Xiaofei Tang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xiaofei Tang plays a role.
2022 Effects of linguistic proficiency on speech act development in L2 Chinese during study abroad Second language pragmatic development in study abroad contexts, Sánchez-Hernández, Ariadna (ed.), pp. 116–151 | Article
This study investigated the effects of different levels of linguistic proficiency on the development of multiple speech acts during study abroad. Participants were 109 American learners of Chinese recruited from a study abroad program in China. They were divided into a higher proficiency (HP)… read more
2021 Social contact and speech act strategies in a Chinese study abroad context Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 6:1, pp. 3–31 | Article
This study examined the relationship between reported amounts of social contact and speech act strategies among 70 learners of Chinese enrolled in a study abroad program in Beijing. The participants completed a computer-delivered spoken discourse completion task (spoken DCT) eliciting three… read more
2020 Task-based interactional sequences in different modalities: A comparison between computer-mediated written chat and face-to-face oral chat Applied Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 174–198 | Article
Recent research on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) showed the efficacy of using computer-mediated communication (CMC) to promote second language (L2) learning (Ziegler, 2016). However, few studies compared the interactional sequences during task-based interaction across different modalities… read more