Zhen Chen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhen Chen is involved.

Article

Chen, Zhen and Zhengrui Han 2026 Telling an expressive narrative in a foreign language: Analysis of Chinese JFL learners’ evaluative strategies in oral narrative discourse Narrative Inquiry 36:1, pp. 91–110 | Article

This study explores the discourse expressivity of Chinese JFL (Japanese as a foreign language) learners’ Japanese narratives in terms of the variety and use of evaluative strategies, and analyzes how the evaluation system in their first language (L1) may be evident in their second language (L2)… read more