Xinxin Wu

Jiangnan University

Introduction: As scholarly interest in metaphorical gestures has burgeoned in recent years, the exploration of these non-verbal communicative cues has primarily centered on domains, such as speeches, advertisements, and movies. Surprisingly, there exists a notable dearth of research specifically delving into the nuanced role of metaphorical gesture...

This narrative inquiry traces a Chinese college English teacher’s cognitive transformation in the teaching-research nexus over a 4-year time period from the perspective of sociocultural theory (SCT). Several stories were narrated based on the data from reflective journals, literature reading notes, and interaction notes to show how the participant...

This study reports on a longitudinal narrative case study of Lin, a tertiary level EFL teacher in China, exploring how she exercised her agency and achieved sustainable professional identity development in different phases of her career. Based on narrative data primarily from three rounds of semi-structured interviews and other sources of data, and...

The existing literature has revealed many issues related to Ph.D. students’ wellbeing, such as anxiety and stress, which are likely to cause Ph.D. student attrition or dropout. As one of the key coping strategies against psychological burnout, resilience has received increasing attention among various teacher groups. However, it still lacks a syste...

This paper reports on a corpus-driven study on teachers’ use of three personal metadiscourse markers, namely, engaging you, inclusive-we, and self-mentioning I, in teachers’ classroom discourse. The analysis is based on eight sessions of teacher contributions to classroom discourse from four native English-speaking English for Academic Purposes (EA...

While motivation plays an important role in language learning, few attempts have been made to explore its significance in second language (L2) pragmatics learning. The current study investigated whether and how language learning motivation affects L2 pragmatics production. A total of 60 adult Chinese learners of English participated in this study....

This exploratory research compares the interactive metadiscourse use by native English-speaking English for academic purposes (EAP) writing teachers in the United Kingdom and their non-native counterparts in the Chinese contexts. The analysis is based on a self-compiled corpus, including two sub-corpora, which were composed of instructor contributi...

Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers edited by Marcella De Marco and Piero Toto (2019) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 200 pp.

This book is the second edition of Betsy Rymes’ work, first published in 2009, and extends the theory of discourse analysis and applies it within the pedagogical context. It distinguishes itself from the preceding edition in that a new concept of ‘communicative repertoire’ is introduced and integrated systematically into a methodology for classroom...

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Language is an important carrier of the national spirit and cultural heritage in inter-state communication, while translation bridges the international exchanges. Cognitive linguistics explains how we organize our cognitive structure, including the experiential view, the figure/ground theory and the attentional view. The positive impact process of...