Basic information

 

SHI Wenxia

 

Associate Professor in School of International Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University

  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research focuses on four areas: Academic Writing, especially writing competence development of second language learners; ESP teaching and research; Discourse Analysis, in particular the study of evaluative language and the analysis of written academic texts; Pragmatics, especially multimodal resources for interpersonal and social harmony.

 

Email:

 speedtool@126.com

Honors

 AWARDS：
2017  “Pragmatically economic strategies in Research Articles”, Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Science Research in the Universities of Shaanxi.
2012  “Textual economy: Philosophical perspective”, Outstanding Foreign Language Education and Research Achievement Award of Shaanxi Province
2009  “Pragmatic Analysis of Economy of Utterance”, Outstanding Foreign Language Education and Research Achievement Award of Shaanxi Province
2009   “Growth pole networked development model for China’s western region”, Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Science Research in the Universities of Shaanxi.
2009   “Commercial Transformation of Xi'an”, Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Science Research in Xi’an.

Education

 EDUCATION

  PHD.  School of English Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University.

 M.A.    School of Humanities and Arts, Xidian University

 B.A.    English Department, Xi’an International Studies University

  

ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 Postdoctor     School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiaotong University

 Visiting scholar:  Applied linguistics in University of Birmingham

 Advanced teacher training program:  University of Nebraska, USA

 

Teaching

 Courses:

 Academic writing

Research paper writing and publication

Advanced writing

ESP

Translation theory and practice

Scientific Research

 RESEARCH PROJECTS:

2018-2020 “Improving the Quality of Academic English Courses for Non-English Major Graduates Based on QFD”, Shaanxi Educational Science Fund

2015-2017 “Grammatical Realization of Writer Identity in Chinese and Foreign RAs”, Humanity and Social Science Fund of Shaanxi.

2015 “Pragmatically Economic Strategies in Research Articles” Humanity and Social Science Press Fund of Xi’an Jiaotong University.

2013-2015 “Authorial Image Construction in Chinese and English Research Articles”, Humanity and Social Science Fund of Xi’an Jiaotong University

2009-2011 “Economy of RAs:  Pragmatic Strategies and Intentionality”, supported by Humanity and Social Science Fund of Xi’an Jiaotong University.

2009-2012 “Corpus-based study on academic writing of Chinese English learners”, Humanities and Social Science Fund of Chinese Education Ministry.

2013-2015 “Development of Online Diagnostic Feedback program for Chinese learners’ English RA Writing”, supported by National Social Science Fund of China.

 

PUBLICATION：

Pragmatically Economic Strategies in RA s. Beijing: Science Press. 2015, In press.

 

Intentional Patterns of Reporting Clauses in Research Articles by Chinese Writers: A Corpus Study. Foreign Language Education, 2013 (3).

 

Intentional Network of Discourse Meaning Construction. Journal of FujianNormalUniversity, 2014 (1).

 

Reporting Clauses in RA Introductions by Chinese Ph.D Candidates: Engagement Perspective. Journal of XidianUniversity, 2012 (6).

 

Economy of Discourse in Philosophical Point of View, Journal of Foreign Language Research, 2009 (3).

 

Economy of Scientific Abstracts: A Contrastive Analysis of Abstracts of Scientific Papers by Chinese and American Scholars, Journal of Xi’an International Studies University, 2008(1).

 

Economic Principle of Scientific Abstract Translation---Contrastive Analysis of Scientific Abstracts by Chinese and Native Writer. Foreign Language Press, XVIII FIT World Congress. 2008 (8).

 

Reflections on the Optimization of the Educational Environment and Innovation Education for Graduate Students: Analysis of Shortcomings in Graduate-level Innovation Education. Journal of Graduate Education. 2011 (10).

 

Analysis of Economy of Speech on the Basis of General Equilibrium Theory. Tangdu Journal. 2008 (2).

 

Chinese Classical Aesthetics and Economy of Language. Educational Research on Foreign Languages & Arts, 2008 (2).

 

Pragmatic Analysis of Economy of Utterance, Journal of Xi’an Shiyou University, 2005 (3).

 

Beauty of simplicity of Language and Artistic Conception, Social Scientist, 2010 (5).

New English Teaching Pattern Based on Multimedia Technology. Modern Economic Science, 2005 (2).