,为粤语与普通话转换材料的系统整理提供研究支持。As a student helper, I supported research on multilingual writing by Sinophone Hong Kong authors, contributing to the systematic organisation of Cantonese–Putonghua conversion materials.
开展语料采集、粤语—普通话对应整理、分类记录与人工复核,确保资料能够回溯原始文本并保持标注一致。Responsibilities included corpus collection, Cantonese–Putonghua alignment, categorisation and manual verification, ensuring traceability to source texts and consistency of annotation.
收集、整理并校对 2,000+ 条粤语—普通话转换语料,形成结构化语料对照资料。I collected, organised and checked more than 2,000 Cantonese–Putonghua conversion entries, forming a structured parallel dataset.
李碧华《白开水》以香港都市日常与口语化散文呈现本地表达;黄碧云《烈佬传》以粤语书写边缘人物的生命史;董启章《香港字:迟到一百五十年的情书》把香港中文铅字史与虚构叙事交织;黄碧云《温柔与暴烈》以反差鲜明的文字书写香港经验与本地语感。Sources include Li Bihua’s Plain Water, which uses colloquial prose to portray everyday urban Hong Kong; Huang Biyun’s The Fierce Man, a Cantonese-inflected life history of marginal characters; Dung Kai-cheung’s The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera, which intertwines Hong Kong typography with fiction; and Huang Biyun’s Gentle and Fierce, whose contrasting prose captures local experience and sensibility.
ChatGPT-Supported Chinese Cultural Context Scripts
研究 7 名中高级中文学习者如何借助 ChatGPT 创作中文文化语境剧本,重点分析工具、规则、共同体、分工与教师支持之间出现的矛盾,以及这些矛盾如何被调解。This study examines how seven intermediate-to-advanced Chinese learners used ChatGPT to create cultural-context scripts, focusing on contradictions among tools, rules, community, division of labour and teacher support, and how these contradictions were mediated.
以活动理论为框架,综合分析学习者反思、半结构式访谈、工作坊转录与最终剧本;通过定性编码、矛盾识别与跨来源比较,追踪学习者与生成式人工智能的互动过程。Using activity theory, the study integrates learner reflections, semi-structured interviews, workshop transcripts and final scripts. Qualitative coding, contradiction identification and cross-source comparison trace learner–AI interaction.
区分文化语境提示与程序性提示,并比较学习者将 ChatGPT 视为“助手”或“工具”时的不同实践。结果显示,“先文化语境、后程序步骤”的提示顺序更有助于保障文化适切性。The study distinguishes cultural-context prompts from procedural prompts and compares practices in which learners treated ChatGPT as an assistant or as a tool. A culture-first, procedure-second sequence better supported cultural appropriateness.
研究识别出四类主要矛盾,其中“规则—共同体”矛盾最突出;教师调解的解决率为 81.3%,高于同伴协作的 66.7% 与自我修正的 33.3%。有效路径体现为:规则阐释—教师文化指导—跨文化交际能力提升。Four major contradictions were identified, with rules–community tensions most prominent. Instructor mediation resolved 81.3% of relevant episodes, compared with 66.7% for peer collaboration and 33.3% for self-correction. The effective pathway was rule interpretation, teacher cultural guidance and improved intercultural competence.
负责整体研究设计、数据分析、撰写论文核心部分及整体完善等工作,把课堂活动中的矛盾、调节方式与学习结果组织为可解释的研究证据。I led the overall research design and data analysis, drafted the core sections of the paper and contributed to the full manuscript revision, transforming contradictions, mediation practices and learning outcomes into interpretable evidence.
研究表明,生成式人工智能支持的语言学习并非单纯的人机互动,而是由教师、同伴、规则与文化知识共同调节的社会性学习过程;教师由知识传递者进一步转向矛盾调解者。The study shows that generative-AI-supported language learning is not merely human–computer interaction but a socially mediated process involving teachers, peers, rules and cultural knowledge. The teacher’s role extends from knowledge transmitter to mediator of contradictions.

