PhD, Chinese Linguistics (University of Melbourne, Australia)
MA, Applied Linguistics (University of Sydney / La Trobe University, Australia)
Graduate Diploma in Education (Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
BA, English Language and Literature (Foreign Language and Culture University, China)

Publications

Books

(1) Fornasiero, J., Reed, S.M.A., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., Enomoto, K., Xu, H.L. (2020) (Eds.) Intersections in Language Planning and Policy Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures. Springer.  

(2) Moloney, R. & Xu, H.L. (2018). Teaching and Learning Chinese in Schools--Case studies in quality language education. Palgrave Macmillan.  

(3) Moloney, R. & Xu, H.L. (2015) (Eds). Exploring innovative pedagogy for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. Springer.

(4) Xu, H.L. (2007). Aspects of Chaoshan grammar: a synchronic description of the Jieyang dialect. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 22. Project on Linguistic Analysis. University of California, Berkeley, USA. Pp.1-375. 

 Book Chapters

(1) Yap, Foong Ha, and Huiling Xu (2022). "Indefiniteness, interrogativity, and speaker stance: Insights from the extended uses of ‘what’-words in Chaozhou." Journal of Pragmatics, 200, 158-179.

(2) Xu, H.L. & Moloney, R. (2020). Motivation for Learning Chinese in the Australian Context: A Research Focus on Tertiary Students. In The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning. Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030283797?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ChapterAuthorCongrat 

(3) Xu, H. L & Hanley.J. (2020). Developing Learner Autonomy: A Comparative Analysis of Tertiary Chinese and Spanish Language Cohorts. In Fornasiero, J., Reed, S.M.A., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., Enomoto, K., Xu, H.L. (2020) (Eds.) Intersections in Language Planning and Policy Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures. Springer. 

(4) Fornasiero, J., Read, S, M.A., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., & Xu, H.L. (2020). Intersections: A Paradigm for Languages and Cultures? In Fornasiero, J., Reed, S.M.A., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., Enomoto, K., Xu, H.L. (Eds.) Intersections in Language Planning and Policy Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures. Springer. 

(5) Xu, H.L & Moloney. R. (2017). Moving between diverse cultural contexts: how important is intercultural learning to Chinese Heritage Language Learners. In Jin, T. H & Dervin, F. (Eds.) Interculturality in Chinese Language Education. Pp 151-176. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK. 

(6) Xu, H.L & Moloney, R. (2017). Developing Metacognition and Interculturality in Heritage Language Learners. In Trifonas, P.P & Aravossitas, T. (Eds.) Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education. Pp. 1-23. Springer International Publishing . doi:10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_23-1) 

(7) Xu, H.L. & Moloney, R. (2015). Tapping into Teachers' practical knowledge as a foundation of innovative practice:  narratives of international experience from Chinese CFL teachers. In Moloney, R. & Xu, H.L. (Eds.), Exploring innovative pedagogy for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. Springer.

(8) Moloney, R. & Xu. H.L. (2015). Taking the initiative to innovate in pedagogies for Chinese as a foreign language. In Moloney, R. & Xu, H.L. (Eds.), Exploring innovative pedagogy for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. Springer. 

(9) Moloney, R. & Xu. H.L. (2015). Developing intercultural CFL learners: an innovative tertiary classroom case study. In Moloney, R. & Xu, H.L. (Eds.), Exploring innovative pedagogy for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. Springer.  

(10) Xu, H.L. & Moloney, R. (2014a). Identifying Chinese heritage learners' motivations, learning needs and learning goals: A case study of a cohort of heritage learners in an Australian university. Language Learning in Higher Education, 4(2), 365 -393, ISSN (Online) 2191-6128, ISSN (Print) 2191-611X, DOI: 10.1515/cercles-2014-0020  

(11) Xu, H.L. & Moloney, R. (2014b). Are they more the same or different?  A case study of the diversity of Chinese learners in a mixed class at an Australian university. In Zhou, S. M., Liu, G. Q. & Hong, L. J. (Eds.), Teaching Chinese: challenges in a globalized world. (pp: 176-216). Fundan University Press, Shanghai, China. (indexed in google scholar and cited by 3) 

(12) Moore, S. & Xu, H. L. (2014). Where the Academy Meets the Workplace: Communication Needs of Tertiary-level Accounting Students. In Elke Stracke (Ed.) Intersections: Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place (pp. 112-128). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. 

(13) Xu, H.L. & S. Matthews (2013). On the semantics continuum of the causative constructions in Chaozhou dialect and Taiwanese Southern Min. In Xu.M..Z. and T. Huang (Eds.), Overseas diaspora and homeland culture. Huacheng Publishing House, Guangzhou, China. 

(14) Xu, H.L. & S. Matthews (2011). On the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the morpheme kai in the Chaozhou dialect. In Yap. F. H., K. Grunow-Harsta, J. Wrona (Eds) Nominalization in Asian Languages- Diachronic and typological perspectives. John Benjamin.  

Refereed Journal Articles

(1) Yap, F. H & Xu, H.L. (2022) Indefiniteness, interrogativity, and speaker stance: insights from the extended uses of 'what'-words in Chaozhou. Journal of Pragmatics.

(2) Liu, H.Q., Dervin, F. Xu, H.L., Moloney, R. (2019). “They have it better there”: Chinese immigrant teachers’ beliefs, imaginaries and ideologies in cross-national comparisons. Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. 

(3) 吴春相，许惠玲 （2016）从语法和修辞的界面看相关语言结构的创新和演化—兼谈对外汉语教学语法体系的动态调整。[国际汉语教学研究] （11） [Wu, C. X. & Xu, H.L. (2016). On the innovation and evolution of language structures from the perspectives of syntax and rhetoric--with a discussion of the dynamic change of pedagogical grammar of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Journal of International Chinese Teaching (11)3. 

(4) Tsukada, K., Xu, H.L. & Xu Rattanasone, N. (2015). "The perception of Mandarin lexical tones by listeners of different linguistic backgrounds". Chinese As a Second Language Research, 4(2), 141-161.

(5)  Moloney, R., & Xu, H.L. (2015). Transitioning beliefs in teachers of Chinese as a foreign language: An Australian case study. Cogent Education,  DOI:10.1080/2331186X.2015.1024960

(5)  Xu, H.L. & Moloney, R. (2014a). Identifying Chinese heritage learners' motivations, learning needs and learning goals: A case study of a cohort of heritage learners in an Australian university. Language Learning in Higher Education, 4(2), 365–393, ISSN (Online) 2191-6128, ISSN (Print) 2191-611X, DOI: 10.1515/cercles-2014-0020

(6) Xu, H. L. & Moloney, R. (2011a). Perceptions of interactive whiteboard pedagogy in the teaching of Chinese language. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 27(2), 307-325.

(7) Xu, H.L. & R. Moloney. (2011b). “It makes the whole learning experience better": student feedback on the use of the interactive whiteboard in learning Chinese at tertiary level. Asian Social Science (November Special edition)