Staff profile
Yiwen Zhang
ECR Member
| Affiliation |
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| ECR Member in the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
Biography
Yiwen is a doctoral student at School of Education, specialising in student metacognition. After graduating from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology with a degree in English, Yiwen devoted herself in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) education in China and Australia. Passionate about teaching, Yiwen integrated research-based methods into practices, focusing on developing learner autonomy and promoting learning efficiency.
Yiwen was a master student in Education at Durham University and graduated with distinction. Now her research aims to identify patterns of intra-individual changes in metacognition and to highlight the importance of real-time feedback in Second Language Acquisition to potentially inform pedagogical strategies and assessment policies.
Research interests
- Metacognition
- Self-regulated Learning
- Second Language Acquisition