Kan Qian

Kan Qian is Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Head of Chinese in the Department of Languages, and a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy. Before joining OU, she taught undergraduate Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Lancaster University. She also worked for the BBC World Service as translator and presenter.

Qian is passionate about language teaching and learning, especially technology-enhanced language learning. She has authored many language teaching books including ‘Developing Writing Skills in Chinese’ (2013), ‘Colloquial Chinese, 2nd ed.’ (2009) and ‘Colloquial Chinese 2’ (2007). She led the development of OU’s Chinese character learning app ‘Chinse Characters First Steps’.