Feng Cao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Feng Cao is involved.
Articles
2025 Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups: A comparison among L1 Chinese, L2 English and L1 English research articles International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:3, pp. 316–351 | Article
Although English has become a lingua franca for academic publication, a growing number of multilingual scholars prefer to publish in both English and their first languages. This corpus-based study investigates how Chinese scholars in applied linguistics deploy interactive metadiscourse in their… read more
2014 Interactional metadiscourse in young EFL learner writing: A corpus-based study International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:2, pp. 201–224 | Article
This study investigates how young English as a foreign language (EFL) learners from Chinese, Spanish, and Polish mother tongue backgrounds use interactional metadiscourse in descriptive and argumentative English essays by drawing data from the ICCI corpus. The quantitative and qualitative analyses… read more