Year

Grant

Project

Principal Investigator

1997

China National Social Science Foundation

Corpus-based Error Analysis of Chinese EFL Learners

GUI Shichun

1998

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

Long-distance English Testing Sytem

ZENG Yongqiang

1999

Special Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

MakingA Great Modern French-Chinese Dictionaryand Constructing Corpus

HUANG Jianhua

2000

China National Social Science Foundation

Comparative Pragmatics and Cognitive Study of English-Chinese Discourse Markers

HE Ziran

2000

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Cognitive Psychological Analysis of Chinese EFL Learners’ Language Development Ability

WANG Chuming

2000

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Cognitive and Semantic Structures of Dictionary Definitions

HUANG Jianhua

2000

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Cognition and Pragmatics—Cognitive Research of Speech Communication

HE Ziran

2001

China National Social Science Foundation n

Self-images of Chinese EFL Learners

WANG Chuming

2001

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Formulaic Behaviour and Corresponding Utterance Patterns

QIAN Guanlian

2001

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

Chinese-English Bilingual Mental Lexicon

DONG Yanping

2001

New Century Education and Teaching Reform Project at Universities in Guangdong Province

Increase the Use of English, and Enhance the Effectiveness of English Learning

WANG Chuming

2002

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Sociolinguistics Studies: the Use of Written Language in ISO9000 Quality System

ZHENG Lihua

2002

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Bilingual Dictionary Generation System Based on Micro- Data Structure

ZHANG Yihua

2002

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Computer-assisted Language Testing

ZENG Yongqiang

2002

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Syntax: Deduction and Interpretation of Relative Structures

WEN Binli

2002

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Second Language Lexical Representation and Development

DONG Yanping

2003

China National Social Science Foundation

A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Discourse Patterns

CHEN Jianping

2003

Special Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

Effects of Cultural Differences between Chinese and English Language Systems on the Learning of English by Chinese Speakers

CHEN Jianping

2003

Grant of Guangdong Department of Education

Cultural Puzzles of Chinese Enterprises from the Certification for ISO9000 Quality Management System

ZHENG Lihua

2004

Grant of Guangdong Department of Education

Website: Diagnostic Learning of Reading Skills

ZENG Yongqiang

2004

Grant of Guangdong Department of Education

Subjectivity Theory of Literary Translation : Categorization and Empirical Studies

ZENG Lisha

2005

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Lexical Pragmatics: Use and Interpretation of English and Chinese Lexical Expressions

RAN Yongping

2005

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Western Philosophy of Language and Modern Language Research

QIAN Guanlian

2005

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Uncertainty and Language Testing

LIU Jianda

2005

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Syntax: A Minimalist Approach to the Ditransitive Construction.

HE Xiaowei

2005

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Chinese and English Legal Discourse Information Structures

DU Jinbang

2005

New Century Education and Teaching Reform Project at Universities in Guangdong Province

Models and Practice of Training Translators and Interpreters in Pan-Pearl River Delta

CHEN Jianping

2006

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Information Distribution of Legal Discourse and Linguistic Realization: A Corpus-based Study

DU Jinbang

2006

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

English Learners’ Dictionary Models: An Empirical Study

XU Hai

2006

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

L2 Chinese Dictionary Definitions from the User’s Perspective

ZHANG Yihua

2007

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Second Language Acquisition at Different Cognitive Interfaces

ZHENG Chao

2007

Grant of Guangdong Department of Education

Interactional Sociolinguistics Research

ZHENG Lihua

2008

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Integration and Systematicity of Translation Theories: A Cognitive Approach

ZENG Lisha

2008

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Cognitive Mechanisms of Interaction-based L2 Learning

WANG Chuming

2008

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

Gala of Discourse: Intertexuality of Chinese New Media

ZHENG Qingjun

2008

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

Themes and Socio-cultural Contextual Relevance and Integration: New Perspectives of Translation of Chinese Classic Poems

ZENG Lisha

2008

Higher Education Research Project, Guangdong Province

Optimizing the College English Teaching System

LIU Jianda

2009

China National Social Science Foundation

Conflict Speech and its Constraining Mechanism in Chinese and English from a Pragmatic Perspective

RAN Yongping

2009

China National Social Science Foundation

Study and Compilation of a New English-Chinese Dictionary for Chines EFL Learners

ZHANG Yihua

2009

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Language Control for Chinese-English Bilinguals: Evidence from Chinese-English Interpreting

DONG Yanping

2009

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Changes in Contemporary Chinese Society and Discourse Construction

