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Wan Wan is Associate Professor of English at the College of Foreign Languages, Huaqiao University. Her main teaching responsibilities lie in EFL writing, Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and MA supervision for students working in the areas of metaphor analysis in educational discourse, language learners’ and teachers’ beliefs, college mentoring and academic literacy. She was awarded "Distinguished Young Scholars in Higher Education of Fujian Province".
Her current research interests are Multimodal metaphor in discourse analysis, Metaphor analysis in vocational mentoring & career planning, Metaphor in relation to belief formation and change, AI & Academic Literacy and Teacher education.
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2008–2013 PhD in Language Education University of York, UK
2006–2008 MA TESOL (Distinction) University of York, UK
2002–2006 BA in Business English (Distinction) Zhengzhou University
Principal Investigator
• 2018-2023 Metaphor to cultivate critical thinking in academic writing, funded by Foreign language teaching and research press, Beijing
• 2015-2021 Employing metaphor to examine reflective learning of ESL writing, funded by National Social Science Foundation of China
• 2014-2017 Metaphor and Reflective Writing, funded by Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education, China
• 2014-2018 Exploring reflective academic writing process through elicited metaphor-oriented intervention, funded by the Social Science Research Foundation of Fujian Province
• 2016-2020 Constructing learners’ writing knowledge through multimodal metaphor, funded by the Department of Education of Fujian Province
• 2013-2015 Developing critical thinking in academic writing through elicited metaphor-oriented activities, funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China
• 2013-2014 Developing theoretical framework of metaphor analysis in cognitive research on L2 writing, funded by Foundation for Distinguished Talents of Huaqiao University, China
• 2013-2014 Metaphorical conceptualisations of ESL students' writing at postgraduate level, funded by the Specialised fund of high-level publications in humanities and social science disciplines, Huaqiao University
Co-Investigator
• Usage-based approach to variation in metonymy, funded by Humanities and Social Sciences from Ministry of Education, China, PI: Weiwei Zhang (2015-2018)
• Skilled migration and global English: Language, development and the African professional (PI: Dr. Paul Roberts), funded by WUN (World Universities Network). The project aims to find out the extent to which the English language is an influencing factor in Skilled Migrants motivations, movements and success (2010-2011)
Selected Principal Research Publication
Books & chapters
• Wan, W., & Armstrong, S. L. (proposal submitted, under review). Multimodal Metaphor in Academic Literacy Research.
• Wan, W. (2022) Exploring the Use of Metaphor in Reflective Learning of Academic English Writing. Xiamen: Xiamen University Press.
• Wan, W. & G. Low (Eds.) (2015). Elicited metaphor analysis in Educational Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (ISBN 9789027202079)
• Wan, W. (2015). Developing critical thinking in academic writing through a metaphor elicitation technique. In W. Wan & G. Low (Eds.), Elicited metaphor analysis in educational discourse, 213-237.
Articles in Refereed Journals
• Wan, W., & Zhu, Y. H. (under review) Applying metaphor to university mentoring on career development
• Deng Y., Yang, J., &Wan. W (2021) Embodied metaphor in communication about lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China. PLoS ONE, 16(12): e0261968. (SCI, Q1)
• Wan, W., & Turner, S. (2018). Applying metaphor analysis to academic literacy research: A critical review over 30 years, Metaphor and the Social World, 8(2), 286-311. （SCI, Q4)
• Jing, Li, & Wan, W. (2018). The effect of teachers' comments types on students' revision in EFL writing classes. Journal of Xi'an International Studies University, 26(03):68-73 (CSSCI)
• Wan, W. (2014). Constructing and Developing ESL Students' Beliefs about Writing through Metaphor: A Longitudinal Exploratory Study. Journal of second language writing, 23, 53-73. (SSCI, Q1)
• Wan, W., Low, G., & Miao, L. (2011). From Students’ and Teachers’ Perspectives: Metaphorical Conceptualisations of EFL Teachers’ Roles. System 39(3), 403–415. (SSCI, Q1)
• Wan, W. (2011). An examination of the validity of metaphor analysis studies: Problems with metaphor elicitation techniques. Metaphor and the Social World, 1(2), 262–288.
Conference papers
• Elicit and Run’ Metaphor Research to Develop Critical Thinking in Academic Writing. Paper presented at the 12thConference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, HK, June, 2018
• Constructing the Development of Learners’ Writing Knowledge through Elicited Written and Pictorial Metaphor. Paper presented at the 11th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, Berlin, 1-4 July, 2016
• What Metaphors and Gestures Reveal about the Development of ESL students’ Concepts for Writing. Paper presented at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Newcastle, UK. July 20-25, 2015
• Developing critical thinking in academic writing through elicited metaphor-oriented activities. Paper presented at the 7thInternational Conference on English Language Teaching, Nanjing University, 23-23 October, 2014
• Using metaphor to develop critical thinking in academic writing. Paper presented at the 10th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, University of Cagliari, Italy, 20-23 June, 2014
• Improving ESL students’ writing by discussing personal writing metaphors. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh, UK, 4-7 September, 2013
• Using metaphor analysis to uncover the development of Chinese postgraduate students’ conceptualisations of academic English writing in one-year Master’s degree programme. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor, Lancaster University, UK, 4-7 July, 2012
• Conceptualisations of EFL students’ academic writing. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Bristol, UK, 3 September, 2011
• Discussion of Personal Metaphors of Academic Writing. Paper presented at the Seminar organised by International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor, Almagro, Spain, 4-7 May 2011
• Construct and Develop EFL Students’ Writing through Metaphors. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 30 June, 2010.
EXPERT REVIEWER FOR PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Journal of Language, identity & Education
System
Metaphor and the Social World
Classroom Discourse
Teaching and Teacher Education
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member, British Association for Applied Linguistics
Member, International Association of Applied Linguistics
Member, International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor
FINISHED THREE-YEAR MASTER STUDENTS (BY RESEARCH)
Qiwen Dan—MA 2024 entitled “Exploring A Native English Teacher’s Use of Metaphors in Gestures and Speeches in Chinese Primary EFL Classroom”
Yanhua Zhu—MA 2024 entitled “Researching Metaphors in University Career Mentoring”
Sijie Zheng—MA 2023 entitled “Researching Conceptual Metaphor in COVID-19 Microblogging Discourse”
YuKun Liang—MA 2023 entitled “Researching Multimodal Metaphors in COVID-19 Related Public Service Advertisements”
Zhaoyang Liu—MA 2022 entitled “Exploring Preschool Teachers’ Roles through Multimodal Metaphors”
Dan Zeng—MA 2020 entitled “Metaphorical Self-conceptualizations of English Teacher’s Role in a Chinese Senior High School”
• MA Applied Linguistics
• MA Research Methods in Social Science
• MA Cognitive Linguistics
• MA Consecutive Interpreting
• Bsc Research Methods in Management and International Business
• BA Academic English Writing
• BA/MA Cross-cultural Communication and Translation
• BA Introduction to Linguistics
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