Name: Yuzhen Cao
Gender: Female
Academic Title: Lecturer
Email: 101005464@seu.edu.cn
Research Interests: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Education
B.A., Department of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, 1995–1999
M.A., School of International Education, Nanjing Normal University, 2008–2012
Ph.D., School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, 2016–2024
Experiences
Faculty Member, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, August 1999–present
Promoted to Lecturer in 2005
Visiting Scholar, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom, 2008
Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University, United States, 2010
Class Advisor for Class 171191, 2019
Graduate Secretary, School of Foreign Languages, 2022–2024
Rated Excellent in annual performance evaluations in 2020, 2022, and 2024
Teaching, Curriculum Development, and Student Supervision
Third Prize, Southeast University Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition, 2014
Second Prize, Jiangsu Provincial Micro-lecture Teaching Competition for University Faculty, 2015
Contributing editor, National Eleventh Five-Year Plan textbook series, 2010:
New Edition College English Audio-Visual-Reading, Basic 2
New Edition College English Audio-Visual-Reading, Book 1
Contributing member in the development of the Southeast University online open course College English, 2019
Project Lead for the development of the Southeast University online open course IELTS-oriented English for International Communication, 2020.
Research Projects
Philosophy and Social Sciences Project of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, 2012
A Study of L1-Based Lexical Misinterpretation among European and American International Students in Universities in Jiangsu Province
Basic Science Support Project, Southeast University, 2013
A Reaction-Time Study of the L2 Mental Lexicon of College English Learners
Major Guidance Project, Southeast University, 2018
A Study of Modern Chinese Adjectives from the Perspective of Degree Semantics
Jiangsu Provincial Social Science Fund Project, 2019
A Study of Modern Chinese Adjectives from the Perspective of Degree Semantics
Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education Demonstration Course, Academic Affairs Office, Southeast University, 2020: Academic English Reading 2
Special Teaching Reform Project on Ideological and Political Education, Academic Affairs Office, Southeast University, 2022
Cultivating “National Consciousness” and Awareness of Voice Construction in Academic English Courses
Supervisor of a National SRTP Project, 2021
A Multimodal Study of Production Anxiety in Academic English Communication
Supervisor of a Provincial SRTP Project, 2021
A Study of Multimodal Communicative Competence in Academic English Communication
Recognized as an Outstanding University-level Demonstration Course in the Third Batch of Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education at Southeast University, 2021
Special Teaching Reform Project on Ideological and Political Education, 2022
Cultivating “National Consciousness” and Awareness of Voice Construction in Academic English Courses
Supervisor of an SRTP Project, 2022
Exploring the Construction of Self-Voice in College Students’ Academic English Writing Based on the Rasch Model
Selected Publications
The Semantics of Scalar Equatives (2022, A&HCI and SSCI)
Issues in Proper-Name Modification Constructions (2021, CSSCI)
The Mechanism of Negative Stance Expressions from a Multidimensional Semantic Perspective (2023, CSSCI source journal)
New Developments in the Study of Modification (2019, CSSCI source journal)