CHEN Jianping

2009

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

Factors and Mechanisms of Verbal Shadowing Effect

LIU Lihong

2009

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

SLA Theories and New Generation of English-Chinese Learners’ Dictionaries

ZHANG Yihua

2009

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

Intertextuality of Chinese New Media

ZHENG Qingjun

2009

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

Translation and Cross-cultural Communication

CHEN Jianping

2010

China National Social Science Foundation

Interpreting Competence Getting Optimized During Interpreting Training

DONG Yanping

2010

China National Social Science Foundation

A Study of Grammatical Deficits in Chinese-speaking Children with SLI

HE Xiaowei

2010

China National Social Science Foundation

Examining the Washback of the English Tests in the National Assessment of Education

QI Luxia

2010

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

A Contrastive Study of Quantification in Chinese and English

ZHANG Qingwen

2010

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Interaction, Context and Second Language Development

WANG Chuming

2010

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

Pragmatic Analysis of Anaphors in Chinese and English Discourses

LIU Lijin

2010

Research Project for High-level Researchers in Guangdong Province

Automatic Rating for Large-scale Writing Tests

LIU Jianda

2010

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of and L2 Acquisition of English Long Distance Syntactic Structures

MA Zhigang

2010

Guangzhou Social Sciences Foundation Grant

Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse Anaphors

LIU Lijing

2011

China National Social Science Foundation

A Study on and Compilation of a Dictionary for Business English Learners

HE Jianing

2011

China National Social Science Foundation

A Survey and Study on the Intertextuality of the Chinese Internet Texts

ZHENG Qingjun

2011

National Philosophy annd Social Sciences Foundation Grant

English Proficiency Development of Chinese Learners: Evidence from the Second Language L2 Ambiguity Processing

ZHAO Chen

2011

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Testlet Response Theory and Item Banking

LIU Jianda

2011

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Corpus-based Studies of Language Testing

ZENG Yongqiang

2011

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

A Pragmatic Study of L2 Teachers’ Speech Acts

MO Aiping

2011

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

A Pragmatic Study of L2 Teachers’ Speech Acts

MO Aiping

2011

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

Written Corrective Feedback in Second Language Writing

JIANG Lin

2011

Guangdong Province TertiaryEducation Teaching Reform Project

Distance Education for Foreign Language Learners

LIU Jianda

2012

China National Social Science Foundation

Assessing Interlanguage Ability of Leaners of Chinese as a Foreign Language

LIU Jianda

2012

China National Social Science Foundation

Linguistic Geography of Fujian Liancheng

YAN Xiuhong

2012

China National Social Science Foundation

Study of Multimodality in New Media Public Legal Education Discourse in China

YUAN Chuanyou

2012

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

English Formulaic Language: Theories and Application

XU Hai

2012

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Corrective Feedback and the Development of Second Language Writing

OUYANG Huhua

2012

Research Project for High-level Researchers in Guangdong Province

A Pragmatic Study of Conflict and Mitigation in Interaction

RAN Yongping

2012

Guangdong Social Science Foundation

A Socia-pragmatic Study of Harmonious-disharmonious Discourse

RAN Yongping

2012

Major Program of China National Social Science Foundation

A Study of the L2 Chinese Learning Process for an Effective Teaching Model

WANG Chuming

2012

Key Program of China National Social Science Foundation

Study on China-related English Language Knowledge Base and its application system construction

ZHANG Yihua

2013

Grant of Chinese Ministry of Education

A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Spatial Languages

LIU Lijing

2013

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

Syntax of Temporal References in Modern Chinese

WEN Binli

2013

Major Grant of the National Key Research Centers for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China

The Dynamic Relationships between Cognitive Skills and Language Proficiency in Multilinguals

YANG Jing

2013

China National Social Science Foundation

Corpus-Based Legal Information Mining Mechanism and Its Application

DU Jinbang

2013

China National Social Science Foundation

Integration of Embodied Experience and Costruction: An Innoative Model for Teaching Translation

ZENG Lisha

British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Scheme

The Corpus-based Approach to the Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language

Richard Xiao, XU Hai

2014

Research Project for High-level Researchers in Guangdong Province

Models of Effective Feedback in Second Language Writing

JIANG Lin

2014

Foundation for Outstanding Young Teachers，Guangdong Province

How Second Language Learning Experience Shapes the Neural Substrates Underlying Perception of Faces of Races: A Study of Brain Effective Connectivity

YANG Jing