Ningyang Chen received her BA in English from Xi'an International Studies University, Shaanxi, and then went to Fudan University, Shanghai, to pursue graduate studies.

Ningyang Chen is a lecturer of English language and literature at the School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University, Jiangsu, China, where she conducts research and teaches English major undergraduates. She received her BA in English from Xi’an International Studies University, Shaanxi, and then went to Fudan University, Shanghai, to pursue graduate studies. She has broad academic interests and is particularly interested in humanistic approaches to teaching and researching languages. She is now working on projects investigating academic writing and publishing experiences of Chinese social sciences and humanities scholars as well as the multilingual and multicultural development among people working and studying in China. Her essay “The story of a loner learner: Reconsidering authenticity and authentic engagement in second language learning” was awarded the runner-up Christopher Brumfit Essay Prize 2021. Her recent publications have appeared in Language and Semiotic Studies, English Today, and Bilingual Research Journal.

Ningyang Chen is now working on projects investigating academic writing and publishing experiences of Chinese social sciences and humanities scholars as well as the multilingual and multicultural development among people working and studying in China. Her essay “The story of a loner learner: Reconsidering authenticity and authentic engagement in second language learning” was awarded the runner-up Christopher Brumfit Essay Prize 2021. Her recent publications have appeared in Language and Semiotic Studies, English Today, and Bilingual Research Journal.

Undergraduate courses

•Academic writing in English

•BA graduation thesis design

•English speaking

•Principles and methods of teaching English as a foreign language (in collaboration with professors from the School of Foreign Languages)

•Written communication (in collaboration with professors from the School of Chinese Language and Literature)

Master’s course

•Principles and practices of teaching English as a foreign language (in collaboration with professors from the School of Foreign Languages)

Doctoral course

•Advanced scientific writing for publication (in collaboration with professors from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Five-year research grant for “National and International publishing experiences of Chinese academics in the humanities and social sciences,” (No. 21YJC740005) investigating the writing and publishing practices of students and faculty in social sciences and humanities in China’s mainland universities. Principal investigator. 

Encyclopedia Chapter

Chen, N. (in preparation). Authenticity and language learning. In R. Boobalan, N. Mahendran, & P. Ravichandran, (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.

Refereed Journal Articles (selected)

Chen, N. (2023). Language, research, and publication: A retrospective autoethnographic account of a peripheral outcast author. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 4(2), 140-163.

Chen, N. (2023). Publishing nationally or internationally in the humanities and social sciences: What do journal websites say about the divide? Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 54(2), 313-337.

Chen, N. (2023). Chinese-English academic writing practice from a biliteracy-informed genre perspective [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Second Language Writing, 7, 62-72.

Chen, N. & Gu, C. (2022). From ‘main course’ to ‘side dish?’ Debates about removing English as a core subject for Chinese students receiving compulsory education. Changing English, 30(1), 54-65.

Chen, N. (2022). The story of a loner learner: Reconsidering authenticity and authentic engagement in second language learning. Language Teaching, 56(1), 22-28. [Christopher Brumfit Essay Prize 2021 runner-up]

Chen, N. (2022). Discursive construction in multilingual crisis risk communication: An analysis of ‘A letter to foreign nationals’ messages in China’s COVID-19 fight. Discourse Studies, 24(4), 404-422.  

Chen, N. (2022). ‘Why should a “foreigner” be better than me?’ Preferential practices in junior academic faculty recruitment among mainland Chinese universities. Tertiary Education and Management, 28, 17-41. 

Chen, N. (2021). Translation as subversion and subjugation: Sándor Petőf’s ‘Liberty and Love’ in China. Neohelicon, 48, 577-597.

Chen, N. (2021). Research and teaching of Chinese for academic purposes [in Chinese]. Social Sciences Journal, 9 September, 005.

Chen, N. (2021). A study of linguistic differences in second- and native-language writing across genres [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Second Language Writing, 2, 14-25.

Chen, N. (2020). Epistemic attrition in intercultural academic communication [in Chinese]. Intercultural Studies Forum, 1, 57-72.

Chen, N. (2020). Semiotic resourcefulness in crisis risk communication: The case of COVID-19 posters. Language and Semiotic Studies, 6(3), 1-27.

Chen, N. (2020). Where are we going and where have we been? A response to ‘Back to basics’. English Today, 36(4), 30-32.

Chen, N. (2020). The English major crisis in China: Why did the once-popular major fall out of favour among Chinese students? English Today, 36(4), 15-23.

Chen, N. (2018). Is the English major a ‘guilty conscience’ major? [in Chinese] Contemporary Foreign Language Studies, 6, 32-45.

Chen, N. (2017). Bridging the unbridgeable: A semiotic solution to seeking tertium comparationis in linguistic analysis. Chinese Semiotic Studies, 13(3), 255-267.

Chen, N. (2017). Contemporary notes on the changing language landscape. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 10(3), 409-418.

Chen, N. (2016). Negotiating with language and culture: Research practice using English as an academic lingua franca. Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 9(4), 695-702.

Chen, N. (2015). Challenging machines to the language game: Wittgensteinian philosophy and future dimensions of Artificial Intelligence. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 8(3), 487-500.

Chen, N. (2014). A corpus-based comparative study of metaphors in English and Chinese academic discourse [in Chinese]. Fudan Forum on Forum Languages and Literature, 2, 66-70.

Book Reviews (selected)

Chen, N. (2024). Review of International faculty in Asia: In comparative global perspective. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 26(1), 76-78.

Chen, N. (2023). Review of Eco-translatology: Towards an eco-paradigm of translation. Translation & Interpreting, 15(1), 288-292.

Chen, N. (2022). Review of Ignorance is bliss: The Chinese art of not knowing.Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 49(3), 313-315.

Chen, N. (2021). Review of Plurilingual pedagogies: Critical and creative endeavours for equitable language in education.International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(6),2321-2324.

Chen, N. (2021). Review of Applied linguistics and language teaching in the neo-nationalist era. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 31(3), 557-560.

Chen, N. (2018). Review of Grammatical complexity in academic English: Linguistic change in writing. Corpora, 3,125-128.

Chen, N. (2018). Review of Signalling nouns in English: A corpus-based discourse approach [in Chinese]. Corpus Linguistics. 5(1), 105-109.

Chen, N. (2017). Review of Grammatical complexity in academic English: Linguistic change in writing [in Chinese]. Corpus Linguistics, 4(1),89-93.

Wordlist

Shanghai Advisory Committee for College English Teaching at Tertiary Level. (2015). Content Creator. The reference word list for teaching English for General Academic Purposes. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. Compiled the list for tertiary-level English teaching.