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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)

Dr. CAO Feng, who holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, has extensive experience teaching language and communication courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As a dedicated teacher practitioner, he applies evidence-based approaches in language education. Beyond his teaching responsibilities, he has conducted short-term consultancy courses and workshops aimed at enhancing the writing skills of NUS research students. His research interests encompass Language Teaching and Learning, as well as Higher Education, areas where he is passionate about contributing new insights. In addition to his research and scholarly writing, he actively serves the academic community as a manuscript reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • ES5001A Graduate English II
  • 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)

  • Cao, F. & Hu, G. (forthcoming). English for Academic Purposes. In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.). International Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
  • 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), 97-128. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2021.0210
  • 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., Lee, M. C., Mattar, N. & Norhayati, I. (December 3, 2024). The efficacy of instructional practice and support on student engagement and wellbeing in blended learning [Paper presentation]. Higher Education Conference in Singapore (HECS) 2024, National University of Singapore.
  • Cao, F. (August 14-16, 2024) Lexical and phraseological development in postgraduate academic writing: A longitudinal study. AILA2024 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.
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