Rining Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 163984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rining Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rining |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7438-4244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring motivational and reflective dimensions of dialogue journal writing
In higher education English as a foreign language classrooms, writing is often underemphasised outside specialised courses for language majors, leaving students with limited opportunities to practice. This study investigates dialogue journal writing—an interactive written exchange between two interlocutors—as a means of addressing this pedagogical need. Forty-nine first-year undergraduates at a technical university in Taiwan engaged in both gener…
‘The confidence I have in the classroom just isn’t there’
This study explores the emotional experiences and identity construction of two English LX language teachers – late-exit learners who acquired English after their first language(s) became established. These two English LX language teachers participated in a short-term, outcome-oriented professional learning community (PLC) focused on quantitative research methods, working within predominantly Anglophone academic spaces where they occupied a lingui…
Uncertainty Avoidance, News Genres and Framing of Traditional Chinese Medicine
This study explores how news media in different countries, varying in Hofstede’s cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance, frame traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It also examines how news framing of TCM differs between the two main news genres: news reports and editorials. A comparative content analysis of 196 news pieces on TCM from seven countries was conducted. The results indicate that a country’s uncertainty avoidance index (UAI) influ…
Narrow-Reading Supported Writing Instruction on Chinese EFL Learners’ Writing Quality and Self-Efficacy
This study investigates the effects of narrow reading as writing sources on Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing quality in classroom settings. It also explores the potential correlations between writing self-efficacy and the narrow-reading supported writing instruction. To this end, a classroom-based study was conducted with 91 senior high school students from two parallel classes in China to assess their English writing…
Incidental Vocabulary Learning Through Reading While Listening in the Chinese EFL Classroom Context
This longitudinal mixed-method study investigated effects of the reading-while-listening mode on the incidental learning of two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge, namely receptive knowledge and productive knowledge, in a Chinese EFL classroom context. Additionally, EFL learners’ attitudes toward the reading-while-listening mode of incidental vocabulary learning were examined. Seventy-eight Chinese EFL students with typical vocabulary sizes aroun…
Is language proficiency linked to intercultural communicative competence
Is multilingualism linked to attitudes toward gender equality? Evidence from a big data survey
National identity and multilingualism
In the field of multilingualism, limited research has explored the link between language proficiency and national identity, although the key role of language in the national identity (NI) formation has been acknowledged in other fields (e.g. sociology) over the past five decades. Aiming to narrow this gap, the present study examined Chinese Mongolian students' NI and the influence from multilingualism (operationalised as self-rated proficiency in…
Is foreign-language-based bilingualism linked to digital literacy among older adults
Is bilingualism linked to well-being? Evidence from a big-data survey
In applied linguistics generally and bilingualism research in particular, psychological variables remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences compared with cognitive ones. To better understand the under-researched psychological effects of bilingualism, this study investigated well-being, a psychological construct, based on a big-data survey. Drawing upon a national survey ( N = 12,582), we examined the influence of bil…
Do teachers’ well-being and resilience predict their Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE)
This study was one (partial) replication of the first study focusing on FL teacher enjoyment with the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE) Scale. The influence of well-being, resilience, and some selected socio-biographical variables on FLTE was examined with a more refined data analysis approach based on hierarchical regression (i.e., offering a range of effect sizes for each predictor). Results showed that resilience (Δ R 2 = 11.7 %–38.9 …
Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of homosexuality? Evidence from a national survey
Psychological variables (e.g. L2 grit) remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences compared with cognitive ones (e.g. aptitude). The present paper aims to gain a better understanding of the psychological effects of multilingualism by investigating tolerance of homosexuality (TH), which has received little scholarly attention from multilingualism researchers. Relevant data from the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey, wh…
Is bilingualism linked to national identity? Evidence from a big data survey
10.1080/01434632.2022.2085282
Examining resilience in EFL contexts
Resilience, a psychological individual difference variable, has not received adequate scholarly attention in education contexts. The present study investigated the resilience level among 273 university EFL learners in China with T.-Y. Kim and Kim’s (2017. The impact of resilience on L2 learners’ motivated behaviour and proficiency in L2 learning. Educational Studies 43(1). 1–15) scale, which comprised five sub-components of resilience in the Kore…
The relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and multilingualism revisited
Tolerance of ambiguity (TA), an inclination to embrace incongruent scenarios, is highly relevant to second/additional language learning which is an immersion in ambiguity. In applied linguistics research, recent studies have examined TA vis-à-vis multilingualism based on Herman et al.’s (2010) 12-item scale and identified a 3-item dimension of this construct (labelled as TA core) that is hypothesised to exist in different cultural contexts (Wei &…
