Shuling Wu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4796293 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shuling Wu |
| PRENOMES | Shuling |
| SOBRENOME | Wu |
| ASSINATURA | WU S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6830-0075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Rethinking Language Proficiency
We enjoyed reading Jan Hustijn’s update of his Basic Language Cognition (BLC) theory in the pages of Languages (Hulstijn, 2024), and we are honored to provide a commentary here. Researchers, language learners, and educators hold varying definitions and understandings of language proficiency. Innovative work that helps researchers in the field rethink proficiency is therefore of utmost importance. Hulstijn’s BLC theory offers a clear, well-motivat…
Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 Proficiency
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Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 Proficiency
Elicited imitation (EI), a short-cut measure of global proficiency in second language (L2) research, requires participants to listen to sentences and repeat them as closely as possible. To support instrument sharing and assessment of L2 proficiency for longitudinal and crosslinguistic research, we created a parallel form of an EI task (EIT) for L2 English originally developed by the third author and colleagues and investigated the reliability and…
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events
As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu’s (2016) investigation on motion expressions produced by 80 L1 satellite-framed English learners of L2 Chinese to include newly collected …
The Planning, Implementation, and Assessment of an International Internship Program
This exploratory case study reported the planning, implementation, and assessment of an international internship undertaken in a Taiwanese company by an American university student who was operating independently abroad. The model required the student to establish learning objectives, self‐assess language use and learning strategies, and engage in critical reflection. Weekly oral journals and pre/post language proficiency test results revealed su…
Listening for Imagery by Native Speakers and L2 Learners
Slobin's thinking-for-speaking (TFS) hypothesis suggests that speakers are habitually attuned to aspects of an event that are readily codable in the language while they are formulating speech. This TFS process varies considerably cross-linguistically and can be observed in all forms of production and reception including listening for understanding or mental imagery. This study explored whether second language learners (L2) engage in mental simula…
Measuring global oral proficiency in SLA research
This article describes a new Chinese Elicited Imitation Test (EIT) and reports on a study that investigated the degree to which it functions as a tool that can be used in second language acquisition research to gauge global second language (L2) oral proficiency. Eighty L2 Chinese learners, sampled from two university curricular levels so as to represent high and low linguistic abilities and including both heritage and foreign language learners, p…
Learning to Express Motion Events in an L2
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework—Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events—to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A controlled composition task and a picture-cued written task were administered to elicit learners’ knowledge an…
Measuring global oral proficiency in SLA research
This article describes a new Chinese Elicited Imitation Test (EIT) and reports on a study that investigated the degree to which it functions as a tool that can be used in second language acquisition research to gauge global second language (L2) oral proficiency. Eighty L2 Chinese learners, sampled from two university curricular levels so as to represent high and low linguistic abilities and including both heritage and foreign language learners, p…
Learning to Express Motion Events in an L2
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework—Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events—to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A controlled composition task and a picture-cued written task were administered to elicit learners’ knowledge an…
The Planning, Implementation, and Assessment of an International Internship Program
This exploratory case study reported the planning, implementation, and assessment of an international internship undertaken in a Taiwanese company by an American university student who was operating independently abroad. The model required the student to establish learning objectives, self‐assess language use and learning strategies, and engage in critical reflection. Weekly oral journals and pre/post language proficiency test results revealed su…
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events
As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu’s (2016) investigation on motion expressions produced by 80 L1 satellite-framed English learners of L2 Chinese to include newly collected …
Learning to Express Motion Events in an L2
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework—Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events—to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A controlled composition task and a picture-cued written task were administered to elicit learners’ knowledge an…
Measuring global oral proficiency in SLA research
This article describes a new Chinese Elicited Imitation Test (EIT) and reports on a study that investigated the degree to which it functions as a tool that can be used in second language acquisition research to gauge global second language (L2) oral proficiency. Eighty L2 Chinese learners, sampled from two university curricular levels so as to represent high and low linguistic abilities and including both heritage and foreign language learners, p…
Listening for Imagery by Native Speakers and L2 Learners
Slobin's thinking-for-speaking (TFS) hypothesis suggests that speakers are habitually attuned to aspects of an event that are readily codable in the language while they are formulating speech. This TFS process varies considerably cross-linguistically and can be observed in all forms of production and reception including listening for understanding or mental imagery. This study explored whether second language learners (L2) engage in mental simula…
The Planning, Implementation, and Assessment of an International Internship Program
This exploratory case study reported the planning, implementation, and assessment of an international internship undertaken in a Taiwanese company by an American university student who was operating independently abroad. The model required the student to establish learning objectives, self‐assess language use and learning strategies, and engage in critical reflection. Weekly oral journals and pre/post language proficiency test results revealed su…
Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 Proficiency
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 Proficiency
Elicited imitation (EI), a short-cut measure of global proficiency in second language (L2) research, requires participants to listen to sentences and repeat them as closely as possible. To support instrument sharing and assessment of L2 proficiency for longitudinal and crosslinguistic research, we created a parallel form of an EI task (EIT) for L2 English originally developed by the third author and colleagues and investigated the reliability and…
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events
As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu’s (2016) investigation on motion expressions produced by 80 L1 satellite-framed English learners of L2 Chinese to include newly collected …
Rethinking Language Proficiency
We enjoyed reading Jan Hustijn’s update of his Basic Language Cognition (BLC) theory in the pages of Languages (Hulstijn, 2024), and we are honored to provide a commentary here. Researchers, language learners, and educators hold varying definitions and understandings of language proficiency. Innovative work that helps researchers in the field rethink proficiency is therefore of utmost importance. Hulstijn’s BLC theory offers a clear, well-motivat…
Psychology (8 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras) · Mathematics education (4 obras) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 obras) · Cognitive psychology (3 obras) · First language (3 obras) · Imitation (3 obras)