Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Shinian Wu

Brooks College Faculty Member

Shinian Wu

Associate Professor

wus@gvsu.edu

Affiliations

Primary College

College of Liberal Arts and Science

Department of English

Brooks College Partnership

Director of the East Asian and Chinese Studies programs

Shinian Wu

TEACHING FOCUS

ENG 261 - The Study of Modern English

ENG 363 - Applied Linquistics

ENG 366 - Grammar and Usage

ENG 660 - Principles of Educational Linqustics

ENG 664 -  Socialinquistics and Language Teaching

ENG 665 - Second Language Linquistics

ENG 668 - Second Language Assessment

RESEARCH FOCUS

General linguistic theory

Second language acquisition

Pragmatics, and language assessment and evaluation

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS

Lectured at China’s Three Gorges University in Hubei province to on recent developments in applied linguistics research.

Conducted seminars with graduate students at Xi’an International Studies University in Shaanxi province on research methods in second language learning by Chinese students.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Serves on the editorial committee on revising the New Century Chinese-English dictionary for the second edition.

Wu, S. (2005). Interlanguage pragmatic quandary in teaching intercultural communication". Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching.

Wu, S. Editor (2003) A New Century Chinese-English Dictionary. Foreign Language Research Press.

Wu, S. & Na. G. (2000). Linguistics and SLA: How theory matters. Linguistics and language teaching. Beijing: Science Press.

Wu, S. (1999). What do these charts and graphs tell us? In R. Larimer & L. Schleicher (Eds.), New ways in using authentic models in the classroom. Washington DC:   TESOL Inc.

Du, Z & Wu, S. (1998). Chinese variety of English among World Englishes. Foreign Language and Foreign Language Teaching, 8/110. Dalian.
 

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