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    Authors Year Title Publisher/Journal
    Zou, B., Wang, C., Xu, M. Zhang, W. Zan, R. Laing, M. 2026 Comparing AI-Generated Feedback Modes in EFL Speaking: The Role of Interactivity and Embedded Teacher Expertise. Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
    Zou, B., Lyu, Q., Han, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, W. 2025 Exploring students’ acceptance of an Artificial Intelligence speech evaluation program for EFL speaking practice: An application of the Integrated Model of Technology Acceptance Computer Assisted Language Learning
    Huang, Boyi 2025 A Chinese Queer Subtitling Community’s Digital Visibility Management: An Alternative Approach Convergence
    Huang, Boyi 2025 Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A Theoretical Framework for Explaining Unpaid Human Participation in Translation (and Beyond?) Translation Spaces
    Chen, C., & Durrant, P. 2024  Lexical complexity in academic lectures: Comparative analysis of EMI and Non-EMI settings and influential factors Applied Corpus Linguistics
    Xu, J., Zhou, S., Chen, C., Perrin, S., & Gan, H. 2025 Exploring the interplay between enjoyment, anxiety, ideal self, and willingness to communicate in EMI higher education International Journal of Applied Linguistics
    Li, C., & Perez-Paredes, P. 2026 Exploring EFL learners’ vocabulary learning in longitudinal mobile-assisted context Journal of China Computer Assisted Language Learning
    Zou, B., Wang, C., He, H., Li, C., Purwanto, E., & Wang, P. 2025 Enhancing EFL writing with visualised GenAI feedback: A cognitive affective theory of learning perspective on revision quality, emotional response, and human-computer interaction Learning and Motivation
    Sperlich, Darcy, Hong Liu and Steven Jeaco 2026 Parsing factivity and alternating factivity verbs. Discourse Processes
    Sperlich, Darcy 2026 Processing reflexives through syntax or pragmatics. Investigating second language English Lingua
    Xia, D., Sun, H., Pae, H. K., & Chen, Y. 2026 “I hope this email finds you well”: Exploring the role of GenAI in student-faculty email communication at EMI Universities in China English for Specific Purposes
    Xia, D. & Pae, H. K. 2025 Understanding “the” in L2 writing: Article use in formulaic sequences among beginning and intermediate Chinese learners of English Journal of English for Academic Purposes
    Huettig, F., C.C. Voeten, E. Pascual, J. Liang & F. Hintz 2023  Do autistic children differ in language-mediated prediction? Cognition
    Pascual, E. & B. Marqueta 2023  Viewpointed morphology: A unified account of Spanish verb-complement compounds as fictive interaction structures Journal of Linguistics
    Kratochvíl, F., Delpada, B., Perono Cacciafoco, F., & Wu, S. 2026 Place names and inter-island trade in Eastern Indonesia: Abui coastal toponymic interface Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
    Zahra, T., Perono Cacciafoco, F., & Zamir, M. T. 2026  Data-Driven Reconstruction of the Singapore Stone: A Numerical Imputation Method of Epigraphic Restoration Information (Switzerland)
    Liu, H., Sperlich, D., & Yao, P. 2026 Sentence predictability and lexical factors during L2 reading: Evidence from eye movements Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
    Liu, H., Chaouch-Orozco, A., & Sperlich, D. 2026 Differential adaptation of bilingual language control to cognitive load: Evidence from cued and voluntary switching Memory & Cognition
    Yuanxin Yang, Hui Wang 2026 Translation as Image Crafting: Strategic Multimodal Highlighting in the Representation of Hangzhou’s Image The Journal of Specialised Translation
    Wu, Y., Su, H. & Yin, H. 2025 Enhancing Mandarin tone acquisition: Computer-assisted pronunciation training in self-directed L2 learning International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
    Yao, L., Ngai, C. S. B., Singh, R. G., & Chen, F. 2024 Social media users’ engagement with fear appeal elements in government’s health crisis communication via state-owned media Journal of Health Communication
    Yao, L., & Chen, F. 2026 Outsourcing professional self-presentation: An investigation of social media discourse on GenAI-mediated job application Palgrave Macmillan
    Wang, L. C., & Wong, P. C. M. 2024 Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study Journal of Child Language
    Zhou, X., Wang, L., Hong, X., & Wong, P. C. 2024 Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers Developmental Science
    Van Mensel, Luk, and Eline Zenner (Eds.) 2026 Language and the Family. Stretching Concepts, Challenging Methods Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton
    Cheung, P. 2024 Location-specific citizenship: State visions of spatial selectivity in the cities of Beijing and Suzhou Territory, Politics, Governance
    Scott, P. 2026 Medical Recipes in Early Medieval English: A Cultural Linguistic Perspective on the Cognition of Health and Illness Topics in Cognitive Science
    Scott, P. (Editor) & Liu, Y. (Editor) 2026 Health Humanities in the Chinese Context: Language, Culture, and Ageing Routledge
    Peter Yacavone 2023 Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-conformist University of Michigan Press
    Peter Yacavone 2025 Allusion, Intertext, and Ethnic Flattening in Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda’s Copacabana Journal of Film and Video
    Zhou, Q. 2026 Translating Willingness to Communicate into Learner Talk in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Classroom Language Teaching Research
    Zhou, Q., Li, X., & Shen, Y. 2026 Bridging the belief-practice divide: teacher and student perspectives on how oral corrective feedback influences willingness to communicate Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
    Sun, Q. 2025 Exploring languaging practices and reasons in Chinese bilingual students’ academic writing process: insights from EMI and CMI contexts Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
    Sun, Q. 2025 Profiling lecturers’ and students’ beliefs about literacy-related skills in an EMI university: a Q methodology study Language and Education
    Jeaco, S. & Xia, A. 2026 Learning from AI’s pen: Using corpus data as a lens to promote attention and learning from patterns of language in AI-generated text Journal of Asia TEFL
    Jeaco, S. 2023 How can we communicate (visually) what we (usually) mean by collocation and keyness? Journal of Second Language Studies
    Liu, T., & Zou, B. 2025 Enhancing students’ L2 writing by integrating artificial intelligence with corpus-based language pedagogy Computer Assisted Language Learning
    Liu, T. 2025 Vocabulary Tests in Data-Driven Learning Research Springer Nature Switzerland
    Duggett, T. 2025 Re-enactment and Romanticism: Wordsworth, Southey, and RG Collingwood’s An Autobiography (1939) ROMANTICISM
    Duggett, T. 2023 Coleridge and the Idea of History ROMANTICISM
    Hu, W. 2026 Translator Education for Changing Markets Cambridge University Press
    Liu, N.X., Zhang, S.I., Chen, T., Hu, W., & Huang, W. 2026 Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era: Intersections of Political Communication and Translation Routledge
    Zhang, X., Zhou, J., & Jiao, H. 2026 Contemporary Linguistics Key Words: Machine Translation Foreign Language Studies
    Zhang, Xiaojun 2023 Computational Linguistics: New Perspectives and Development [《计算语言学新发展研究》] Tsinghua University Press
    Zhao, Y., Zhang, Q., Xu, R., & Zhang, W. 2025 以二语认同为导向的多维外语教学模式 China Social Sciences Press (中国社会科学出版社)
    Long, Y. 2024 Translating and performing China for the English-speaking stage: Royal Shakespeare Company’s re-staging of The Injustice to Dou E Humanit Soc Sci Commun
    Long, Y. 2023 The Works of Lin Yutang: Translation and Recognition Routledge
    Tse Crepaldi, Y., & Luke, K. 2025 Leveraging the Occasion to Resist: A Young Child’s Noncompliant Responses to Requests for Actions Research on Children and Social Interaction
    Tse Crepaldi, Y., & Mirvahedi, S. H. 2024 Language ideologies and practices in flux: The case of an Italian-Chinese transnational family Current Issues in Language Planning
    Han, Z. 2026  A corpus-based approach to Chinese diplomatic news translation pedagogy in the digital era Routledge
    Han, Z. 2025 Étude comparative des collocations à partir d’un corpus spécialisé en environnement et d’un corpus général Verbum
    Yuexi Liu 2026 Exterior Modernism: Evelyn Waugh and Cinema Bloomsbury
    Yuexi Liu 2024 Chinese Modernist Satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Legends (1944) Textual Practice

