Xiaoli Wu is a PhD student at the faculty of Psychology and
Educational Sciences, University of Leuven. She obtained a BA in
English Language Education, and then completed a MA in Applied
Linguistics in 2003 at Shenyang Normal University in China. In 2002,
she obtained another Masters degree in Educational Sciences from the
University of Leuven. She is currently working on a PhD thesis on
the role of student mediating variables between instruction and
learning. The research is supervised by Prof. Dr. Joost Lowyck and
Prof. Dr. Lies Sercu.