Yong Mei

• Hubei University
• Associate Professor at Hubei University

Cultivating global competence is an essential mission of foreign language education. This research has investigated English major students’ global competence from three universities of “The National First-class Undergraduate Majors” in Wuhan. Results show that: (1) Those students’ global competence is generally high, across three dimensions of “a...

This study is based on the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English(ICNALE), taking Chinese and Japanese college students as the research subjects, to examine the differences existing in writing syntactic complexity and its development trend with the improvement of language proficiency presented by Chinese and Japanese learners of...

Despite the rekindled interest in emotions and individual differences in second language acquisition (SLA) under the influence of positive psychology, the interrelationships among regulatory focus, L2 grit and achievement emotions remain under-researched. Drawing on structural equation modeling (SEM) approach, this study aimed to examine the predic...

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全球胜任力培养已成为高等教育的重要目标，参与国际赛事志愿服务被认为是促进大学生全球胜任力发展的重要途径。对10名参与某国际赛事的大学生志愿者进行深入访谈发现，其全球胜任力在参与志愿服务活动后发生了积极变化，体现在文化认同、世界知识、跨文化理解、跨文化沟通能力和开放与尊重等方面。首先，得益于高强度赛前培训，志愿者的世界知识和跨文化理解水平变化最为显著；其次，志愿者全球胜任力态度与价值观变化程度居中，这源于志愿者的高内驱力和赛事期跨文化交际环境；最后，国际赛事有助于提升志愿者的全球胜任力技能，但囿于期限较短，其影响程度较小。基于研究结果，研究提出应提高服务性学习活动的比重、开设世界知识类课程以及创建真实的跨文化交流环境等建议。

This paper reports on a qualitative inquiry into the impact of overseas in-service training on three young College English teachers’ academic identity based on Tajfel’ s theory of Social Identity. Drawing on rich data collected from one-on-one in-depth interview and journals, the study found: 1. all three young teachers have undergone very positiv...

The past 30-strong years has seen remarkable achievements that both Poland and China have made in Doctoral Education along different paths though. Drawing on policy research and extensive data, this paper sets out to examine the transformations of doctor education across the two countries within these intervening years. It is found that the changes...

It is desirable to enhance the ability of Chinese EFL teachers to apply multimodal resources in their teaching practice. An investigation is carried out to explore the perception, attitudes and application of College English teachers at universities in Wuhan. It is found that over half of the participants have some understandings of multimodality b...