Qin Xie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5904138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Qin Xie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Qin |
| FAMILY NAME | Xie |
| SIGNATURE | XIE Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4030-3566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can citations indicate performance levels? An investigation of integrated argumentative writing tests
A framework for developing university policies on generative AI governance
As generative AI (GAI) becomes increasingly embedded in higher education, universities worldwide are developing policies to govern its ethical, pedagogical, and institutional use. However, these policies vary across national and institutional contexts. We undertake a cross-national analysis of GAI guidelines issued by leading universities in the United States, Japan, and China, identifying key policy orientations and proposing a structured framew…
Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing
This study employed a multiple-case study design to investigate nine English-as-a-foreign-language undergraduates’ disciplinary writing experiences in a bilingual teaching and learning context. Drawing on writing samples, writer’s logs, and semi-structured interviews, the study identified weaknesses in their discourse features and explored their relationships to the composing processes, immediate personal traits, and larger environmental factors.…
The representation of ‘immigrant’ in news discourse
The representation of immigrants in the media has been a long-standing and contentious issue in public, political, and social discourse. In today’s increasingly complex geopolitical landscape, the portrayal of immigrants has become even more controversial. This study employs Sinclair’s model of Extended Units of Meaning to examine the representation of immigrants in written media discourse using the enTenTen21 corpora on Sketch Engine. Utilizing …
Wǔxiá and Genre Names in Mandarin
The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of the Mandarin genre name Wǔxiá, a name usually referring to a Chinese genre of narratives involving martially skilled protagonists and heroic deeds. We show that Mandarin speakers use Wǔxiá across different contexts as a genre name expressing subtly different degrees of context-based content. For instance, users in on-line conversations may label any fantastic-like fiction as Wǔxiá, but literature …
Between regulation and accessibility
Empowering autonomy in language learning
This study explores the effectiveness of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) in teaching noun collocations to pre-tertiary learners in Hubei Province, China, using the online corpus tool ‘Corpusmate’. Acknowledging the importance and challenge of mastering collocations in learning a foreign language, this study focuses on the effects of DDL on pre-tertiary learners, an area less examined previously due to the complexities associated with using corpus tool…
Online peer feedback via Moodle forum
Informal digital learning of English and L2 willingness to communicate
This study was conducted with two goals in mind: (1) to explore the mediating roles of L2 enjoyment as a positive emotion and L2 anxiety as a negative emotion in the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) in an exam-oriented EFL context, and (2) to further examine whether gender and educational stage play any role in these relationships. Participants include 1,265 Korean EFL lea…
Urbanonyms in Macao
The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of urban place names (“urbanonyms”) in Macao, China. This city has a centuries-long tradition of multi-cultural and linguistic integration, with Chinese and Portuguese representing the two oldest linguistic and cultural realities. Due to the considerable growth of Macao as a global commercial hub, English has also become an emergent lingua franca in this city’s territory and society. However, gazette…
Anxiety symptoms in older Chinese adults in primary care settings
Background Integrating mental health services into primary care is a potentially cost-effective way to decrease the treatment gap for anxiety in older adults but data on the epidemiology of anxiety symptoms in older Chinese adults in primary care settings have been very limited. This study investigated the prevalence and correlates of anxiety symptoms in Chinese older primary care patients. Methods A total of 753 older primary care patients (≥65 …
The role of parents in the school accountability system
Developing preservice English teachers’ assessment literacy through design-based research
This report describes a teaching development grant (TDG) project that adopted a design-based research approach to enhance the language assessment literacy of preservice English teachers. In small groups, 92 preservice teachers engaged in test development projects, during which they developed tailor-made language tests for collaborating schools, implemented the tests, analysed responses, evaluated the tests, provided feedback to the schools, and w…
Preservice teachers’ implementation of formative assessment in English writing class
Depressive State in the Emergency Department During Covid-19
Chinese emergency department (ED) staff encountered significant mental stress while fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We sought to investigate the prevalence and associated factors for depressive symptoms among ED staff (including physicians, nurses, allied health, and auxiliary ED staff). A cross-sectional national survey of ED staff who were on duty and participated in combating the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted March…
