Enhua Guo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate Professor at Ocean University of China

Dental fear and anxiety are highly prevalent among children and have been shown to lead to irregular use of dental services. Previous research has suggested that while touch can alleviate the patient’s stress and help in accomplishing dental procedures, it can also be a source of stress or used to restrain the patient. In this study, we explore the...

Review of International perspectives on teaching and learning academic English in turbulent times

genre-mixing

This paper looks into the systematic organization of teacher-initiated turn-taking in online GSL (German as second language) sessions conducted via one of the video-conferencing platforms (Tencent Meeting), and cross-examines the virtual instructional environment created by it with face-to-face GSL instructions. Drawing on the framework of Multimod...

genre-mixing

This study investigates a variety of ways in which dental clinicians and adult guardians touch child patients to get them to participate in dental procedures in China’s mainland. Children at the dentist’s office often experience pain and show fear, and dental care practitioners as well as adult guardians (in our case, parents and grandparents) perf...

genre-mixing

Abstract：Conversation analysts treat conversation as social action; this sociological orientation of CA has an implication that it does not exclude non-verbal actions from CA’s remit since its foundation. This article discusses the theoretical and methodological succession from ethnomethodology, through CA to CA-based multimodal interaction researc...

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients and a leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Degenerative changes such as glomerular hypertrophy, hyperfiltration, widening of basement membranes, tubulointerstitial fibrosis, glomerulosclerosis and podocytopathy manifest in various degrees of prote...