Selected Publications by DALS students
Chen, H., & Hu, G. (2024). Investigating relationships among students’ affective, behavioral and cognitive engagement with peer feedback on EFL writing. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 84, 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2024.101430
Chen Haitao
Deng, Y., & Feng, D. (William). (2021).公共危机中企业社会责任的多模态语篇建构 (Multimodal discursive construction of corporate social responsibility during public health crisis). 外语教学(Foreign Language Education), 5, 13-18.
Deng Yi
Deng, Y., & Feng, D. (William). (2022). From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports. Visual Communication, 23(4), 583-609. https://doi.org/10.1177/14703572221102180 (Original work published 2024)
Deng Yi
Deng, Y., Liu, D., & Feng, D. (William). (2023). Students’ perceptions of peer review for assessing digital multimodal composing: the case of a discipline-specific English course. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 48(8), 1254–1267. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2227358
Deng Yi
Han, D., & Qian, D. D. (2024). Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures. System, 120, 103207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103207
Han Dongjing
Huang, Y., & Li, D. (2023). Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts. Lingua, 295, 103610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103610
Huang Yueyue
Huang, Y., Jia, H., & Li, D. (2025). Transvocal Stance in Academic Translation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Grammatical stance in Translated Applied Linguistics English Research Article Abstracts. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 101472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101472
Huang Yueyue
Jo, C., Huang, C.-R., & Kim, S.-A. (2022). Linguistic synesthesia in Korean: A compound word-based study of cross-modal directionality. Linguistic Research, 39(2), 275-296. https://doi.org/10.17250/khisli.39.2.202206.002
Jo Charmhun
Li, M., Feng, D. (William), & Deng, Y. (2024). Frontiers and new trends of international research on multimodal discourse analysis. 现代外语 (Modern Foreign Languages), 47(3), 419–430.
Li Mengjie
Liu, M., & Chen, Y. (2023). Blessing or curse? Recontextualizing ‘996’ in China’s overwork debate. Critical Discourse Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2289448
Chen Yunqiao
Liu, M., Zhao, R., & Feng, J. (2022). Gender performances on social media: A comparative study of three top key opinion leaders in China. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1046887
Zhao Ruinan
Liu, M., Zhao, R., & Ngai, C. S. B. (2022). Vaccines, media and politics: A corpus-assisted discourse study of press representations of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. PLoS ONE, 17(12), e0279500. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279500
Zhao Ruinan
Liu, Y., & Li, D. (2024). Intersecting language and society: a prototypical study of Cinderella story translations in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02719-w
Liu Yanjin
Luo, J., & Li, D. (2022). Universals in machine translation? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 27(1), 31–58. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19127.luo
Luo Jinru
Luo, Y., & Hu, G. (2024). ‘She should have explained and convinced me!’: student engagement with supervisory feedback on undergraduate dissertations. Teaching in Higher Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2394041
Luo Yuehan
Luo, Y., & Hu, G. (2024a). ‘All my effort in writing the first draft was wasted!’: Engagement with supervisory feedback on undergraduate theses. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688241263904
Luo Yuehan
Ning, J., Peng, G., Liu, Y., & Li, Y. (2022). The effect of simultaneous exposure on the attention selection and integration of segments and lexical tones by Urdu-Cantonese bilingual speakers. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.918737
Li Yingnan
Pan, Z. (2022). The Wiley handbook of collaborative online learning and global engagement. Educational Review, 76(2), 432. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2147749
Zhao Pan
Shi, J., Peng, G., & Li, D. (2022). Figurativeness matters in the second language processing of collocations: Evidence from a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment. Language Learning, 73(1), 47–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12516
Shi Jinfang
Uştuk, Ö., Ye, X., & Hu, G. (2025). Examining Teacher Questioning in English‐Medium Instruction Classrooms: A Four‐Tier Analytical Procedure. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3382
Ye Xuejun
Wan, M., Zhong, Y., Gao, X., Lee, Y. M., & Huang, C. (2023). Fake news, real emotions: Emotion Analysis of COVID-19 Infodemic in Weibo. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 15(3), 815–827. https://doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2023.3295806
Zhong Yin
Wang, Q., & Hu, G. (2022). What surprises, interests and confuses researchers? A frame-based analysis of knowledge emotion markers in research articles. Lingua, 279, 103426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2022.103426
Wang Qian
Wang, Q., & Hu, G. (2023). Expressions of interest in research articles: Geo-academic location and time as influencing factors. Lingua, 293, 103580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103580
Wang Qian
Wang, Q., & Hu, G. (2023a). Disciplinary and gender-based variations: A frame-based analysis of interest markers in research articles. English for Specific Purposes, 70, 177–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2022.12.006
Wang Qian
Wang, Q., & Hu, G. (2024). “This is perplexing because. . .”: Examining the impact of gender and geo-academic location on expressions of confusion in research articles. Language Sciences, 105, 101647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101647
Wang Qian
