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Ren Songsha

Ren Songsha

PhD Student (FT)

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Biography

Chief Supervisor:
Prof. Guangwei Hu
 

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • MA in Applied Linguistics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2019)

Research Interests

  • Academic literacy
  • Scholarly communication
  • Language and literacy education
  • (Critical) discourse analysis

Research

Title of thesis

Publishing in a professional academic context: A case study of Chinese medical researchers

Description of thesis research

The study is to explore how medical researchers negotiate their scholarly publishing endeavours against the competing demands of various activities in their professional academic context. Specifically, it aims to explore the situated contexts and the motives of major stakeholders for the medical researchers’ scholarly publishing activities, identify the challenges that the medical researchers’ face in their scholarly publishing activities, and pinpoint the strategies adopted to cope with their challenges.

Publications

 

Publications

 

  1. Ren, S. (2021 March). Testing usefulness of reading comprehension exam at the tertiary level in China. Paper accepted for the Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference: Educating for Innovation, Nurturing for Society, Singapore.

  2. Ren, S., & Teo, P. (2020 March). Inter/nationalizing universities in China: A corpus-based genre analysis of the university president’s message. Paper accepted for the American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, Denver, USA.

  3. Ren, S. (2019 October). Self-promotion in higher education: Discourses of Chinese universities. Paper presented for the 8th International Conference on New Discourse in Contemporary China, Dalian, China.

  4. Ren, S., & Teo, P. (2019 June). The marketization of higher education in China: A genre analysis of university presidents’ messages. Paper presented for 23rd DiscourseNet Conference, Bergamo, Italy.

  5. Ren, S., & Teo, P. (2019 June). Glocalizing higher education in China: A critical genre analysis of university presidents’ messages. Paper presented for the 10th Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN) Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

  • Teo, P., & Ren, S. (2019). Marketization of universities in China: A critical discourse analysis of the university president’s message. Discourse & Communication, 13(5), 539-561.
 

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