The Relationship Between Serum Cytokine Levels and the Degree of Psychosis and Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis in Chinese Patients
Background: Cytokine levels can be changed in methamphetamine (METH) use disorders (MUDs) and primary psychosis. The present study assessed serum levels of some kinds of interleukins (ILs) in METH-associated psychosis (MAP) and their relationships with psychotic symptoms and cognitive dysfunction. Methods: Serum IL-2R, IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10 levels were examined by chemiluminescence assays in MAP patients ( n = 119) and healthy controls ( n = 108)…
Do component weighting and testing method affect time management and approaches to test preparation? A study on the washback mechanism
Recent developments in corpus linguistics and corpus-based research / Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education
Corpus linguistics has transformed the landscape of empirical research on languages in recent decades. The proliferation of corpus technology has enabled researchers worldwide to conduct research in their own geographical locations with few hindrances. It has become increasingly commonplace for researchers to compile their own corpora for specific research questions or to conduct research on the basis of corpora constructed by other researchers. …
Do test design and uses influence test preparation? Testing a model of washback with Structural Equation Modeling
This study introduces Expectancy-value motivation theory to explain the paths of influences from perceptions of test design and uses to test preparation as a special case of washback on learning. Based on this theory, two conceptual models were proposed and tested via Structural Equation Modeling. Data collection involved over 870 test takers of College English Test Band 4 in China. A perception of assessment questionnaire was given at the beginn…
Language and Literature Division, Faculty of Education, Hong Kong University
The Language and Literature Division (LLD) is the largest of the six divisions of the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (HKU). It is currently home to 34 academic staff, who specialize either in the fields of Chinese Language, English Language and/or Literature Education, and to 60 full-time and 28 part-time doctoral students, who are researching a wide range of topics including subjects as diverse as corpus-aided language learning, t…
Informal digital learning of English and L2 willingness to communicate
This study was conducted with two goals in mind: (1) to explore the mediating roles of L2 enjoyment as a positive emotion and L2 anxiety as a negative emotion in the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) in an exam-oriented EFL context, and (2) to further examine whether gender and educational stage play any role in these relationships. Participants include 1,265 Korean EFL lea…
Language and Literature Division, Faculty of Education, Hong Kong University
The Language and Literature Division (LLD) is the largest of the six divisions of the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (HKU). It is currently home to 34 academic staff, who specialize either in the fields of Chinese Language, English Language and/or Literature Education, and to 60 full-time and 28 part-time doctoral students, who are researching a wide range of topics including subjects as diverse as corpus-aided language learning, t…
Do test design and uses influence test preparation? Testing a model of washback with Structural Equation Modeling
This study introduces Expectancy-value motivation theory to explain the paths of influences from perceptions of test design and uses to test preparation as a special case of washback on learning. Based on this theory, two conceptual models were proposed and tested via Structural Equation Modeling. Data collection involved over 870 test takers of College English Test Band 4 in China. A perception of assessment questionnaire was given at the beginn…
Do component weighting and testing method affect time management and approaches to test preparation? A study on the washback mechanism
Recent developments in corpus linguistics and corpus-based research / Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education
Corpus linguistics has transformed the landscape of empirical research on languages in recent decades. The proliferation of corpus technology has enabled researchers worldwide to conduct research in their own geographical locations with few hindrances. It has become increasingly commonplace for researchers to compile their own corpora for specific research questions or to conduct research on the basis of corpora constructed by other researchers. …
The Relationship Between Serum Cytokine Levels and the Degree of Psychosis and Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis in Chinese Patients
Background: Cytokine levels can be changed in methamphetamine (METH) use disorders (MUDs) and primary psychosis. The present study assessed serum levels of some kinds of interleukins (ILs) in METH-associated psychosis (MAP) and their relationships with psychotic symptoms and cognitive dysfunction. Methods: Serum IL-2R, IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10 levels were examined by chemiluminescence assays in MAP patients ( n = 119) and healthy controls ( n = 108)…
