Publications - Lecture in LCSD (HSS)

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吴菁轩

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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

Email

wujingxuan@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Room 427 Zhinxin Building

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Teaching Area

English as second language

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Research

Second Language Pragmatics; Interactional Competence; Conversation Analysis

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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 [Unpublished doctoral dissertation], The University of Melbourne, Australia.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 [Unpublished Master’s thesis], The University of Melbourne, Australia.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.