Dongxia Nie is a second-year DPhil candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research investigates the role of feedback in screen media-based English learning for young learners, with a particular focus on feedback specificity, feedback language (L1 vs L2), and the mediating and moderating factors that influence feedback effectiveness. She is also interested in how adaptive and culturally sensitive feedback can be supported by AI tools to enhance language learning outcomes.More broadly, her research interests include educational technology, feedback and assessment, language learning for young learners, and evidence synthesis in applied linguistics.
In addition to her doctoral research, Dongxia works as a Research Assistant at the AIEOU Hub, where she contributes to the conceptualisation, development, and implementation of interdisciplinary research projects on AI in Education. Her work also involves stakeholder engagement across different sectors.
She is a Co-Investigator on the State-of-Play Meta-Review on Applied Linguistics, supported by the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), and serves as Bibliography Editor for Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics, an international journal dedicated to synthetic research. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dongxia worked for over a decade in English language education and educational consulting in China and the UK.
Supervisors
Victoria Murphy and Faidra Faitaki