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Dr. Jiajin Xu

Research Associate

Department: Linguistics and English Language

Degree: Ph.D. (Beijing Foreign Studies University)

Personal website

Research Interests

Corpus-based discourse studies, discourse analysis of learner language, classroom discourse analysis, interlanguage pragmatics, learner corpus research, discourse and syntax interface, spoken Chinese discourse analysis, discourse marker research)

General Information

I will be back to China in January, 2009. For future contact, please write to me at xujiajin@bfsu.edu.cn.

I am currently working with Prof. Anna Siewierska for an ESRC-funded project "A Corpus based Study of Split Words in Chinese: Interfacing morphology, syntax and pragmatics".

Before I came to Lancaster University, I had been a full-time researcher and teacher at the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University. I taught master level courses like Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Computer-assisted Language Learning.

Projects

• Named Researcher of the ESRC-funded project "A Corpus based Study of Split Words in Chinese: Interfacing morphology, syntax and pragmatics" (RES-000-22-2286).
• Documents related to the ESRC project "A Corpus based Study of Split Words in Chinese"
• PowerPoint presentation for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Theme: Languages in Contrast. Grammar, Translation, Corpora) held at the University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy (17-20 September 2008). Download.

• Principal Investigator: (2008-2010) "A Corpus-based Study of Discourse Features of Chinese Learners' English Speech" funded by the Ministry of Education of China.
• Principal Investigator of BFSU-funded project "Corpus-based Discourse Studies" (Ref: 06012).
• Principal Investigator of BFSU-funded project "The Construction of the Database of Foreign Language Education in China"
• Principal Investigator of the project "Impact of Training of Dictionary Types and Looking-up Strategies on the Senior High School Learner's Conscious Learning of English Vocabulary". Funded by the National Research Foundation on the basic English Education (2006-2008) (JJWYYB2006018).
• One of the Named Researchers of the China National Social Sciences Foundation project: "EFL Classroom Discourse Analysis and Teacher Development".

Publications

Academic papers, books concerning language studies, English language teaching and learning in general, and the implementation of new technologies in the field of language learning.

Articles in refereed journals (in Chinese)

2008. (To appear). Discourse markers in natural speech: A situated discourse perspective. Foreign Language Research.

2008. (To appear). Discourse marker RANHOU and its functions in spoken Chinese. Foreign Languages Research.

2009. (To appear). Book review: Corpus-based Language Studies. Contemporary Linguistics (1).

2008. (To appear). (with Jiujiu Xu). A discourse analysis of Chinese synchronous online chat. In the collection in celebration of 70th Birthday of Prof. Xu Liejiong.

2008. (With G. Chen & W. Xiong). Highlighting Specific Contents in the Compilation of English Textbooks. Modern Educational Technology (2).

2008. (with Richard Xiao). Corpora and Language Education. Journal of Foreign Language Education (2).

2008. Discourse Marker Na(ge) and Its Functions in Spoken Chinese. Linguistic Science (1).

2007. (with Z. Xu). Discourse Management Chunks in Chinese college learners' English speech: A spoken corpus-based study. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (6).

2007. Introducing Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese. English Education in China. (3).

2006. Data collection, annotation and analysis of EFL classroom discourse. English Education for Schools 1(11).

2004. A Review of Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation. Contemporary Linguistics (3).

2004. Structural and Functional Approaches to Discourse Analysis: A Critical Overview. Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 27(2).

2003. Theoretical Considerations in Corpus Linguistics. Foreign Language Education 24(6).

2002. (with X. Ren). Textual Function and Listening Comprehension Teaching. Foreign Language World 22(2).

Monograph

2009 (Forthcoming). The Use of Discourse Markers in Spoken Chinese of Urban Teenagers. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Dictionary

2005. A Bilingual Dictionary of Frequently Used Foreign Words and Phrases in English. Hefei, Anhui: Anhui Sci-Tech Press.

Co-authored (text-)books

2004. (with M. Li et al.). College English: Listening and Speaking (Book Six). Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

2002. Campus English Conversation. Hefei, Anhui: Anhui Sci-Tech Press.

Translation (Chinese into English)

2006. (with H. Liu & Y. Kang). World Heritage--China. Beijing: Cultural Relics Press.

Other Interests and Hobbies

Soccer, traditional Chinese architecture, Buddhist culture

Associated Keywords: Chinese, Corpus linguistics, Discourse analysis, Learner corpora, Pragmatics

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