Selected publications
My areas of academic interest include foreign language education, project-based instruction and learning, L2 vocabulary acquisition, L2 oral fluency, instructional models, and norms for academic writing. I have authored and co-authored over 80 journal articles on those issues.
2021, A survey of problems in foreign language teaching practice (with Zhai Yu & Zhang Chen, in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, (1):46-56.
——, Revisiting specification requirements on foreign language talent cultivation (in Chinese), Shandong Foreign Language Teaching, (1):49-58.
——, Teaching reform and practice of individualized doing-learning-using integrated English learning platform course (with Liu Hao, in Chinese), China Education of Light Industry, (5):72-79.
——, A review of academic English teaching under the framework of college English curriculum requirements (with Liu Jia, in Chinese), Future and Development, (2):103-107.
2020, Effects of form-meaning mapping features on English verb argument construction acquisition (with Xu Chengping, in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, (2):27-35.
2019, The rightOempover approach to curriculum designing for English for academic purposes (with Liu Jia, in Chinese), Second Language Learning Research, (2):1-12.
——, EFL learners’ construction of individual networks of practice in an Individualized English Learning course (with Zuo Hongshan, in Chinese), Foreign Language World, (5):72-79.
——, An analysis of Gui Shichun’s academic influence and contribution (with Liu Hao, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (3): 431-439.
2018, Evaluating the course efficiency of empowered “Individualized English Learning” from learners’ perspective (with Liu Hao, in Chinese), Foreign Language Education in China, (1): 18-25.
——, Utilizing Wikipedia for innovative task design in “empowering” English pedagogy (with Wang Dongyan, in Chinese), Future and Development, (3):93-97.
——, An experimental study on project-based suprasegmentals learning (with Wang Dongyan, in Chinese), Nankai Linguistics, (2): 44-52.
——, Letting students choose what to learn: An analysis of the rightOempower effects from student report (with Wang Peijie & Xia Saihui, in Chinese), Foreign Language Research in China, (1):3-12.
2017, Learner effort in project-based language learning (with Xia Saihui, in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, (3):78-88.
——, On designing of “doing-learning-using integrated” platform courses for English majors in the light of National Quality Criteria (with Shao Yan, in Chinese), Foreign Language Education, (6): 47-51.
——, Design of the tree of competencies in collegial criteria for teaching undergraduate English majors (with Han Ziyu & Feng Guangwu, in Chinese), Foreign Languages in China, (4): 72-78.
——, Effects of position of gloss, language of gloss and student self-glossing on L2 English vocabulary learning through reading (with Xu Chengping, Liu Hao & Feng Ruiling, in Chinese), Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, (6):11-19, 61.
——, A study on relationships between English vocabulary learning strategies and depth of vocabulary knowledge (with Duan Guixiang, in Chinese), Foreign Language Education & Research, (1): 34-42.
——, The effect of pronunciation correction on English majors’ production of English vowels (with Wang Dongyan, in Chinese), Journal of Beijing International Studies University,(4):56-69.
2015, iPBL: A localized project-based English teaching and learning model (in Chinese), Foreign Languages in China, (2): 15-23.
——, Planning an innovation-cultivating curricular module for English major education (with Feng Guangwu, in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, (3):29-34.
——, Microgenesis in Chinese SLA research: Looking back and ahead (with Li Yuping, in Chinese), Future and Development, (5):90-93.
——, Chinese EFL learners' acquisition of English motion event “V+Psmall+Pbig” construction: An awareness-raising experiment (with Hu Fanghui, in Chinese), Foreign Language Education in China, (4):54-66.
2014, 20 years of cultivation of critical reading competence in China’s college English teaching: A review of literature (with Qi Bin, in Chinese),Journal of Higher Education Research, (1):90-95.
——, On leadership quotient of college English teachers from humanistic perspective (with Li Yuping, in Chinese), Overseas English, (3):1-2.
——, Ethical issues in foreign languages teaching research (with Liu Hao, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (3):420-428.
——, Projects: categorization and design (in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Literatures, (1).
2013, Vocabulary acquisition and use in project-based learning (with Cao Zhenzhen, in Chinese), in L. Yang (ed.), SLA in China. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
2012, Instruction-learning views of localized project-based learning (in Chinese), China University Teaching, (4):47-51.
2011, English major students’ evaluation of project-based learning (in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Literatures, (2):3-10.
——, A “Research-based English Learning course”: rationale and ideations (in Chinese), English Teachers, (2):2-6.
——, An experimental study of the effects of idiom types and modes of presentation on the direct learning of English idioms (with Wang Xiaomin, in Chinese), Journal of Sichuan College of Education, (4):83-89.
——, Surveying interest-driven out-of-class learning: A study of the “Individualized English Learning” course (with Xia Saihui, in Chinese), Foreign Language Education in China, (1):3-11.
2010, Three decades of project-based SL/FL learning and instruction: A review of literature (in Chinese), Foreign Languages in China, (2):68-74.
——, Lexicunion as a unit of EFL vocabulary acquisition (in Chinese), Journal of Chongqing University (Social Science Edition), (2):133-138.
