Department of Applied Linguistics

Projects

Projects per year 2011 2022 2023 2024 2025 2028

• 9 Not started
• 32 Finished
• 32 Active

Projects per year

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• Words and Their Stories: An Etymological Exploration of the English Vocabulary

  PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F.

  6/06/23 → 28/08/23

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • English 100%
  • Phytonyms 89%
  • English lexicon 79%
  • Lexical Item 59%
  • English Vocabulary 59%

• Using generative artificial Intelligence to help students develop English-speaking skills (TDF)

  Zou, B., Sun, Q., Liu, T., Huang, L., Chen, X., Zhu, C. & Yu, C.

  1/09/24 → 24/08/27

  Project: Internal Research Project

• TDF: Using Artificial Intelligence technology to practice spontaneous speech: EAP learners’ perceptions of effectiveness and challenges

  He, H. & Zou, B.

  31/05/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Unveiling the Secrets of the Singapore Stone: A Digital Philology Investigation

  PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F.

  2/06/25 → 29/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Singapore 100%
  • stone carvings 50%
  • Legacy 50%
  • Calcutta 50%
  • Secret 50%

• Unravelling Linguistic Certainty and Rapport Choices in Health Promotional Messaging on Social Media: A linguistic lens to psychological reactance research

  Yao, L.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/27

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Rapport 100%
  • Certainty 100%
  • Linguistics 100%

• University Students' English Autonomous Learning in the Digital Context of LLMs大语言模型数字化背景下高校学生英语自主学习能力培养研究---2024年江苏高校外语教育专项课题-重点课题

  Zou, B., Huang, L., Chen, X., Yu, C. & Wang, C.

  1/09/24 → 31/08/26

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Autonomous learning 100%
  • Digital 100%
  • English 100%

• PGRS2312001: Transforming Chinese secondary school students into emergent bilinguals in an English language classroom—A longitudinal pedagogical intervention that deploys translanguaging to stimulate agentive learning

  Zhao, Y., Ruan, Z. & Magliacane, A.

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Tuition Fee 100%
  • Secondary School Student 100%
  • Translanguaging 100%
  • Chinese 100%

• Toponymy and Language Shift: Aspects of Language Change in South-East Asia

  Cavallaro, F., Kratochvil, F., PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F. & KENSINGER, A.

  6/01/14 → 31/12/17

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Indonesia 100%
  • Language Documentation 81%
  • Toponymy 70%
  • Disappearing Languages 70%
  • Papuan Languages 70%

• The research and development of the multi-dimensional automated Chinese speech grading mobile application

  Wu, Y., Shen, X., Zou, B., Lin, Y., Gao, S., Hui, Y., Su, J. & Chen, T.

  1/12/20 → 29/12/24

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Mobile Application 100%

• The Republican Public: Discourses in China Before 1950

  Cheung, P.

  1/07/22 → …

  Project: Other

• The online-offline nexus of everyday lifeworld: a linguistic ethnography

  Zhao, F.

  1/07/24 → 30/06/27

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Life world 100%

• The discursive construction of Shanghai in English-language media

  Kitis, E. D.

  1/03/21 → 28/02/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Discursive construction 100%
  • Shanghai 100%
  • English (Language) 100%

• The Directive System in Mandarin Interaction from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

  Tse Crepaldi, Y. & Li, X.

  1/09/23 → …

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Language Behavior 100%
  • Nonverbal Communication 100%
  • Eye Tracking 100%
  • English 100%
  • English Speaker 100%

• The bootstrapping role of prosody in infant-directed speech in early lexical learning: a longitudinal study

  Wang, L.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Longitudinal Study 100%

• SURF: Testing the validity of quick and easy bilingual proficiency tests

  Liu, H.

  1/06/23 → 1/09/23

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Socio-cognitive factors in the use of classroom code-switching

  Liu, H.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

  • Cognitive Factor 100%

• Silver Stories: How Narratives About Older Adults Shape Public Perceptions on Social Media Platforms

  Ma, R. & Yao, L.

  19/10/24 → …

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Research and Practice of Enhancing Tertiary EFL Students’ collaborative Learning in an Wiki-Based Context

  Zou, B.

  1/09/11 → 31/12/13

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Collaborative Learning 100%
  • English as a Foreign Language 100%

• Relating children’s vocabulary development to the properties of caregivers’ child-directed speech in the Chinese context

  Wang, L.

  Project: Internal Research Project

• RDF-TP-0029

  Sperlich, D.

  1/09/24 → 31/08/27

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Quality Healthcare Delivery for the Elderly: Consent-Taking in a Cataract Surgery Clinic in Singapore

  Tse Crepaldi, Y., Lim, N., Luke, K. K. & Laude, A.

  1/07/18 → …

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Quality Health Care 100%
  • Cataract Extraction 100%
  • Health Care Delivery 100%

• Profiling factors that characterize EFL learners’ WTC-talk realisation: A Q methodology perspective

  Zhou, Q. & Sun, Q.