     

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    Innovations

    Dr Stephen Jeaco develops free apps for a variety of purposes related to corpus linguistics, language learning and assistive technology.  Links to his developer profile on the App Store and the Microsoft Store:

    Professor Bin Zou develops two AI programs for foreign language learning:

    • AI for English as a foreign language learning (EFL) speaking practice: EAP Talk https://www.eaptalk.com/app/
      EAP Talk has more than 20,000 users and is used by more than 20 universities. Over 20 papers have been published in journals and volumes based on EAP Talk.
    • AI for Chinese as a foreign language learning (CFL) speaking practice: https://chinese.eaptalk.com/app

    Dr Xiaojun Zhang has been involved in the following AI tools for language/translation studies:

    1. He is the collaborator of VIP/VIP II (Voice-text Integrated Platform System) project funded by Spanish Ministry. The tool named VIP can be found at  https://www.lexytrad.es/VIP/site/?ln=en. He took care of the language of Chinese in this tool. His name is in the list of  https://www.lexytrad.es/en/members/collaborators/.
    2. He is the one of the authors of WenetSpeech-Wu, a dialect recognition, transcription and translation system led by Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group of Northwestern Polytechnical University. The system and its demonstration can be found at  https://hujingbin1.github.io/WenetSpeechWu-Demo-Page-Public/, and publications on this can be found at https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1395/.
    3. He is the inventor of a software on aging people’s voice recognition. The software is going to be used to apply for a computer software copyright. His paper on this software has been accepted by NSMMSC2026 conference.
    4. He is the inventor of an Invention IP on single chip microcomputer (MCU) robot voice interaction. The agent is applying for IP based on his proposal with university support.