论文与论文集 Publications & Proceedings
期刊论文 · Journal Article
Emma Rao · Ruohan Zhao
Online First · International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching (2026), 260603, 1–28查看 DOI ↗会议论文集 · Conference Proceedings
Emma Rao · Ruohan Zhao
Accepted, forthcoming · TechCLE 2026 会议论文集学术会议 Conference Presentations
9th International Forum on Linguistics and Chinese Education(IFOLCE-9)
香港城市大学|香港City University of Hong Kong · Hong KongThe Application of ChatGPT in Creating Chinese Cultural Context Scripts: An Activity Theory Perspective会议信息 ↗Conference on Technology-Enhanced Chinese Language Education(TechCLE 2026)
香港科技大学清水湾校园|香港HKUST Clear Water Bay Campus · Hong KongAn Initial Exploration of the Design and Development of a Micro-Learning Series on Chinese Pinyin会议信息 ↗15th International Conference on the Modernization of Chinese Language Education
云南大学|昆明,中国Yunnan University · Kunming, China汉语拼音微课程系列设计与开发初探An Initial Exploration of the Design and Development of a Micro-Learning Series on Chinese Pinyin会议信息 ↗在研项目 Research in Progress
Ongoing research projects moving through analysis, revision and development.
以‘人工智能介入的关键教学判断事件’为分析单位,关注教师在资源与课程设计、课堂互动、评价反馈、文化阐释与伦理治理中如何界定问题、核验证据、权衡价值并说明责任。Using critical AI-mediated pedagogical judgement events as the unit of analysis, the study examines how teachers frame problems, verify evidence, balance values and articulate responsibility across curriculum design, classroom interaction, assessment, cultural interpretation and ethical governance.
拟以生态能动性与 DSMRI 为理论支点,通过多阶段混合方法追踪教师专业判断的发展,并形成事件类型、判断分析框架、跨情境案例与教师发展方案。Grounded in ecological agency and DSMRI, the proposed multiphase mixed-methods design will trace the development of professional judgement and generate an event typology, an analytical framework, cross-context cases and a teacher-development programme.
研究计划持续完善中 · Research plan in development采用嵌入式质性个案与回溯式再分析,比较两名教师如何从怀疑出发,对生成式人工智能进行生成、核查、筛选、支架化、延迟、替换或拒绝,并将其转化为课堂行动。An embedded qualitative case study and retrospective reanalysis compares how two teachers moved from scepticism to generating, checking, filtering, scaffolding, delaying, replacing or refusing GenAI outputs in classroom practice.
核查 7 份原始转录文件和 87 个相关教师话轮,以 29 个编码构成的六维框架开展跨来源比较。研究提出‘条件性编排’,并区分可见的 AI 使用与具有认识价值的学习参与。Seven transcripts and 87 relevant teacher turns were examined through a six-dimensional framework of 29 codes. The study develops the idea of conditional orchestration and distinguishes visible AI use from epistemically productive engagement.
论文修改中 · Manuscript under revision学习者的参与和回应:基于语料库辨析汉语近义词的混合式教学研究。围绕 31 名高级中文学习者,综合问卷、访谈、反思与小组汇报,分析学习者如何把真实语料中的搭配、句法、语域与频率证据转化为近义词判断。Drawing on questionnaires, interviews, reflections and group presentations from 31 advanced Chinese learners, the study examines how evidence about collocation, syntax, register and frequency is transformed into judgements about near-synonyms.
结果显示,难点不只在检索,更在于从分布证据形成语言解释;视频、同伴与教师支架能够降低认知与情绪成本。学习者对任务有用性的评价与持续使用语料库的意愿并不完全一致。The main challenge lies not only in retrieval but in reasoning from distributional evidence to linguistic claims. Video, peer and teacher scaffolding can reduce cognitive and emotional costs, while perceived usefulness does not necessarily translate into continued corpus use.
论文修改中 · Manuscript under revision基于维果茨基理论、内容依托教学与 SCOBA,设计两名学习者的前测—干预—后测研究,考察“火”类情感隐喻的理解与迁移。Drawing on Vygotskian theory, content-based instruction and SCOBA, this pretest-intervention-posttest study examines two learners’ comprehension and transfer of affective metaphors involving fire.
已形成研究论文、汇报材料与教学工具包,并通过访谈、转录主题分析和描述性比较检视向“水”类隐喻的迁移。Outputs include a research manuscript, presentation materials and a teaching toolkit; interviews, thematic transcript analysis and descriptive comparison are used to examine transfer to water-related metaphors.
论文修改中 · Manuscript under revision