Name: Mei YANG
Gender: female
Date of birth: March 1974
Academic position: Professor, School of Foreign Languages, SCUT
Educational degree: PhD
Research area: second language acquisition
E-mail:flmyang@scut.edu.cn
Educational background
1991-1995 Nankai University: Bachelor of Arts in English for Special Purposes
2002-2005 Guizhou University: Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics
2006-2009 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: PhD in Applied Linguistics
Professional Employment
1995-2004, Lecturer, GuizhouUniversity
2004-2006, Associate professor, GuizhouUniversity
2009-present, Professor, South China University of Technology
Visiting scholar experiences
2007-2008, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014-2015, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii
Awards and honors
2010, Award for Excellence in Graduate students guiding, South China University of Technology
2011, the Second Award for Excellence in Teaching, SouthChinaUniversity of Technology
2012, the First Award for Excellence in Teaching, SouthChinaUniversity of Technology
2013, Nanguang Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, SouthChinaUniversity of Technology
2014, Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, SouthChinaUniversity of Technology
2016, Award for the Most-Welcomed Graduate Supervisor, SouthChinaUniversity of Technology
Publications
1.The sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition: A review, Shandong Foreign Language Teaching, 2015(5).
2.Investigating the L1 transfer on Chinese-speaking English learners’ comprehension and production of English plurals,Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2014(1).
3.A book review of Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition,Modern Foreign Languages, 2013(4).
4.An empirical study of the conceptual transfer effect as reflected in the L2 acquisition of English articles, Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013 (3).
5.Chinese-speaking English learners’ production of articles — Testing Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2012(1)。
6.The Second Language Acquisition of English Articles—An Emergentist Approach, Beijing: Science press, 2012.
7.A study of Chinese learners substitution errors of English articles, Journal of University of Tianjin Foreign Languages, 2011 (1).
8.The emotional input and L2 learners’ positive affection in language learning，Foreign Language Teaching, 2010: Special issues.
9.L2 English Articles and the Computation of Uniqueness.In J. Crawford, K. Otaki & M. Takahashi (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008). MA: Cascadilla Press. 2009
10.The Processor-based emergentism: Interviewing William O’Grady,Modern Foreign Languages, 2009 (4).
11.SLA studies of English articles: history and current situation,Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2009 (10)。
12.A book review of Practice in A Second Language, Foreign Language Education in China, 2009 (4)。
13.A critical review of formulaic language studies in China, Research in Foreign Language and Literature, 2007(4).
14.A study of the English tour guides’ nonverbal communication, Journal of Tourism, 2006(1).
15.A contrastive study of two Chinese versions of WutheringHeights,Journal of Guizhou Normal University, 2005(1).
16.A study of code-switching in Chinese EFL classrooms: A pragmatic approach, Sino-US English Teaching, 2004(10).
Grants
1.Recipient of a government grant from National Social Science Program, 2015BYY065 (2015), A Study of the Chinese L1 and L2 Development: Processing Determinism Perspective.
2.Recipient of faculty grants from Central University Social Science Research Program at South China University of Technology, 2013XZD23(2013), Investigating into the Semantics of Interlanguage Noun Phrases.
3.Recipient of faculty grants from Faculty Teaching Research Program at South China University of Technology, 2016, To Explore the Effectiveness of Learning by Doing Research.
4.Recipient of faculty grants from Faculty Teaching Research Program at South China University of Technology, 2013, A Teaching Research of English Writing Courses.
5.Recipient of a government grant from the Social Science Program of Guangdong Province, GD11YWW04 (2011), A Bidirectional Study of the Acquisition of English and Chinese Determiner Phrases.
6.Recipient of faculty grants from Central University Social Science Research Program at South China University of Technology, x2wyD210636w (2010),A Study of Multi-faceted Language Input.