Attitudes toward trilingualism
Trilingualism is a powerful fact of life in many parts of the world, including most autonomous regions inhabited by minority ethnic groups in China. Although much research has been conducted on the language attitudes of stakeholders from minority ethnic groups, the attitudinal object is usually an individual language (e.g. the ethnic language, the national language, or a foreign language). Few empirical studies have investigated ‘trilingualism’ a…
Violent Videogames, Telepresence, Presumed Influence, and Support for Taking Restrictive and Protective Actions
This study examines the perceived impact of violent videogames from an influence of presumed influence perspective. The role of perceived telepresence and the amount of time spent playing violent videogames in influencing people’s beliefs about the effects of such games were hypothesized and tested. Results of data collected from a random sample of 528 respondents in China showed that playing violent videogames was significantly related to percei…
Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context
Effect Size Reporting Practices in Applied Linguistics Research
Many surveys of effect size (ES) reporting practices have been conducted in social science fields such as psychology and education, but few such studies are available in applied linguistics. To bridge this gap and to echo the recent calls for more robust statistics from scholars in applied linguistics and beyond, this study represents the first attempt, in the field of applied linguistics, to focus upon ES reporting practices. With an innovative …
How framing of nationally and locally sensitive issues varies? A content analysis of news from party and nonparty newspapers in China
This study investigates how party and nonparty newspapers in China frame sensitive political issues differently, depending on their geographic relevance. Extant studies indicate that political control influences how news organizations present an issue. The assumption is that the framing of nationally sensitive issues is similar across Chinese news outlets, while the framing of locally sensitive issues diverges. An examination of the news frames u…
Implementing CLIL for young learners in an EFL context beyond Europe
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is ‘a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language’ (Coyle, Hood & Marsh, 2010: 1). It represents a model of bilingual education which, broadly speaking, involves some use of two (or more) languages of instruction in connection with teaching courses other than language per se
Surveying the English language across China
Although the Survey of Language Situation in China (中国语言文字使用情况调查, Zhongguo yuyan wenzi shiyong qingkuang diaocha), involving 475,000 respondents was conducted over a decade ago, it can still provide insights into the sociolinguistic situation of English in the world's most populous country. The present paper analyses data from this survey concerning respondents' (1) use of English, (2) English reading proficiency, (3) English spoken proficiency, …
The statistics of English in China
In the mid-1980s, Crystal (1985) lamented that there were no reliable figures available for the number of learners to whom English is taught as a foreign language in many regions of the world, and that ‘China has always been excluded from the statistical reviews, because of the shortage of information from inside the country’ (Crystal, 1985: 9). More recently, Bolton (2008: 6) similarly notes that because of ‘the absence of accurate language surv…
Parental support for Chinese–English bilingual education
While many studies conducted outside China attest to the importance of parental support in determining the extent of success in implementing a bilingual education (BE) programme, few empirical studies have been conducted into the strength of parental support for Chinese–English BE in mainland China. This paper reports upon a survey targeting parents of students who were receiving some form of BE in Shanghai (viz. BE parents, N=199) and parents of…
Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context
Surveying the English language across China
Although the Survey of Language Situation in China (中国语言文字使用情况调查, Zhongguo yuyan wenzi shiyong qingkuang diaocha), involving 475,000 respondents was conducted over a decade ago, it can still provide insights into the sociolinguistic situation of English in the world's most populous country. The present paper analyses data from this survey concerning respondents' (1) use of English, (2) English reading proficiency, (3) English spoken proficiency, …
How framing of nationally and locally sensitive issues varies? A content analysis of news from party and nonparty newspapers in China
This study investigates how party and nonparty newspapers in China frame sensitive political issues differently, depending on their geographic relevance. Extant studies indicate that political control influences how news organizations present an issue. The assumption is that the framing of nationally sensitive issues is similar across Chinese news outlets, while the framing of locally sensitive issues diverges. An examination of the news frames u…
Attitudes toward trilingualism
Trilingualism is a powerful fact of life in many parts of the world, including most autonomous regions inhabited by minority ethnic groups in China. Although much research has been conducted on the language attitudes of stakeholders from minority ethnic groups, the attitudinal object is usually an individual language (e.g. the ethnic language, the national language, or a foreign language). Few empirical studies have investigated ‘trilingualism’ a…
Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of homosexuality? Evidence from a national survey
Psychological variables (e.g. L2 grit) remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences compared with cognitive ones (e.g. aptitude). The present paper aims to gain a better understanding of the psychological effects of multilingualism by investigating tolerance of homosexuality (TH), which has received little scholarly attention from multilingualism researchers. Relevant data from the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey, wh…
