Index - Lecture in LCSD (HSS)

Name

吴菁轩

Title

Lecture in LCSD (HSS)

Education Background

PhD (Applied Linguistics) The University of Melbourne
Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics) The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (English Language and Literature) Nankai University

Research

Second Language Pragmatics; Interactional Competence; Conversation Analysis

Personal Website

wujingxuan@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Room 427 Zhinxin Building

Phone

Teaching Area

English as second language

Other

Biography

My name is Jingxuan Wu, a lecture at LCSD in the School of Humanities and Social Science. My main research focus is on second language pragmatics, with a specific focus on the development of second language interactional competence. The main target language in my research is L2 Chinese, but I am also interested in topics related to IC in other languages. I obtained my Doctor of Philosophy at the University at Melbourne in Australia. I teach English as a second language in a range of contexts and worked with diverse range of learners.

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Research

Second Language Pragmatics; Development and Assessment of Interactional Competence; Conversation Analysis

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Awards and honors

2023
2021
2018
2016

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2023

PhD (Applied Linguistics) The University of Melbourne
02

2021

Dean’s Honors List---Faculty of Arts
03

2021

Faculty of Arts Research and Graduate Studies Scheme (RAGS)
04

2018

Bachelor of Arts (English Language and Literature) Nankai University
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2018

Master of Applied Linguistics The University of Melbourne
06

2016

China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship

Publications

Thesis and Dissertation

Wu, J. X. (2023). Development of interactional competence in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Comparing role play and elicited conversation. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation], The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2018). Proficiency and preference organization in second language Mandarin Chinese refusals. [Unpublished Master’s thesis], The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Journal Article:

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2021) Proficiency and preference organization in second language Mandarin Chinese refusals. The Modern Language Journal, 105(4),897-918. [SSCI; A&HI Index, Impact factor: 7.5]

Presentations

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2022, March). Proficiency and post-expansion sequence in second language Mandarin Chinese refusals. In L. Ortega, The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2022 Conference (AAAL 2022) [Symposium], The annual conference of American Association of Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2022, September). Proficiency and post-expansion sequence in second language Mandarin Chinese refusals. In G. Marta & S, Julie, 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning [Symposium], The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA.

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2022, September). Proficiency and topic shift sequence in second language Mandarin Chinese discussion. In D. Malanda, M. Dolors, S. Olcay, 2022 conference of Interactional competence and practices in a second language (ICOP-L2) [Symposium], Barcelona, Spain.

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2022, November). Proficiency and topic extension sequence in second language Mandarin Chinese discussion. In J. Macalister, The 2022 ALANZ-ALAA-ALTAANZ Conference [Symposium], Wellington, New Zealand.

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2021, June). Proficiency and internal modifications in second language Mandarin Chinese refusals. In J. Verschueren, The 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA) [Symposium], The conference of International Pragmatic Association, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Wu, J. X., & Roever, C. (2021, March). Proficiency and preference organization in second language Mandarin Chinese refusals. In D. Patsy, The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference(AAAL 2021) [Symposium], The annual conference of American Association of Applied Linguistics, USA.

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This study investigates second language (L2) interactional competence in Mandarin Chinese, with a specific focus on dispreference organization in refusals. Twenty-eight L2 Chinese learners at 3 proficiency levels (A2, B1, and B2) and 10 native speakers each participated in 3 role plays. We found that learners at different levels clearly differed in their ability to organize refusals as dispreferred and to fine tune their refusal to the initiating action. Lower intermediate (A2) learners either fronted negative responses or adopted a single dispreference marker (e.g., apologies, pauses, prefatory particles, etc.), whereas upper intermediate (B1) learners overwhelming delayed their refusals and never produced straightforward negations, also showing different organizations of refusals depending on the initiating action. Advanced learners combined sequential tools and linguistic devices to demonstrate a strong orientation toward affiliation, and clearly oriented to scenarios differentially. However, they lagged behind native speakers, who had more diversified interactional tools and systematically oriented to features of the initiating actions. We attribute the differences partially to L2 proficiency, though proficiency-independent increase in contextual sensitivity can be observed.