The research team of Business English was established in May 2016. It iscomposed of 18 teachers, among them, 1 professor, 5 associate professors and 12lecturers. The main task of this team is to research on the ways to bettereducate Business English majors.

Head:            XIAOHaozhang (Professor, PhD)

Memebers:     HERuiyu              LI Yuzhuang          LI Chengwei          ZHENG Chengying

                    YANG Shu            TENG Qiaoyun        LI Feiwu                LVJing

                    YU Weiting            LIU Xia                 ZHANG Ling          XIE Zhiping

                    LIN Guishan          ZHU Jie                 YANXiaoli             YANG Xue

                    YU Lebing

Achievements

Projects

1.XIAO Haozhang, leading researcher of theproject, “Empirical Studies of high level tertiary English teachingand its alignment with Majors”, funded byGuangdong Province Office of Education, 2015-2017.

2. LIU Xia. A contrastive study of two textbooks:Language Leader and New Horizon English, from the constructivist perspective,funded by South China Agricultural University (2015-2017, director)   
3. LIU Xia. A contrastive study of modality inEnglish and Chinese, from the perspective of systemic functional typology,funded by National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (2015-2018,a principal participator) 

4. LIFeiwu. A study of blended teaching mode for Business English course, funded byGuangdong Provincial planning Office of Philosophy andSocial Science, (2016-2018, chair).

Publications

1. XIAOHaozhang. Eco-interaction and Context: An Architecture of GuangzhouMultilingual

Cultures[M]. Guangzhou: Jinan University Press, 2017.

2. XIAO,Haozhang, Meizhen，Zhou & Yuting，Liu. An eco-context study of the effects of input tasks and teachingsettings on listening comprehension [J]. forthcoming.

3. LI Jinhai & XIAOHaozhang. Effects of English films with and without subtitles on listening comprehensionof Business English majors[J]. Testing andEvaluation, 2017 (5).

4. Wu Yuhua, XIAOHaozhang and ZHOU Meizhou. An investigation into the uses of discourse markersof Chinese English majors[J]. CampusEnglish, 2017(5).

5. LIFeiwu. A Study of ESP Course Development at Universities from the Perspectiveof Educational Ecology [J]. The Science Education Article Collects,2017(11)forthcoming.

6. LIU Xia. A contrastive study of two textbooks:Language Leader and New Horizon English [J]. Overseas English,2016(5):13-21.  
7. LIU Xia. An Analysis of the Semantic Featuresof Modal Verbs and Some Suggestions for English Teaching [J]. Overseas English,2016(3):197-199.

8. Yang, X. 2017. An Ethnographic Research ofFeminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis applied in Business EnglishClassroom Context. Beijing: Business Languages and Communication (ChiefEditor:Wang Lifei)14: 65-76.

Honors

1. First prize of SCAU Teaching Achievements wonby Xiao Haozhang, Zhong Zhiying, Yin Xiaoxia, Feng Lixin, Li Feiwu, etc. 

2. Two second places and one third place in the “NationalBusiness English Practice Contest” (South China Region).