Developing preservice English teachers’ assessment literacy through design-based research
This report describes a teaching development grant (TDG) project that adopted a design-based research approach to enhance the language assessment literacy of preservice English teachers. In small groups, 92 preservice teachers engaged in test development projects, during which they developed tailor-made language tests for collaborating schools, implemented the tests, analysed responses, evaluated the tests, provided feedback to the schools, and w…
Preservice teachers’ implementation of formative assessment in English writing class
Depressive State in the Emergency Department During Covid-19
Chinese emergency department (ED) staff encountered significant mental stress while fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We sought to investigate the prevalence and associated factors for depressive symptoms among ED staff (including physicians, nurses, allied health, and auxiliary ED staff). A cross-sectional national survey of ED staff who were on duty and participated in combating the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted March…
Anxiety symptoms in older Chinese adults in primary care settings
Background Integrating mental health services into primary care is a potentially cost-effective way to decrease the treatment gap for anxiety in older adults but data on the epidemiology of anxiety symptoms in older Chinese adults in primary care settings have been very limited. This study investigated the prevalence and correlates of anxiety symptoms in Chinese older primary care patients. Methods A total of 753 older primary care patients (≥65 …
The role of parents in the school accountability system
Urbanonyms in Macao
The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of urban place names (“urbanonyms”) in Macao, China. This city has a centuries-long tradition of multi-cultural and linguistic integration, with Chinese and Portuguese representing the two oldest linguistic and cultural realities. Due to the considerable growth of Macao as a global commercial hub, English has also become an emergent lingua franca in this city’s territory and society. However, gazette…
Empowering autonomy in language learning
This study explores the effectiveness of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) in teaching noun collocations to pre-tertiary learners in Hubei Province, China, using the online corpus tool ‘Corpusmate’. Acknowledging the importance and challenge of mastering collocations in learning a foreign language, this study focuses on the effects of DDL on pre-tertiary learners, an area less examined previously due to the complexities associated with using corpus tool…
Online peer feedback via Moodle forum
Informal digital learning of English and L2 willingness to communicate
This study was conducted with two goals in mind: (1) to explore the mediating roles of L2 enjoyment as a positive emotion and L2 anxiety as a negative emotion in the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) in an exam-oriented EFL context, and (2) to further examine whether gender and educational stage play any role in these relationships. Participants include 1,265 Korean EFL lea…
Between regulation and accessibility
Can citations indicate performance levels? An investigation of integrated argumentative writing tests
A framework for developing university policies on generative AI governance
As generative AI (GAI) becomes increasingly embedded in higher education, universities worldwide are developing policies to govern its ethical, pedagogical, and institutional use. However, these policies vary across national and institutional contexts. We undertake a cross-national analysis of GAI guidelines issued by leading universities in the United States, Japan, and China, identifying key policy orientations and proposing a structured framew…
Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing
This study employed a multiple-case study design to investigate nine English-as-a-foreign-language undergraduates’ disciplinary writing experiences in a bilingual teaching and learning context. Drawing on writing samples, writer’s logs, and semi-structured interviews, the study identified weaknesses in their discourse features and explored their relationships to the composing processes, immediate personal traits, and larger environmental factors.…
The representation of ‘immigrant’ in news discourse
The representation of immigrants in the media has been a long-standing and contentious issue in public, political, and social discourse. In today’s increasingly complex geopolitical landscape, the portrayal of immigrants has become even more controversial. This study employs Sinclair’s model of Extended Units of Meaning to examine the representation of immigrants in written media discourse using the enTenTen21 corpora on Sketch Engine. Utilizing …
Wǔxiá and Genre Names in Mandarin
The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of the Mandarin genre name Wǔxiá, a name usually referring to a Chinese genre of narratives involving martially skilled protagonists and heroic deeds. We show that Mandarin speakers use Wǔxiá across different contexts as a genre name expressing subtly different degrees of context-based content. For instance, users in on-line conversations may label any fantastic-like fiction as Wǔxiá, but literature …
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Student Assessment and Feedback (6 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)