Shijie Wang

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Exploring digital literacy-raising pedagogy in emergent online English education

Exploring digital literacy-raising pedagogy in emergent online English education

Case of the Chinese classes during Covid-19-related lockdown 💡I would like to extend my gratitude to Wenhui who helped collect the data at Sichuan University Jinjiang College. Also, I would like to point out again that some of the results are not statistically significant (possibly due to the small sample

The relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and multilingualism revisited

The relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and multilingualism revisited

This empirical study revisited the relationship between Tolerance of Ambiguity and multilingualism by surveying 302 English-knowing multilinguals in China.

How does sleeping help language acquisition? A meta-analysis

How does sleeping help language acquisition? A meta-analysis

This meta-analysis evaluates the relationship between sleeping and language acquisition, covering 36 research articles which reported 47 studies in total.

Mapping global research trend related to language teaching A scientometric review

Mapping global research trend related to language teaching A scientometric review

This study analysed the research trend via the scientometric study software CiteSpace, based on 1495 SSCI-indexed publications between 2000 and 2020.

Will syntax harbour stylistic features? An exploration on the A1B1A2B2 pattern of Chinese idioms

Will syntax harbour stylistic features? An exploration on the A1B1A2B2 pattern of Chinese idioms

Introduction The cognitive mechanism of Chinese idiom processing has received scholarly attention for decades (e.g. Mateu & Espinal, 2007; Nunberg, Sag, & Wasow, 1994). This line of research focuses on the compositionality of idioms (e.g. Bobrow & Bell, 1973; Swinney & Cutler, 1979; Gibbs & Colston, 2012; Cacciari

Positive Personalities and L2 Achievement: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions

Positive Personalities and L2 Achievement: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions

Conference: The 9th International Conference on English Language Teaching (ELT)

Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context

Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context

Click here to view the article on SYSTEM. Abstract Grit, viz. a combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals, is a psychological variable that has recently attracted scholarly attention. Research along this psychological line is significant because it complements the rich on-going research on cognitive variables. The seminal research