Meixiu Zhang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Meixiu Zhang is involved.

Title

L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts

Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang

This book is the first edited volume to compile up-to-date scholarship that discusses frontier knowledge on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) and highlights technology-mediated solutions to it. The volume consists of conceptual papers and empirical studies that explore theoretical,… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] 2023. vii, 253 pp.

Crawford, William J. and Meixiu Zhang 2025 Describing and interpreting task performance using a register functional approach TASK 5:1, pp. 115–143 | Article

This paper illustrates how the description of tasks and task performances can benefit from a methodological and interpretative framework called the Register Functional (RF) approach. The paper first discusses research goals, conceptions of context and linguistic interpretation of task… read more

Li, Mimi and Meixiu Zhang 2023 Introduction L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts, Li, Mimi and Meixiu Zhang (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter

Zhang, Meixiu and Mimi Li 2023 Chapter 3. Collaborative writing in face-to-face and computer-mediated L2 settings: A methodological perspective L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts, Li, Mimi and Meixiu Zhang (eds.), pp. 53–77 | Chapter

In this chapter, we synthesize the methodological approaches, research techniques, analytic frameworks, and research practices in existing collaborative writing (CW) empirical research. We start with an overview of both the predominant and emerging research techniques in existing CW literature,… read more

Crawford, William J. and Meixiu Zhang 2021 How can register analysis inform task-based language teaching? Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 180–206 | Article

For over 30 years, corpus research on register variation has expanded our understanding of language use by illustrating how linguistic features co-occur and vary in different situations of use (Biber & Conrad 2019). Over the same period, Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has provided a… read more

Biber, Douglas, Jesse Egbert and Meixiu Zhang 2018 Lexis and grammar as complementary discourse systems for expressing stance and evaluation The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Chapter

Although ‘stance’ and ‘evaluation’ are closely related theoretical constructs, stance is normally investigated through corpus-based methods focusing on the use of lexico-grammatical features, while evaluative language, being regarded as more context-dependent, has been investigated through the use… read more