Position：Professor

Department：Linguistics and Information Management

Research orientation：Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching

Office：434 in Teaching building 1

Email address：sherryx@gdufs.edu.cn

Curriculum Vitae

Yuanhua Xie is Professor of Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Ph.D. supervisor, postdoctoral collaborative supervisor, peer reviewer of National Social Science Fund of China, appraisal expert of National Social Science Project Achievements, and reviewer of Ph.D. and M.A. dissertations at the Center of Graduate Degree in Ministry of Education. She was once Vice-dean of International Commerce College and Director of the graduate office in Faculty of English Language and Culture. She completed her B.A. at Hubei Normal University; M.A. at Wuhan University, and Ph.D. at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She has supervised over 60 M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Leeds University.

Her recent interests in research are task design and learning mechanisms in Task Based Language Teaching. She has published over 30 research articles in CSSCI, SSCI journals, such as Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Modern Foreign Languages, Foreign Languages in China，Foreign Language Education and others. Also, she is an anonymous reviewer of professional refereed journals like Modern Foreign Languages, Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (English), System, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), etc.

Her research and publications mainly address the acquisition of English raising verbs; the roles of teachers, cognitive demands of tasks, cognitive abilities (creativity, aptitude) and other individual differences in L2 learners’ performance and learning in the framework of Task-based Language Teaching; task complexity and task sequencing in language performance and development.

Her books and published papers include mainly:

1. L2 Acquisition of English Raising Predicates by Chinese EFL Learners: An Integrated Parsing Model of Semantic and Syntactic Bootstrapping (2010), Science Press.

2. A New Essential Course on Linguistics (2001), China Social Science Press.

3. Effects of participatory structure of pre-task planning on EFL learners’ linguistic performance and alignment in the continuation writing task, System 114 (2023).

4. Exploring the effects of planning conditions and peer familiarity on Chinese EFL learners’ argumentative writing, System 115 (2023).

5. Creativity, planning time and oral narrative performance of Chinese EFL learners, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, 44 (2), 2021.

6. Exploring college EFL teachers’ perceptions and implementation of Task-based Language Teaching, Modern Foreign Languages, 42(2), 2019.

7. A study on the correlation between creativity and oral narrative performance of Chinese EFL learners, Foreign Languages in China, 15(1), 2018.

8. Semantic bootstrapping and L2 acquisition of English raising verbs: evidence from think-aloud protocols, Foreign Language Education, 37(4), 2016.

9. The acquisition of the expletive subjects of English raising verbs by Chinese EFL learners, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, 38(5), 2015.

10. Investigating the syntactic and semantic knowledge development of English raising verbs by Chinese EFL learners, Foreign Language Teaching and Research 46(4), 2014.

11. Investigating the performance development of English raising verbs by Chinese EFL learners, Modern Foreign Languages, 37(3), 2014.

12. Task-based Language Teaching and the revision of Communicative English for Chinese Learners, Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, (5), 2014.

Yuanhua Xie has been the principle investigator mainly for the following projects:

1. Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Task Design and Learning Mechanisms from the Perspectives of Cognitive Complexity and Individual Differences” (23BYY157). (200,000 RMB)

2. Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Task-based Language Teaching and the Role of teachers (13BYY082). (180, 000 RMB)

3. Project of the Social Science Fund of Guangdong Province: “The problems and Solutions of Task-based Language Teaching” (GD12XWW02).

4. Project of Teaching Reform Fund of Guangdong Province：Task-based Language Teaching and the revision of Communicative English for Chinese Learners (GDJG20142195).