Parental support for Chinese–English bilingual education
While many studies conducted outside China attest to the importance of parental support in determining the extent of success in implementing a bilingual education (BE) programme, few empirical studies have been conducted into the strength of parental support for Chinese–English BE in mainland China. This paper reports upon a survey targeting parents of students who were receiving some form of BE in Shanghai (viz. BE parents, N=199) and parents of…
The relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and multilingualism revisited
Tolerance of ambiguity (TA), an inclination to embrace incongruent scenarios, is highly relevant to second/additional language learning which is an immersion in ambiguity. In applied linguistics research, recent studies have examined TA vis-à-vis multilingualism based on Herman et al.’s (2010) 12-item scale and identified a 3-item dimension of this construct (labelled as TA core) that is hypothesised to exist in different cultural contexts (Wei &…
Effect Size Reporting Practices in Applied Linguistics Research
Many surveys of effect size (ES) reporting practices have been conducted in social science fields such as psychology and education, but few such studies are available in applied linguistics. To bridge this gap and to echo the recent calls for more robust statistics from scholars in applied linguistics and beyond, this study represents the first attempt, in the field of applied linguistics, to focus upon ES reporting practices. With an innovative …
National identity and multilingualism
In the field of multilingualism, limited research has explored the link between language proficiency and national identity, although the key role of language in the national identity (NI) formation has been acknowledged in other fields (e.g. sociology) over the past five decades. Aiming to narrow this gap, the present study examined Chinese Mongolian students' NI and the influence from multilingualism (operationalised as self-rated proficiency in…
Is bilingualism linked to national identity? Evidence from a big data survey
10.1080/01434632.2022.2085282
Is language proficiency linked to intercultural communicative competence
Is foreign-language-based bilingualism linked to digital literacy among older adults
Parental support for Chinese–English bilingual education
While many studies conducted outside China attest to the importance of parental support in determining the extent of success in implementing a bilingual education (BE) programme, few empirical studies have been conducted into the strength of parental support for Chinese–English BE in mainland China. This paper reports upon a survey targeting parents of students who were receiving some form of BE in Shanghai (viz. BE parents, N=199) and parents of…
The statistics of English in China
In the mid-1980s, Crystal (1985) lamented that there were no reliable figures available for the number of learners to whom English is taught as a foreign language in many regions of the world, and that ‘China has always been excluded from the statistical reviews, because of the shortage of information from inside the country’ (Crystal, 1985: 9). More recently, Bolton (2008: 6) similarly notes that because of ‘the absence of accurate language surv…
Implementing CLIL for young learners in an EFL context beyond Europe
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is ‘a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language’ (Coyle, Hood & Marsh, 2010: 1). It represents a model of bilingual education which, broadly speaking, involves some use of two (or more) languages of instruction in connection with teaching courses other than language per se
Surveying the English language across China
Although the Survey of Language Situation in China (中国语言文字使用情况调查, Zhongguo yuyan wenzi shiyong qingkuang diaocha), involving 475,000 respondents was conducted over a decade ago, it can still provide insights into the sociolinguistic situation of English in the world's most populous country. The present paper analyses data from this survey concerning respondents' (1) use of English, (2) English reading proficiency, (3) English spoken proficiency, …
How framing of nationally and locally sensitive issues varies? A content analysis of news from party and nonparty newspapers in China
This study investigates how party and nonparty newspapers in China frame sensitive political issues differently, depending on their geographic relevance. Extant studies indicate that political control influences how news organizations present an issue. The assumption is that the framing of nationally sensitive issues is similar across Chinese news outlets, while the framing of locally sensitive issues diverges. An examination of the news frames u…
Effect Size Reporting Practices in Applied Linguistics Research
Many surveys of effect size (ES) reporting practices have been conducted in social science fields such as psychology and education, but few such studies are available in applied linguistics. To bridge this gap and to echo the recent calls for more robust statistics from scholars in applied linguistics and beyond, this study represents the first attempt, in the field of applied linguistics, to focus upon ES reporting practices. With an innovative …
Violent Videogames, Telepresence, Presumed Influence, and Support for Taking Restrictive and Protective Actions
This study examines the perceived impact of violent videogames from an influence of presumed influence perspective. The role of perceived telepresence and the amount of time spent playing violent videogames in influencing people’s beliefs about the effects of such games were hypothesized and tested. Results of data collected from a random sample of 528 respondents in China showed that playing violent videogames was significantly related to percei…
Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context
Attitudes toward trilingualism
Trilingualism is a powerful fact of life in many parts of the world, including most autonomous regions inhabited by minority ethnic groups in China. Although much research has been conducted on the language attitudes of stakeholders from minority ethnic groups, the attitudinal object is usually an individual language (e.g. the ethnic language, the national language, or a foreign language). Few empirical studies have investigated ‘trilingualism’ a…
The relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and multilingualism revisited
Tolerance of ambiguity (TA), an inclination to embrace incongruent scenarios, is highly relevant to second/additional language learning which is an immersion in ambiguity. In applied linguistics research, recent studies have examined TA vis-à-vis multilingualism based on Herman et al.’s (2010) 12-item scale and identified a 3-item dimension of this construct (labelled as TA core) that is hypothesised to exist in different cultural contexts (Wei &…
Examining resilience in EFL contexts
Resilience, a psychological individual difference variable, has not received adequate scholarly attention in education contexts. The present study investigated the resilience level among 273 university EFL learners in China with T.-Y. Kim and Kim’s (2017. The impact of resilience on L2 learners’ motivated behaviour and proficiency in L2 learning. Educational Studies 43(1). 1–15) scale, which comprised five sub-components of resilience in the Kore…
Is bilingualism linked to well-being? Evidence from a big-data survey
In applied linguistics generally and bilingualism research in particular, psychological variables remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences compared with cognitive ones. To better understand the under-researched psychological effects of bilingualism, this study investigated well-being, a psychological construct, based on a big-data survey. Drawing upon a national survey ( N = 12,582), we examined the influence of bil…
Do teachers’ well-being and resilience predict their Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE)
This study was one (partial) replication of the first study focusing on FL teacher enjoyment with the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE) Scale. The influence of well-being, resilience, and some selected socio-biographical variables on FLTE was examined with a more refined data analysis approach based on hierarchical regression (i.e., offering a range of effect sizes for each predictor). Results showed that resilience (Δ R 2 = 11.7 %–38.9 …
Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of homosexuality? Evidence from a national survey
Psychological variables (e.g. L2 grit) remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences compared with cognitive ones (e.g. aptitude). The present paper aims to gain a better understanding of the psychological effects of multilingualism by investigating tolerance of homosexuality (TH), which has received little scholarly attention from multilingualism researchers. Relevant data from the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey, wh…
Is bilingualism linked to national identity? Evidence from a big data survey
10.1080/01434632.2022.2085282
Uncertainty Avoidance, News Genres and Framing of Traditional Chinese Medicine
This study explores how news media in different countries, varying in Hofstede’s cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance, frame traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It also examines how news framing of TCM differs between the two main news genres: news reports and editorials. A comparative content analysis of 196 news pieces on TCM from seven countries was conducted. The results indicate that a country’s uncertainty avoidance index (UAI) influ…
Narrow-Reading Supported Writing Instruction on Chinese EFL Learners’ Writing Quality and Self-Efficacy
This study investigates the effects of narrow reading as writing sources on Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing quality in classroom settings. It also explores the potential correlations between writing self-efficacy and the narrow-reading supported writing instruction. To this end, a classroom-based study was conducted with 91 senior high school students from two parallel classes in China to assess their English writing…
Incidental Vocabulary Learning Through Reading While Listening in the Chinese EFL Classroom Context
This longitudinal mixed-method study investigated effects of the reading-while-listening mode on the incidental learning of two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge, namely receptive knowledge and productive knowledge, in a Chinese EFL classroom context. Additionally, EFL learners’ attitudes toward the reading-while-listening mode of incidental vocabulary learning were examined. Seventy-eight Chinese EFL students with typical vocabulary sizes aroun…
Is language proficiency linked to intercultural communicative competence
Is multilingualism linked to attitudes toward gender equality? Evidence from a big data survey
National identity and multilingualism
In the field of multilingualism, limited research has explored the link between language proficiency and national identity, although the key role of language in the national identity (NI) formation has been acknowledged in other fields (e.g. sociology) over the past five decades. Aiming to narrow this gap, the present study examined Chinese Mongolian students' NI and the influence from multilingualism (operationalised as self-rated proficiency in…
Is foreign-language-based bilingualism linked to digital literacy among older adults
Exploring motivational and reflective dimensions of dialogue journal writing
In higher education English as a foreign language classrooms, writing is often underemphasised outside specialised courses for language majors, leaving students with limited opportunities to practice. This study investigates dialogue journal writing—an interactive written exchange between two interlocutors—as a means of addressing this pedagogical need. Forty-nine first-year undergraduates at a technical university in Taiwan engaged in both gener…
‘The confidence I have in the classroom just isn’t there’
This study explores the emotional experiences and identity construction of two English LX language teachers – late-exit learners who acquired English after their first language(s) became established. These two English LX language teachers participated in a short-term, outcome-oriented professional learning community (PLC) focused on quantitative research methods, working within predominantly Anglophone academic spaces where they occupied a lingui…
Psychology (19 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Foreign language (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works)