Jing LIU
Professor
Telephone: +86-532-66787535
E-mail: jingliu@ouc.edu.cn
Educational Background
Ph.D.English, University of Washington, Seattle 2001
Dissertation: Mini-lectures of Chinese Native Speakers of
English: A Comparative Discourse Analysis
Supervisor: Professor Sandy Silberstein
M.A.T. English to Speakers of Other Languages, UW, Seattle1998
B. A. English, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing1985
Career History
Teaching
Professor, Ocean University of China2011 – Present
(Associate Professor, Ocean University of China2002 – 2011)
Teaching graduate courses: Ethnography of Communication, Intercultural
Communication Theory, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Supervising graduate students
Teaching undergraduate English major courses: Advanced Reading; Watching,
Listening & Speaking; Language & Culture; Intercultural Communication,
English Conversation, English Academic Writing, World Overview, English Films and Drama
Supervising BA thesis
Visiting Professor, University of Texas-Pan American2006 – 2007
Taught Rhetoric & Composition, Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, Language & Culture, and Fundamentals of Language Development
Instructor, South Seattle Community College2001 - 2002
Taught Advanced Level ESL
Teaching Assistant, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, UWWinter 2001
Taught beginning Mandarin Chinese
Instructor, Educational Outreach, UWAutumn 2000
Taught beginning Mandarin Chinese
Lecturer, Chengdu University1985 –1996
Taught undergraduate English major courses: Listening & Speaking, Extensive
Reading, Phonetics, and Intensive Reading
Other work
Associate Dean, College of Foreign Languages, OUC2014 – Present
Administering the college graduate programs and international exchanges and
cooperation
Associate Dean, College of Foreign Languages, Shihezi University2011 – 2014
Administered research projects, academic research exchanges, disciplinary
development, MA program, etc. Taught undergraduate and graduate courses.
Coordinator for Foreign Teachers, English Department, OUC2003 – 2006
Recommended to the University qualified foreign teachers for hiring and supervised their teaching
Graduate Staff Assistant, Language Learning Center, UW1997 – 2000
Maintained language learning labs; wrote manuals for use of labs; trained and
assisted instructors and students to use labs; gave presentations on new language
teaching technologies
Research Interests
Second language acquisition and teaching, intercultural communication, discourse analysis
Representative Publications and Achievements
Han, Z. & Liu, J. (2013). Recasting the story of recasts. In L. R. Yang (ed.) Second Language Acquisition Research in China (359-385). Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Yang, L. R., Liu, J., Li, X. K., & Chen, Y. (2012). Second language acquisition in China: Its status quo and development. Foreign Languages in China, 4, 107-111
Liu, J. (2011). (ed.). Advanced Academic English Writing. Beijing: Higher Education Press.
Liu, J. (2011). (ed.). College English Viewing, Listening and Speaking. Beijing: Higher Education Press.
Liu, J. & Mu, X. M. (2011). On classroom silence of Chinese adult learners of English as a foreign language. China Adult Education, 12, 131-133.
Liu, Jing & Chang, Y. (2010). Self Mention as Distinct Speech Codes in English Language Use in Intercultural Communication，Asian Englishes，13(2)，22-41.
Liu, J. (2010). A comparative analysis of syntactic features between spoken and written Chinese-English interlanguage discourse. Journal of Ocean University of China (Social Sciences), 4, 50-55.
Liu, J. (2009). Students’ construal of intercultural communication competence and intercultural communication teaching. Intercultural Communication Studies 18(2), 88-102.
Liu, J. (2008). Patterns of Chinese-English Interlanguage and Comprehensibility – A comparative discourse analysis of academic mini-lectures. Qingdao: China Ocean University Press.
Liu, J. & Mou, X.M. (2008). An Ethnographic Study on Silence in the Chinese EFL Class of English Linguistic Postgraduates. Intercultural Forum, 1(2).
