Position: Lecturer
Department: Linguistics
Research areas: Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics, Cross-cultural Communication, Foreign Language Education.
Office: Room 531, Building No.1 (North)
Email: zhuyuaileens@163.com
BIO
Xinqing (Aileen) Wang is a lecturer of the Faculty of English Language and Culture at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS). She received her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. Xinqing does research in second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, cross-cultural communication, foreign language education. With a growing interest in language teaching and assessment, she is currently teaching a series of Public Speaking courses and Communicative English for Chinese Learners. She is also a translator and personal essayist, with a keen interest in creativity and leadership education.
DEGREES
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW)
M.A. in Linguistics (Distinguished Graduate of 2015), Shandong University,
B.A. in English & B.E. in International Economics and Trade, Shandong University
TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2020.09-Present Lecturer, Faculty of English Language and Culture, GDUFS
2021.10-Present Part-time researcher, Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, GDUFS
2020.03-06 Teaching assistant, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, VUW
2018/2020.03-06 Teaching assistant, School of Languages and Cultures, VUW
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Wang, X., Boers, F., & Warren, P. (2022). Prompting language learners to guess the meaning of idioms: do wrong guesses linger? Language Awareness, 33(1), 94–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2022. 2153859 (SSCI, A&HCI)
Wang, X. (2014). On the metaphor of Chinese verb 吃 (chi in pinyin, ‘eat’) from a cultural and cognitive perspective. Journal of Hunan Radio and Television University, 2, 22-25.
Book chapter
Wang, X., Boers, F., & Warren, P. (2020) Using literal underpinnings to help learners remember figurative idioms: Does the connection need to be crystal clear? In A. Piquer-Píriz & R. Alejo (Eds.) Metaphor in foreign language instruction (the Applications of Cognitive Linguistics series) (pp. 219-237). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Conference papers
2023.12 “Prompting learners to guess the meaning of idioms: Do wrong guesses linger?” Vocab@Vic. Wellington, New Zealand.
2023.8 “Embracing AIGC in compiling digital textbooks: an explorative study”. Annual Foreign Language Conference of Guangdong, Shaoguan, China.
2022.11 “How does learners’ perceived transparency of idioms affect L2 idiom retention”. The 10th Cognitive Neurolinguistics Symposium. GDUFS, Guangzhou, China.
2021.10 “Applying Classroom-based Formative Assessment in fostering public speakers’ self-efficacy”. The 3rd National Forum of Second Language Learning in Classroom. Wuhan, China. (“Excellence Conference Paper Award”)
2019. 07 “Does learners’ perceived transparency of idioms affect L2 idiom retention, and is this influenced by their proficiency?” Vocab@Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
2018. 06 “Metaphor awareness of figurative idioms in second language idiom learning.” The 12th conference of RaAM – the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, Hong Kong, China.
2017. 11 “The literal underpinning of figurative idioms: What do learners make of it?” The ALANZ/ALAA/ ALTAANZ Conference (The Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, The Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, The Association of Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand), Auckland, New Zealand.
2016. 10 “Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Idiom Learning: an exploratory study.” The 5th National Symposium of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Jinan, China.
Digital textbook
Digital course content for the textbook Understanding Contemporary China: A Public Speaking Course on u.unipus.cn, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP).
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Research projects I'm currently working on include:
1. Research on the Cognitive Mechanism and Acquisition Patterns of Second Language Idioms by Chinese Learners, Principal Investigator.
This is a government-funded project, one of the Guangdong Province Educational Science Planning Projects for Higher Education (2022-2025).
2. Vocabulary coverage for adequate reading comprehension in L2 English, Member of an international research project based in Japan (Principal Investigator: Tim Stoeckel)
COURES TAUGHT
Communicative English for Chinese Learners (I & II)
English Public Speaking and Debating Skills
English Public Speaking for Academic Purposes
Understanding Contemporary China: English Public Speaking Course
AWARDS
‘Distinguished Teacher of the Year’ at GDUFS (2023-2024)
Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2nd Prize at GDUFS (2023-2024)
First Prize in the 3rd Annual Teaching Innovation Competition for Teachers at GDUFS (2023)
‘Distinguished Graduate of Shandong Province in 2015’, awarded by the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Shandong Province.
ENGAGEMENT
Manuscript Reviewer for the Journal International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL)
Vocabulary Group Coordinator (2018-2019), LALS, Victoria University of Wellington
Editorial Team for the Bilingual Annual Issue of the Magazine Poetry World'
Coach for GDUFS Public Speaking Team