——, The two “Three-in-one” approach to the “English Through Projects” course (with Xia Saihui, in Chinese), English Teachers, (11):13-16.
2009, Effects of word exposure frequency on incidental acquisition of English vocabulary by Chinese EFL learners (with Xu Feng, in English)，CELEA Journal, (1):3-11.
——, An analysis of the methodology in studies on dictionary use by Chinese EFL learners (with He Jianing, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (1):94-101.
——, An analysis of V-N collocation errors in CLEC (with Yang Shichao, in Chinese), Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, (2):39-44.
2008, Guided literature reading for MA students majoring in Applied Linguistics: some thoughts and practice (in Chinese), Degrees and Postgraduate Education, (7):37-40.
——, A framework for fuzzy assessment of communicative competence based on fuzzy mathematics (with Zhang Heng, in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, (6):433-439.
——, Ethnic identity and cultural fluency (with Long Jianhong, in Chinese), in Chen Xinren (ed.) Foreign Language Education and Ethnic Identity in the Globalization Context (pp.93-103). Beijing: Higher Education Press.
2007, Autonomatizing linguistic processing in L2 oral production (in English). In Hu, W. & Q. Wen (eds.) ELT in China (IV)(pp.819-837). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
——, Research-based learning by English majors-What is it about? (in Chinese) China University Teaching, (10):81-84.
2006, Strategy use in Chinese EFL learners’ processing of English idioms (with Wang Xiaomin, in English),CELEA Journal, (4):3-10.
——, EFL learners’ acquisition of English adjective-noun collocations: a quantitative study (with Chen Shuichi, in Chinese), Foreign Language Teaching and Research, (4):251-258.
——, Guided Reading: Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics (McCarthy, Cambridge University Press, 1998)(pp.D11-D28). Beijing: World Publishing Company (Beijing Branch).
2005, Schemes for English Major Education, in Zhang Jing and Liu Zijian (eds.) Schemes for Undergraduates Majors of Hunan University (Chinese-English bilingual)(pp.254-287). Changsha: Hunan University Press.
——, An overview of research on English learning motivation in China (with Wang Xiaomin, in Chinese), Foreign Language World, (4):58-65.
——, Professional development for college English teachers through problem-based teaching technique research (with Zeng Fangui, in Chinese), in Zeng Fangui & Zhang Wenzhong (eds), College English Teaching: Research on Reform and Practice (pp.2-9). Changsha: Hunan University Press.
2004, An empirical study on the development of English majors’ productive vocabulary (with Tong Shuhua, in Chinese), Journal of Xiangtan Normal University (Social Science Edition), (2):108-113.
——, A review of ESL/EFL idiom acquisition research abroad (with Wang Xiaomin, in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching Abroad, (4):7-15.
2003, Quantifying Chinese EFL learners’ outside class contact with English (with Wang Xiuzhen, in English), in Hu Wenzhong (ed.) ELT in China (III)(pp.537-557). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
——, A cognitive psychological model of L2 lexical competence development in the classroom setting (with Wu Xudong, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (4):373-384.
——, Autonomous learning in the foreign language classroom setting (in Chinese), Journal of Hunan University (Social Sciences), (6):95-100.
2002, 4/3/2 technique reconsidered (in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (4):418-422.
——, A comparative study of two translations and one annotated version of Babylon Revisited (with Guo Jingjing, in Chinese), Chinese Translators Journal, (2):58-60.
——, A quality evaluation of SLA/FLT experimental studies by Chinese researchers (With Wu Xudong, in Chinese), Foreign Language Teaching and Research, (1):35-44.
——, Fuzzy Marking: A new approach to marking oral proficiency (with Guo Jingjing, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (1):98-102.
——, The Development of L2 Oral Fluency in the EFL Classroom Setting (in English). Changsha, Hunan Education Press.
2001, On a figure of speech in spoken Chinese and English (in Chinese), Wuhan UniversityJournal (Humanity Sciences), (1):117-121.
——, Intention identification and meaning inference (in Chinese), in He, Z. & Ran, Y. (eds.) Pragmatics and Cognition: Relevance Theory Research Papers (pp.254-262). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
——, Oral communication anxieties: Some concepts reconsidered (in English)，Teaching English in China(2): 9-12.
——, Development of L2 oral fluency: a quantitative analysis (with Wu Xudong, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (4):341-351.
2000, Time-consuming and low-efficiency English teaching in China: problems and solutions—a response to Jing Shenghua (in Chinese). Wuhan UniversityJournal (supplementary edition) 176-181.
——, Helping students establish a beneficent cycle of autonomous English learning (in Chinese), Journal of College of Foreign Languages of Shandong Normal Univeristy, (2):82-86.
——, L2 oral fluency development: a qualitative analysis (in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (3):273-283.
1999, Research on second language oral fluency: A Survey (in Chinese), Foreign Language Teaching and Research, (2):41-48.
——, A theoretical model of L2 oral fluency development (in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (2):205-217.
1998, Some criticisms on research into foreign language teaching in China (in Chinese), in Zhao, G. (ed.) Teaching and Researching (pp.122-129). Nanchang: Jiangxi Higher Learning Press.
