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Beihang University: Beijing, CN

2018-06-11 to present | Professor (School of Foreign Languages)
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Wei Ren

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: Guangzhou, Guangdong, CN

2014-05-26 to 2018-06-01 | Professor (Centre for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics)
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Wei Ren

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Bristol: Bristol, Bristol, GB

2008-09-27 to 2012-01-24 | Ph.D.
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Wei Ren

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2006-09-26 to 2007-10-13 | M.Phil (Centre for English and Applied Linguistics)
Education
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Wei Ren

Works (48)

Differences between Chinese and Western English-speaking teachers in providing disagreement in EFL teaching in China

Asia Pacific Journal of Education
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02188791.2024.2396398
Contributors: Jieqiong Ying; Gang Hong; Wei Ren
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The influences of proficiency and gender on Uyghur-Mandarin children’s advice-giving

Text & Talk
2025-01-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0155
Contributors: Yuchen Peng; Wei Ren; Ruilin Wu
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Collaborative Materials Design: How a School Teacher, a University Researcher, and a Professional Textbook Writer Interact

RELC Journal
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/00336882231157786
Contributors: Hao Xu; Wei Ren; Shulin Yu
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Sharing second stories in online comforting interactions

Discourse, Context & Media
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100835
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yufei Li
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Emotional labour in comforting strangers on social media

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
2024-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12590
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yufei Li
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Fostering self-regulated learning-focused feedback: Getting preservice teachers prepared

System
2024-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2024.103483
Contributors: Wei Ye; Wei Ren; Yanjiao Lian; Qiqi Zou
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Responses to refusal in online recruitment communication: A Chinese contextual study

Language & Communication
2024-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.002
Contributors: Wei Ren; Han Zhang
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Functions, sociocultural explanations and conversational influence of discourse markers: focus on zenme shuo ne in L2 Chinese

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
2024-11-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/iral-2022-0230
Contributors: Xi Chen; Wei Ren
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Ironic criticisms and responses on Chinese social media

Pragmatics & Cognition
2024-10-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/pc.00041.tia
Contributors: Xinyue Tian; Wei Ren
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Book review

Journal of Pragmatics
2024-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.03.012
Contributors: Yufei Li; Wei Ren
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Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups

Journal of Pragmatics
2024-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.03.015
Contributors: Wei Ren
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Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events

Pragmatics and Society
2024-03-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/ps.21095.wu
Contributors: Yiman Wu; Wei Ren; Yi Zhang
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L2 grit and pragmatic comprehension among Chinese postgraduate learners: Enjoyment and anxiety as mediators

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12489
Contributors: Yuqi Wang; Wei Ren
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Translanguaging in self-praise on Chinese social media

Applied Linguistics Review
2024-01-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2021-0169
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yaping Guo
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From hǎo to hǒu – stylising online communication with Chinese dialects

International Journal of Multilingualism
2024-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2022.2061981
Contributors: Yi Zhang; Wei Ren
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Toward a better understanding of skill integration in integrated writing: a structural equation modeling study of EFL secondary learners’ test performance

Reading and Writing
2023-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-023-10419-1
Contributors: Wei Ye; Wei Ren
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Small talk is not small: A commentary on pragmatics studies on small talk (postscript)

Acta Linguistica Academica
2023-12-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1556/2062.2023.00737
Contributors: Wei Ren
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Self‐praise on social media WeChat Moments in L1 and L2 Chinese

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12507
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yaping Guo
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Speech acts and interaction in L2 pragmatics: Insights from Chinese as the target language

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12510
Contributors: Wei Ren
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The roles of language mindsets and willingness to communicate in receptive pragmatic competence among Chinese EFL learners

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
2023-11-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2023.2284892
Contributors: Yuqi Wang; Wei Ren
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Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media

Language & Communication
2023-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.07.002
Contributors: Xiaoyi Bi; Wei Ren
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Address terms in social media requests

2023-09-06 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/tar.5.04ren
Contributors: Wei Ren; Saeko Fukushima
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The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
2023-08-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/iral-2023-0040
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yuchen Peng; Yiman Wu
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Effects of task complexity, task sequence, and interlocutor familiarity on Chinese EFL learners’ self-repair in synchronous online interaction

Language Teaching Research
2023-06-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/13621688231176066
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yiman Wu; Yuchen Peng
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Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging

The Modern Language Journal
2023-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/modl.12821
Contributors: Lili Qin; Xibei Ouyang; Wei Ren
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A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Second Language Pragmatics Instruction

Applied Linguistics
2023-01-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amac055
Contributors: Wei Ren; Shaofeng Li; Xiaoxuan Lü
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Book review

System
2022-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2022.102924
Contributors: Yaping Guo; Wei Ren
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Perception and evaluation of requests on social media in Chinese and Japanese

Language & Communication
2022-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.09.002
Contributors: Wei Ren; Saeko Fukushima
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Advanced learners’ responses to Chinese greetings in study abroad

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
2022-11-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/iral-2020-0150
Contributors: Jieqiong Ying; Wei Ren
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Book review

Journal of Pragmatics
2022-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.09.002
Contributors: Yaping Guo; Wei Ren
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Chinese young people’s attitudes towards translanguaging in self-praise on social media

Journal of Pragmatics
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.06.006
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yaping Guo; Li Wei
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The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals

Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
2022-07-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/prag.23.4.06ren
Contributors: Wei Ren
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The effects of proficiency and study-abroad on Chinese EFL learners’ refusals

The Language Learning Journal
2022-07-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09571736.2022.2088447
Contributors: Yuqi Wang; Wei Ren
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Educating L2 learners about collaborative writing: exploring the relationship between knowledge of collaborative writing and writing products

Language Awareness
2022-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2021.1969403
Contributors: Wenting Chen; Wei Ren
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‘This is so skrrrrr’ – creative translanguaging by Chinese micro-blogging users

International Journal of Multilingualism
2022-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2020.1753746
Contributors: Yi Zhang; Wei Ren
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What is “Versailles Literature”?: Humblebrags on Chinese social networking sites

Journal of Pragmatics
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.08.002
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yaping Guo
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Phatic communion in Chinese students’ gratitude emails in English

2021-10-27 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/pbns.328.05ren
Contributors: Wei Ren; Wenjie Liu
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Tracking the trajectories of international students’ pragmatic choices in studying abroad in China: a social network perspective

Language, Culture and Curriculum
2021-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2020.1857393
Contributors: Citing Li; Wendong Li; Wei Ren
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Variational pragmatics in Chinese social media requests: The influence of age and social status

Journal of Pragmatics
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.002
Contributors: Wenjie Liu; Lin Li; Wei Ren
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Digital Multimodal Composing in L2 Learning: Ideologies and Impact

Journal of Language, Identity & Education
2021-05-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/15348458.2020.1753192
Contributors: Lianjiang Jiang; Wei Ren
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Tracking the Evolution of Chinese Learners’ Multilingual Motivation Through a Longitudinal Q Methodology

The Modern Language Journal
2020-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/modl.12672
Contributors: YONGYAN ZHENG; XIUCHUAN LU; WEI REN
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Self-praise on Chinese social networking sites

Journal of Pragmatics
2020-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.09.009
Contributors: Wei Ren; Yaping Guo
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Analyzing interdiscursivity in legal genres

Pragmatics and Society
2020-11-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/ps.17030.han
Contributors: Wei Ren; Vijay K. Bhatia; Zhengrui Han
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Sociopragmatic competence in American and Chinese children’s realization of apology and refusal

Journal of Pragmatics
2020-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.04.013
Contributors: Yuh-Fang Chang; Wei Ren
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Jocular mockery in the context of a localised playful frame: Unpacking humour in a Chinese reality TV show

Journal of Pragmatics
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.04.006
Contributors: Na Yang; Wei Ren
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Pragmatic awareness and second language learning motivation

Pragmatics & Cognition
2019-12-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/pc.19022.yan
Contributors: He Yang; Wei Ren
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Intensification in online consumer reviews

2019-01-10 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/pbns.300.08ren
Contributors: Wei Ren
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Developing students’ awareness of Global Englishes

ELT Journal
2018-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccy012
Contributors: Fan (Gabriel) Fang; Wei Ren
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Peer review (40 reviews for 12 publications/grants)

Review activity for Ampersand. (4)
Review activity for Assessing writing. (2)
Review activity for Discourse, context & media. (2)
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Review activity for Humanities & social sciences communications. (1)
Review activity for Journal of pragmatics. (13)
Review activity for Journal of second language writing. (2)
Review activity for Language & communication. (1)
Review activity for Language sciences : (2)
Review activity for Learning and motivation. (2)
Review activity for Lingua. (2)
Review activity for System (7)
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