Name: Guangxiang (Leon) Liu
Gender: Male
Title: Professor (research-track)
E-mail: g.liu@seu.edu.cn
Address: Room 811, New Liberal Arts Building, Jiulonghu Campus, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Guangxiang Leon Liu (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) is research-track professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, China. His research focuses on AI-mediated informal language learning, digital literacies, and linguistic landscape. He has published extensively in leading international journals, including Computers in Human Behavior, ReCALL, System, and TESOL Quarterly. He serves on the editorial board of leading international journals like Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Taylor & Francis) and International Journal of TESOL Studies. He has guest-edited several special issues in SSCI Q1 journals such as Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Wiley) and TESOL Quarterly (Wiley). He is a recipient of the 2024 AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) Solidarity Award.
Recent Selected Publications:
1) Liu, G. L., & Lee, J. S. (Forthcoming). AI-mediated informal digital learning of English(IDLE). Cambridge University Press.
2) Liu, G. L., Ghorbandordınejad, F., Zhao, X., & Esirgapov, M. N. Social Support, Resilience, and (AI-Mediated) Informal Digital Learning of English among Multilingual Learners in Uzbekistan. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.70165 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 1.7)
3) *Liu, G. L., & Hossain, M. K. (2026). What Predicts (AI-Mediated) Informal Digital Learning of English in the Global South? The Case of Rural Bangladeshi Students. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 42(2), e70196. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcal.70196 (SSCI, Q1, IF =4.6)
4) *Liu, G. L., & Phyak, P. (2026). Nepali in the multilingual landscape of Hong Kong: Minority language, identity, and semiotic practices. Applied Linguistics Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0068 (SSCI, Q1, IF =3.8)
5) Liu, G. L., & Zhao, X. (2026). A scoping review of AI-mediated informal language learning: Mapping out the terrain and identifying future directions. ReCALL, 38(1), 111–130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0958344025100359 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 5.7)
6) Liu, G. L., & Zhao, X. (2025). The predictive effects of sociobiographical variables, English learning confidence, and digital competence on AI-mediated informal digital learning of English (AI-IDLE). International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.70010 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 1.7)
7) *Liu, G. L., Lee, J. S., Zhao, X. (2025). Critical digital literacies, agentic practices, and AI-mediated informal digital learning of English. System, 103797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103797 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 5.6)
8) Liu, G. L., Soyoof, A., Lee, J. S., & Zhang, L. J. (2025). Informal digital learning of English (IDLE) in Asian EFL contexts: A thematic review. RELC Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882251332309 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 6.2)
9) *Liu, G. L., Zhao, X., & Teng, F. M. (2025). TikTok refugees, digital migration, and the expanding affordances of Xiaohongshu (RedNote) for informal language learning. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 250123. https://doi.org/10.58304/ijts.250123 (Scopus, Q1, Citecore = 0.8)
10) Liu, G. L. (2025). Digital empowerment for rural migrant students in China: Identity, investment, and digital literacies beyond the classroom. ReCALL, 37(2), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0958344024000302 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 4.5)
11) Liu, G. L. (2025). Revisiting and measuring foreign language confidence from a world Englishes perspective: Scale development and validation. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 35(1), 291-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12618 (SSCI, Q2, IF = 1.5).
12) Liu, G. (2025). To transform or not to transform: Understanding the digital literacies of rural lower-class EFL learners. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 24(4), 928-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2023.2236217 (AHCI/SSCI, IF = 1.5)
13) *Liu, G. L., Darvin, R., & Ma, C. (2025). Exploring AI-mediated informal digital learning of English (AI-IDLE): a mixed-method investigation of Chinese EFL learners’ AI adoption and experiences. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 38(7), 1632–1660. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2024.2310288(SSCI, Q1, IF = 7.0)
14) Liu, G. L., Zhao, X., & Yang, B. (2024). The predictive effects of motivation, enjoyment, and self-efficacy on informal digital learning of LOTE: Evidence from French and German learners in China. System, 126, 103504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2024.103504 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 4.9).
15) * Liu, G. L., Darvin, R., & Ma, C. (2024). Unpacking the role of motivation and enjoyment in AI-mediated informal digital learning of English (AI-IDLE): A mixed-method investigation in the Chinese context. Computers in Human Behavior, 160, 108362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108362 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 9.0).
16) *Liu, G., Wang, Y., & Zhang, J. L. (2024). 计划行为理论视角下高校外语教师整合非正式数字化英语学习意愿研究[Examining university EFL teachers’ intention to pedagogically integrate informal digital learning of English based on the theory of planned behaviors]. 外语电化教学 [Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Education in China], 216(2), 82-88. https://doi.org/10. 20139 / j. issn. 1001⁃5795. 20240200 (CSSCI, Q1, IF = 3.65)
17) *Liu, G., & Ma, C. (2024). Measuring EFL learners’ acceptance of ChatGPT in informal digital learning of English based on the technology acceptance model. Innovations in language learning and teaching, 18(2), 125-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2023.2240316 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 3.1)
18) *Liu, G., & Darvin, R. (2024). From rural China to the digital wilds: Negotiating digital repertoires to claim the right to speak online. TESOL Quarterly, 58 (1), 334-362. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3233 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 3.0)
19) *Liu, G., & Ma, C. (2024). English in a rural linguistic landscape of globalizing China: language commodification and indigenous resistance. English Today, 40(1), 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S0266078423000135 (AHCI/SSCI, IF = 1.2)
20) Liu, G. (2023). Interrogating critical digital literacies in the Chinese context: insights from an ethnographic case study. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2241859. (SSCI, Q1, IF = 2.7)
