Winfred Wenhui Xuan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Winfred Wenhui Xuan is involved.
Articles
2025 Writing to evaluate: A synthesis of appraisal studies at different levels of EAP writing Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:2, pp. 297–328 | Article
Evaluative language is crucial in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing, particularly in expressing authorial stance and supporting arguments. Among various linguistic frameworks, appraisal in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has been extensively used to map and assess evaluative… read more
2023 Understanding textual meaning-making in Chinese high school EFL learners’ writing: A systemic functional perspective Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students’ writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten… read more
2022 Applying systemic functional linguistics in translation studies: A research synthesis Babel 68:4, pp. 517–545 | Article
This paper takes a meta-analysis and synthesis approach to emphasize systemic functional linguistics’ contribution to translation studies. A coding book was designed to analyze 123 studies collected through email inquiry, database search, and manual examination. The paper reports on the… read more