  15/07/24 → 1/09/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Polyglot Medical Heritage in Maritime Southeast Asia: Foundational Resources and Digital Tools

  STANLEY-BAKER, M., PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F. & ZAKARIA, F.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Papuan Languages 100%
  • Indonesia 100%
  • Language Documentation 87%
  • Disappearing Languages 75%
  • Southeast 58%

• Place Names and Cultural Identity: Toponyms and Their Diachronic Evolution among the Kula People from Alor Island

  PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Papuan Languages 100%
  • Indonesia 92%
  • Language Documentation 80%
  • Southeast 76%
  • Names 69%

• PGRS - Unravelling the relationships between languages, literacies and content learning in an EMI university

  Sun, Q., Wei, R. & Magliacane, A.

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • English-Medium Instruction 100%
  • Q Methodology 20%
  • Documentary Analysis 20%
  • Learning Experiences 20%
  • Academic Literacy 20%

• OT Account of Mandarin Tone Sandhi, Psycholinguistic Reality and Phonetic Evidence

  Yin, H.

  1/04/14 → 31/03/17

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • tone sandhi 100%
  • Psycholinguistics 100%

• Optimizing Statistical Collocations in Chinese English Learners' Academic Writing: A Corpus Linguistics Perspective

  Xia, D.

  1/07/24 → 30/06/27

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Corpus Linguistics 100%
  • English learners 100%
  • Academic Writing 100%

• On the standard framework for Chinese undergraduates' English academic literacy skills

  Ruan, Z. & Wei, R.

  1/06/15 → 31/12/18

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Academic Literacy 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • English 100%

• Modelling phonological variation in Hong Kong English

  Scott, P.

  1/12/13 → 31/12/16

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Phonological variation 100%
  • Hong Kong English 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • English 100%

• PGRS: Mental health and communication: News coverage and social media of patients in the UK

  Kitis, E. D.

  9/09/25 → 9/09/28

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Mental Health 100%

• Mapping the Languages of Indigenous Clans in the Eastern Spice Islands

  PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F.

  1/04/24 → 30/11/25

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Indonesia 100%
  • Papuan Languages 86%
  • Language Documentation 74%
  • Southeast 66%
  • Names 60%

• Mandarin-learning infants' brain lateralization for lexical-tone perception and its effects on their language development

  Wang, L.

  1/07/23 → 1/07/26

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Language Development 100%

• Linguistic demands of EMI in Higher Education: A corpus-based analysis of reading and writing in university settings in China, Italy, Thailand and the UK

  Liu, T.

  1/09/22 → 31/10/25

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Thailand 100%
  • Italy 100%
  • corpus-based analysis 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • China 100%

• Investigating the interplay between students’ and teachers’ digital academic literacies in an EMI university

  Sun, Q., Zhang, Y. & Bi, X.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Interplay 100%
  • Academic Literacy 100%
  • Digital 100%

• Investigating the impact of teacher corrective feedback on Willingness to Communicate (WTC): The case of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) learners

  Zhou, Q. & Shen, X.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Willingness to Communicate 100%
  • Chinese 100%

• Investigating the effects of topic familiarity and working memory on writing behaviours and text quality in foreign language writing

  Wei, D.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• HSS-RSF: Investigating students’ multilingual and multimodal academic literacies in dissertation writing in an EMI university.

  Sun, Q., Zhang, X. & Zhao, F.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Multilingualism 100%
  • Academic Literacy 100%
  • Multi-modal 100%

• Investigating Lexical and Syntactic Complexity of EAP Writing to Assist Automated Language Assessment

  Chen, C.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Language assessment 100%
  • Lexical 100%
  • Syntactic complexity 100%

• Investigating language communication in multilingual contexts to enhance Suzhou taxi's external services

  Dodigovic, M., Wei, R. & 李辉

  26/05/15 → 15/12/15

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Multilingualism 100%

• Investigating Dyslexia in the Rural Areas of Northwestern China

  Wei, D.

  1/09/23 → …

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • China 100%

• Investigate language control in sentence context

  Liu, H.

  1/01/20 → 1/06/22

  Project: Other

• How binlinguals process digit naming?

  Liu, H.

  1/01/23 → 31/01/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Health Cultures in the Global South

  Scott, P.

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

• Governance in Light of the “New Citizenship” Campaign in China

  Cheung, P.

  1/08/19 → 31/07/22

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Giving Voice to the Minoan People: The Decipherment of Linear A

  PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F.

  1/01/18 → 31/08/21

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Minoan 100%
  • Writing Systems 80%
  • Language 61%
  • Scripts 61%
  • decipherment 61%

• Gerontolinguistics for Intelligent-Interaction Devices

  Zhang, X., Wei, R., 黄立鹤, 陈欧, 郭小燕, 陈雷, 朱金波 & 冉沅忠

  1/09/24 → 31/08/27

  Project: Governmental Research Project

• Factivity in Chinese: A Synthesized Approach

  Sperlich, D.

  1/07/23 → 30/06/26

  Project: Internal Research Project

• English vocabulary learning apps and self-directed learning: how language learning theories and pedagogies underlying apps design influence users’ self-directed vocabulary learning behaviours

  Li, C.

  15/03/21 → 14/09/23

  Project: Other

• Effect Size Reporting and Interpreting Practices in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Academic Journals: A survey of two discipline

  Wei, R. & Kuang, X.

  1/09/20 → 29/02/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Social Science 100%

• Effect Size Reporting and Interpreting Practices in Academic Journals in Applied Linguistics

  Wei, R.

  1/03/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Effect Size 100%