- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Student Assessment and Feedback
- Synthesis and biological activity
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Quinazolinone synthesis and applications
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
Jilin University
2019-2023
Jilin International Studies University
2019-2023
National Health and Family Planning Commission
2022
Peking University
2022
University of Auckland
2019
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease where substantial heterogeneity in clinical presentation urgently requires better stratification of patients for the development drug trials and care. In this study we explored through crowdsourcing approach, DREAM Prize4Life ALS Stratification Challenge. Using data from >10,000 1479 community-based patient registers, more than 30 teams developed new approaches machine learning clustering, outperforming best current...
Abstract Peer feedback has been widely employed in writing instruction various contexts. However, studies into its effects on improving students’ performance, particularly long-term effects, are under-represented. To fill the research gap, we adopted a pre-, post-, and delayed post-test quasi-experimental design to investigate of peer intervention. Two intact classes EFL students from Chinese university were recruited, with one class participating activities other receiving collective their...
The current study examines the effect of teacher feedback on fostering self-regulated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writers. Adopting a quasi-experimental design, this was conducted among seventy students from two parallel intact English writing classes at tertiary level. While conventional level task used in control group, process and self-regulation with supplementary activities adopted for treatment group. This SRL-based intervention lasted one semester. Students took pre-test, an...
Professor Lawrence Jun Zhang is a leading scholar in the field of language education, especially teaching English to speakers other languages (TESOL), who has published extensively on metacognition international journals such as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Metacognition and Learning, British Journal Educational Psychology, Second Language Writing, Awareness, System, Psycholinguistic Research, Frontiers Sustainability, Reading Writing Current among others. He was sole recipient...