Wang, Q., & Hu, G. (2024). Surprise as a knowledge emotion in research articles: Variation across disciplines, genders, geo-academic locations and time. Language & Communication, 99, 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.007
Wang Qian
Wang, X., & Huang, C.-R. (2021). From Contact Prevention to Social Distancing: The Co-Evolution of Bilingual Neologisms and Public Health Campaigns in Two Cities in the Time of COVID-19. SAGE Open, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211031556
Wang Xiaowen
Wang, X., Ahrens, K. & Huang, C. (2022). The distance between illocution and perlocution: A tale of different pragmemes to call for social distancing in two cities. Intercultural Pragmatics, 19(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-0001
Wang Xiaowen
Wang, Y., & Feng, D. (William). (2021). History, modernity, and city branding in China: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi’an’s promotional videos on social media. Social Semiotics, 33(2), 402–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1870405
WANG Yilei
Wang, Y., & Feng, D. (William). (2022). Identity performance and self-branding in social commerce: A multimodal content analysis of Chinese wanghong women’s video-sharing practice on TikTok. Discourse, Context & Media, 50, 100652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100652
WANG Yilei
Wang, Z., & Liu, K. (2024). Linguistic Variations Between Translated and Non-Translated English Chairman’s Statements in Corporate Annual Reports: A Multidimensional Analysis. SAGE Open, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241249349
Wang Zhongliang
Wang, Z., Cheung, A. K. F., & Liu, K. (2024). Entropy-based syntactic tree analysis for text classification: a novel approach to distinguishing between original and translated Chinese texts. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(3), 984–1000. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae030
Wang Zhongliang
Wang, Z., Ho L. K., & Liu, K. (2023) Linguistic Variation in L2 Writing and Learner Translation: A Corpus-Based Multidimensional Analysis. Translation Quarterly 110: 90-113.
Wang Zhongliang
Wu, K., & Li, D. (2022). Are translated Chinese Wuxia fiction and western heroic literature similar? A stylometric analysis based on stylistic panoramas. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(4), 1376–1393. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac019
Wu Kan
Xiao, Y., & Zhao, A. (2020). Individualized Learning in Context: Constructivists’ Teaching Philosophy of Academic Writing for EAL Learners. International Journal of English Linguistics, 10(5), 360. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n5p360
Angel Zhao
Yang, Y., & Qian, D. D. (2019). Promoting L2 English learners’ reading proficiency through computerized dynamic assessment. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 33(5–6), 628–652. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2019.1585882
Yang Yanfeng
Yang, Y., & Qian, D. D. (2022). Enhancing EFL Learners’ Reading Proficiency through Dynamic Assessment. Language Assessment Quarterly, 20(1), 20–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2022.2132160
Yang Yanfeng
Ye, X., & Hu, G. (2024). Student and teacher beliefs about oral corrective feedback in junior secondary English classrooms. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2023-0153
Ye Xuejun
Ye, X., & Hu, G. (2024a). Teachers’ stated beliefs and practices regarding L2 motivational strategies: A mixed-methods study of misalignment and contributing factors. System, 121, 103236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2024.103236
Ye Xuejun
Ye, X., & Hu, G. (2025). The effects of three motivational interventions on EFL learners’ L2MSS: A longitudinal perspective. System, 129, 103584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2024.103584
Ye Xuejun
Zhao, A., & Xiao, Y. (2025). Understanding teacher identity construction through hybridity theory: a case study of a Chinese-Canadian teaching English in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04276-8
Angel Zhao
Zhao, M., & Li, D. (2021). Translator positioning in characterisation: a corpus-based study of English translations ofLuotuo Xiangzi. Perspectives, 30(6), 1074–1096. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2021.2000626
Zhao Minru
Zhao, P. (2024). Book Review: Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective, by Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Yi-Hui Huang, Dong Dong, Hai Liang, Guanxiong Huang, and Sibo Wang. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(3), 816–819. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241260836
Zhao Pan
Zhao, R., Gong, Q., & Chen, Y. (2024). Examining negative transfer in Cantonese learners of English as a foreign language: an optimality theory approach to English syllable acquisition. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2024-0020
Zhao Ruinan
Zhong, Y., & Huang, C. (2020). Sweetness or Mouthfeel: A corpus-based study of the conceptualization of taste. Linguistic Research, 37(3), 359–387. https://doi.org/10.17250/khisli.37.3.202012.001
Zhong Yin
Zhong, Y., Ahrens, K., & Huang, C. (2023). Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors. Linguistics Vanguard, 9(1), 245–255. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0020
Zhong Yin
Zhong, Y., Ahrens, K., & Huang, C. (2023a). Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01677-z
Zhong Yin
Zhong, Y., Huang, C., & Dong, S. (2022). Bodily sensation and embodiment: A corpus-based study of gustatory vocabulary in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 50(1), 196–230. https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2022.0008
Zhong Yin
Zhong, Y., Wan, M., Ahrens, K., & Huang, C. R. (2022). Sensorimotor norms for Chinese nouns and their relationship with orthographic and semantic variables. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(8), 1000–1022. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2035416
Zhong Yin