ZHANG Wenzhong Position: Professor Research Center: Email address: zhangwz@nankai.edu.cn Research Interests: foreign language education,project-based instruction and learning L2 vocabulary acquisition, L2 oral fluency instructional models norms for academic writing |
Projects (in charge & as participant)
2008: Tianjin Philosophy & Social Science Foundation Grant for “The Tradition of Left Radicalism in American Literature”
2009: National Social Science Foundation Grant for “The Tradition of Left Radicalism in American Literature”
Courses Taught
Courses at undergraduate level:Individualized English Learning, English Through Projects An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition, Research Design in Applied Language Studies for Post-Graduates
Courses at MA level:Academic Writing Analysis, Issues of L2 Vocabulary Acquisition for doctors
Courses at Doctoral level: Questionnaire Design, Academic Writing Analysis, Issues of L2 Vocabulary Acquisition
Selected Publications
Monographs
Articles and Essays
2015, Chinese EFL learners’ acquisition of English motion events VPP construction: an awareness-raising experiment (with Hu Fanghui). Foreign Language Education in China, (4).
_____iPBL: A localized project-based English teaching and learning model. Foreign Languages in China, (2):15-23.
_____Planning an innovation-cultivating curricular module for English major education (with Feng Guangwu). Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, (3):29-34.
2014, Ethics issues in foreign language teaching and learning researching (second author, with Liu Hao, in Chinese). Modern Foreign Languages, (3):420-428.
_____ A review of the research in critical reading cultivating in Chinese universities’ English teaching (second author, with Qi Bin, in Chinese). Higher Education Research Journal, 37/(1):90-95.
_____From teaching theory to practice. Foreign Languages and Literatures, (1)
_____Projects: categorization and design. Foreign Languages and Literatures, (1)
2013, Vocabulary acquisition and use in project-based learning (with Cao Zhenzhen, in Chinese), in L. Yang (ed.), SLA in China. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
2012, Instruction-learning views of localized project-based learning (in Chinese), China University Teaching, (4): 47-51.
2011, English major students’ evaluation of project-based learning (in Chinese), Foreign Languages and Literatures, (2):3-10.
A “Research-based English Learning course”: rationale and ideations (in Chinese), English Teachers, (2): 2-6.
Interest-driven out-of-class learning: a case study of the “Individualized English Learning” course (with Xia Saihui, in Chinese), Foreign Language Education in China, (1):3-11.
2010, Three decades of project-based SL/FL learning and instruction (in Chinese), Foreign Languages in China, (2):68-74.
“Lexicunion” as a unit of EFL vocabulary learning (in Chinese), Journal of Chongqing University (Social Sciences), (3) :133-138.
The two-“Three-in-one” approach to the “English Through Projects” course(in Chinese), English Teachers, (10):31-34.
2009, Effects of Word Exposure Frequency on Incidental Acquisition of English Vocabulary by Chinese EFL Learners (with Xu Feng, in English),Teaching English in China, (1):2-9.
An analysis of the methodology in studies on dictionary use by Chinese EFL learners (with He Jianing, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (1):94-101.
An analysis of V-N collocation errors in CLEC (with Yang Shichao, in Chinese), Journal of PLA Foreign Studies University, (2):39-44.
2008, Guided literature reading for MA students majoring in Applied Linguistics: some thoughts and practice (in Chinese), Degrees and Postgraduate Education, (8):37-40.
A framework for fuzzy assessment of communicative competence based on fuzzy mathematics (with Zhang Heng, in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, (6):433-439.
Ethnic identity and cultural fluency (with Long Jianhong, in Chinese), in Chen Xinren (ed.) Foreign Language Education and Ethnic Identity in the Globalization Context (pp.93-103). Beijing, Higher Education Press.
2007, Autonomatizing linguistic processing in L2 oral production (in English). In Hu, W. & Q. Wen (eds.) ELT in China (IV)(pp.819-837). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Research-based learning by English majors-What is it about? (in Chinese) China University Teaching and Learning, (10):81-84.
2006, Strategy Use in Chinese EFL Learners’ Processing of English Idioms (with Wang Xiaomin, in English), Teaching English in China, (3):2-11.
EFL learners’ acquisition of English adjective-noun collocations: a quantitative analysis (with Chen Shuichi, in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, (4):251-258.
Guided Reading: Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics(McCarthy, Cambridge University Press, 1998)(pp.D11-D28), Beijing, World Publishing Company (Beijing Branch).
2005, Schemes for English Major Education, in Zhang Jing and Liu Zijian (eds.) Schemes for Undergraduates Majors of Hunan University (Chinese-English bilingual)(254-287), Changsha, Hunan University Press.
A status quo analysis on the past two decades’ foreign language learning motivation research in China (with Wang Xiaomin, in Chinese), Foreign Language World, (4):58-65.
Professional development for college English teachers through problem-based teaching technique research (with Zeng Fangui, in Chinese), in Zeng Fangui & Zhang Wenzhong, College English Teaching: Research on Reform and Practice (pp.2-9). Changsha, Hunan University Press.
2004, Development of English major students’ productive vocabulary: An experimental study (with Tong Shuhua, in Chinese), Journal of Xiangtan Teachers’ College, (2):108-113.
A survey of EFL/ESL idiom acquisition research (with Wang Xiaomin, in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching Abroad, (4):7-15.
2003, Quantifying Chinese EFL Learners’ Outside Class Contact with English (with Wang Xiuzhen, in English), in Hu Wenzhong (ed.) ELT in China (III)(pp.537-557),Beijing, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
A cognitive psychological model of L2 lexical development in the classroom setting (with Wu Xudong, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (4):373-384.
On autonomous English learning in the classroom setting (in Chinese), Journal of Hunan University (Social Sciences), (6):95-100.
2002, 4/3/2 technique: what it can and cannot do (in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (4):418-422.
Comments on three translated/annotated versions of the short story Babylon Revisited (with Guo Jingjing, in Chinese), Journal of Chinese Translators, (2):58-60.
A survey of the quality of experimental research in foreign language teaching (With Wu Xudong, in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, (1):35-44.
Fuzzy Assessment: a new approach to foreign language speaking test assessing (with Guo Jingjing, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (1):98-102.
The Development of L2 Oral Fluency in the EFL Classroom Setting (in English). Changsha, Hunan Education Press.
2001, On Fanshi —— a Figure of speech (in Chinese), Journal of Wuhan University (Humanities), (1):117-121.
Intention identification and meaning inference (in Chinese), in He, Z. & Ran, Y. (eds.) Pragmatics and Cognition: Relevance Theory Research Papers (pp.254-262), Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Anxiety of L2 Oral Communication—Some Concepts Reconsidered (in English),Teaching English in China(2): 9-12.
Development of L2 oral fluency: a quantitative analysis (with Wu Xudong, in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (4):341-351.
2000, Time-consuming and low-efficiency English teaching in China: problems and solutions—a response to Jing Shenghua (in Chinese). Journal of Wuhan University (supplementary edition) 176-181.
Helping students establish a beneficent cycle of autonomous English learning (in Chinese), Journal of College of Foreign Languages of Shandong Normal Univeristy, (2):82-86.
L2 oral fluency development: a qualitative analysis (in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (3):273-282.
1999, Status quo of research into second language oral fluency (in Chinese), Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, (2):41-48.
A theoretical model of L2 oral fluency development (in Chinese), Modern Foreign Languages, (2):202-217.
1998, Some criticisms on research into foreign language teaching in China (in Chinese), in Zhao, G. (ed.) Teaching and Researching (pp.122-129), Nanchang: Jiangxi Higher Learning Press.
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