- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Language Development and Disorders
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Online and Blended Learning
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Topic Modeling
- Student Assessment and Feedback
Fudan University
2018-2025
Walter de Gruyter (Germany)
2023-2024
Jubail Industrial College
2023-2024
UNSW Sydney
2023-2024
Baidu (China)
2023-2024
University of York
2023
Harvard University Press
2018-2020
Harvard University
2016-2018
Research on feedback in writing has predominantly focused its effectiveness improving surface-level linguistic accuracy, with limited attention to how students perceive and engage written qualitative as an interactive tool for development. This study addresses this gap by emphasizing the role of feedback, defined descriptive comments that address both content element, promoting deeper engagement critical thinking student writing. Using explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, examines...
Background Prior research has underscored negative impacts of perinatal parental depression on offspring cognitive performance in early childhood. However, little is known about the effects during adolescence development. Methods and findings This study used longitudinal data from nationally representative China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The sample included 2,281 adolescents aged 10–15 years (the median age was 13 with an interquartile range between 11 14 years) 2012 when their parents...
The study examines a corpus of 306 request emails written by 32 English-speaking (ES) teachers and 121 L2 learners from distinctive L1 backgrounds (i.e., Chinese, French, Spanish) with different levels proficiency. Pragmatic competence is analyzed through the coding direct indirect strategies used in formal informal email writing. Findings reveal influences communicative situation, background, proficiency on pragmatic First, show significantly lower degree situational variability compared ES...
Mid-adolescence is a period of considerable potential growth in the language for academic writing. Yet, to date, few writing studies explore development during this and even fewer focus on longitudinal or diverse samples. In study, we examined skills socio-economically sample followed from sixth seventh grade ( n = 124). each grade, participants wrote summaries science text. Subsequently, were scored quality (WQ) analyzed productive (lexico-syntactic discourse features). Participants...
Purpose This article aims to investigate the longitudinal Syntactic Complexity (SC) development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and variations by grade level. Design/Approach/Methods study conducts analysis SC among 199 high school EFL in eastern China. The corpus contains 920 argumentative essays on scientifically socially contentious topics. We employ Second Analyzer (L2SCA) examine syntactic features these through 11 computerized indices measuring different dimensions...
Abstract This study aims to examine group trends and individual variability of descriptive Grammatical Complexity (GC) in writing development. A longitudinal sample 41 high school EFL learners is followed for an academic year (12 waves data collection), resulting a corpus 492 texts, coded eight GC features writing. Our analysis reveals different sets relevant capturing At the level, two phrasal-level could capture significant changes means over time; at four types clausal phrasal showed...
Book retelling has been frequently used as an indicator of children’s reading proficiency. However, how performance varies across narrative and expository texts whether that different implications for proficiency remains understudied. The present study examined 85 high-poverty second- third-graders’ books. A parallel coding scheme was developed to evaluate on fluency, content, language complexity. Children’s compared text types analyzed in relation Findings revealed similarities differences...
Facilitation strategies play a critical role in helping instructors teach effectively an online environment. However, there is lack of research on how different facilitation impact the learning experience. To address this gap, our study surveyed 5980 college students from two universities China and analysed associations between student satisfaction using multivariate logistic regression analyses. Our findings reveal that aimed at managerial technical purposes have effects with compared to...