Curriculum Vitae updated September, 2024

Lecturer

Faculty of English Language and Culture

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Address: 2 Baiyun Avenue, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510420, China

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Caihui-Zhang

E-mail: zcaihui95@gdufs.edu.cn

I am a lecturer at Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. I obtained my PhD degree at Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, majoring at Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics. In 2022, I was a visiting PhD student at Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science.

My research interests include a) the neuroplasticity associated with second language learning; b) individuals' cognitive differences in language acquisition; c) the context, platforms and tools in facilitating language education; d) the methodology and measures in assessing language proficiency; e) the methodology of meta-analysis and computational modelling.

Feel free to contact me if we share some research interests!

Education

2017-2023 MA & Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics

Bilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), China.

2021-2022 Visiting Ph.D. student

Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Work Experience

July. 2023-Present Lecturer

Faculty of English Language and Culture

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China.

Course: Communicative English for Chinese Learners (National Top Courses)

Publications

Zhang Caihui¹, Jianqiao Ye², Jing Yang^*.(2023). Brain mechanism underlying learning Chinese as a second language. [J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 31(5), 747-758.

Zhang Caihui¹, Haiwei Zhang², Xiaoqing Zheng³, Jing Yang^*. (2020). A Comparative Study of English Proficiency Measures in Chinese-English Bilinguals. [J]. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 52(5), 701-712.

Research Grants

Caihui Zhang (Host). Research funds from Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2025-2026. The Cognitive Mechanism of “Modality” in Multimedia Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning (201-X5224220).

Caihui Zhang (Host). Research Start-up Funds for Introducing Talents at GDUFS, 2023-2031. Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning (2023RC057).

Caihui Zhang (Host). Postgraduate Research and Innovation Projects at GDUFS (2019-2021). A Comparative Study of English Proficiency Measures in Chinese-English Bilinguals (19GWCXXM-10).

Academic Service

Anonymous Reviewer of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Last Updated: 03/10/2025