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Cao Feng

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6601 5012
Email: elccf@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-18 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

CAO Feng is a Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication. He has a PhD in applied linguistics and has extensive experience in teaching and coordinating courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Beyond his teaching in CELC, he has also offered short-term consultancy courses and workshops for research students from NUS School of Medicine and Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme. His research interest includes English for Academic/Specific Purposes, Academic writing, and Corpus linguistics. He has published research articles in journals such as English for Specific Purposes, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and Journal of Pragmatics. He also serves as manuscript reviewer for various peer-reviewed ELT journals, including Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Language Awareness, Linguistics and Education, Lingua, System, and Text & Talk.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • ES5001A Graduate English Course (Intermediate Level)
  • ES5101 Technical Communication for Engineers
  • ES5002 Advanced English Course
  • GS5002/6889B Academic Professional Skills and Techniques
  • MDG5214 Research Skills
  • ES1103 English for Academic Purposes

Awards & Recognition

  • Third Prize, International Contest on Blended Teaching and Learning, organized by Peking University, 2021

Grant Projects

  • CDTL Teaching Enhancement Grant Research, 2017- 2020 (PI): NUS Learner Corpus of Academic Writing.
  • CTLT Teaching Enhancement Grant Research, 2023-2024 (Co-investigator): Blended learning 2.0: best practices in designing a community of injury to enhance student learning in language and communication courses

Editorial Board

  • Editorial board member, Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Selected Publications (since 2019)

  • Yue, Y. Cao, F., & Hu, G. (2024). Exploring Evaluative Prosody (评价韵律探究). Foreign Language Research (外语学刊), 238, pp.43-47.
  • Gong, H., Liu, L., & Cao, F. (2023). A cross-linguistic study of interactional metadiscourse in English and Chinese research articles by the same Chinese scholars. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 22(6), 542–558. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2021.1932504
  • Cao, F., & Wu, S. M. (2022). Evaluative Phrase-Frames and Patterns in Doctoral Thesis Conclusions. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 12(1), 1-17. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCALLT.301196
  • Cao, F., & Hu, G. (2022). Multifunctionality of stance markers in soft sciences: A cross-disciplinary and cross-paradigmatic study. In Z. Yin & E. Vine (Eds.), Multifunctionality in English: Corpora, language and academic literacy pedagogy (pp. 51-73). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Cao, F. (2021). A comparative study of lexical bundles across paradigms and disciplines, Corpora, 16 (1), pp. 97-128.
  • Cao F. (2021) Chinese ethnolinguistic influences on academic English as a Lingua Franca. In Ye Z. (eds) The Palgrave handbook of Chinese language studies. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi-org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/10.1007/978-981-13-6844-8_55-2

Selected Presentations (since 2019)

  • Cao, F. (August 14-16, 2024) Lexical and phraseological development in postgraduate academic writing: A longitudinal study. AILA 2024 World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Cao, F. (December 7, 2023,). Does AI-generated writing differ from human writing in style? A literature survey [Lightning talk]. Higher Education Campus Conference (HECC) 2023, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  • Cao, F. (December, 2019). The use of lexical bundles across disciplines and paradigms, PAPER PRESENTED AT 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference, Singapore.
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