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Cao Feng

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

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.

Selected Publications (since 2019)

  • 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.
  • Gong, H., Liu, L. L., & Cao, F. (2021). A cross-linguistic study of interactional metadiscourse in English and Chinese RAs by the same Chinese scholars, Journal of Language, Identity & Education.
  • 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. (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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