Gender: Female

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Linguistics

Position: Faculty Member

Research Direction: Foreign Language Teaching

Personal Homepage:

Office: Room 426, North Building 1

Office Phone:

Email: 200411299@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn

Educational Background:

2001-2007 Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

1995-1997 M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology

1991-1995 B.A. in English, Department of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology

Work Experience:

2004-Present Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

1997-2004 English Department, Harbin Institute of Technology

Courses Taught in the Last Five Years:

English Pronunciation, Communicative English for Chinese Learners, English Listening, Applied Phonetics

Teaching and Research Projects:

1. "Teaching Reform Project on Performance Assessment and Testing in English Pronunciation Course," funded by Higher Education Bureau of Guangdong Province, 2015-2018.

2. Participated in the construction of national quality courses and national quality resource-sharing courses for "Communicative English" and "English Pronunciation."

3. Team leader for online video course "English Phonetics", with several rounds of SPOCs already conducted.

4. Completed Project for Teaching Quality in Higher Education of Guangdong Province, "Applied Linguistics Teaching Team Building," July 2014 - December 2016, second project coordinator.

Main Publications:

1. Liu Ying, "A Study on English and Chinese Phonological Awareness, Pinyin Skills, and English Word Reading Ability of Chinese Children," Science Press, 2011.

2. Participated in the compilation of the "New Communicative English" textbook, which has been published.

Awards Received:

1. May 2018, Second Prize of the Eighth Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, "Innovation and Practice of English Major Talent Cultivation Model Driven by Two Wheels, Aiming at Three Standards, and Coordinated by Four Parties," ranked in the top five, Department of Education, Guangdong Province.

2. May 2019, Second Prize of the University Teaching Achievement Award, "Promoting Learning through Research and Mutual Enhancement: Innovation and Practice of English Major Talent Cultivation System Based on Research-Oriented Teaching," ranked in the top ten, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

3. Received several university-level teaching awards (e.g., 2017, 2023).

Articles published:

Liu, Y. & Dong, Y. P. “The Relationship between English-Chinese Phonological Awareness and English Word Reading Ability in Chinese Children”, Psychological Science, 2006, Issue 04, 960-962.

Liu, Y. “A review of Online English Accent Corpus”, Foreign Language Audio-Visual Teaching, 2007, Issue 01, 41-45.

Liu, Y. "Experimental Study on English Pinyin Ability of Primary School Children," Journal of Shandong Normal University, College of Foreign Languages (Basic English Education), 2009.

Liu, Y. "Syllable structure and orthographic complexity of pinyin in Chinese children’s Chinese phoneme deletion task," Canadian Social Science, 2009.

Huang, L. N.& Liu, Y. "A Comparative Study on the Effects of Movie Clips and Phonetic Materials in English Pronunciation Teaching," Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2016, Issue 2, 126-131, 144.

Yan, H., Lin, J., & Liu, Y. (2018). “EFL Pronunciation Training with Computer-Assisted Adaptive Peer Review”. English Language Teaching, 11(11).

Academic Association:

Member of the First Executive Committee, Phonetics Teaching and Research Professional Committee, China English-Chinese Comparative Research Association.