Name: Cheng, Ying-Hsueh
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chung Cheng University
Degrees: Ph.D., The Ohio State University, USA
Contact: sherrycheng85@gmail.com
Interest of research: Second language writing, Corpus linguistics for English teaching, Vocabulary instruction and research, Ggraduate students’ online searching behaviors
 
 
English Journal Papers
1. Cheng, Y.-H. (2023). Exploring the effects of tool-assisted paraphrasing strategy instruction on EFL learners’ paraphrasing performance. Educational Technology & Society,26(4). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C2W8uhB7Gnm-BkcUOaGY-faWoJj5XW_w/view
2. Cheng, Y.-H. (2022). E-portfolios in EFL writing: Benefits and challenges. Language Education and Assessment, 5(1), 52-69. https://castledown.online/journals/LEA/
3. Cheng, Y.-H. (2021). EFL college students’ concordancing for error correction. English Teaching & Learning Journal. (Scopus; ESCI; THCI). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42321-021-00075-5.pdf
4. Cheng*, Y.-H. & Vo, D. A. U. (2020). Needs analysis of Vietnamese Daikin engineers in their workplace: A preliminary study. Taiwan International ESP Journal, 11(2), 54-70.
5. Cheng, Y.-H., Tsai*, C.-C., & Liang, J.-C. (2019). Academic hardiness and academic self-efficacy in graduate studies. Higher Education Research & Development, 38(7), 901-921. (SSCI).
6. Lo, Y. G., & Cheng*, Y.-H. (2018). Contested or complementary? Mingling between two distinct writing pedagogies for genre instruction in one EFL undergraduate writing course. Journal of Writing and Pedagogy, 10(1-2), 31-60.
7. Cheng, Y.-H., & Tsai, C. C. (2017). Online research behaviors of engineering graduate students in Taiwan. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(1), 169–179. (SSCI)
8. Hsin, C. T., Cheng, Y.-H., & Tsai, C. C. (2016). Searching and sourcing online academic literature: Comparisons of doctoral students and junior faculty in education. Journal of Online Information Review, 40(7), 979-997. (SSCI)
9. Cheng, Y.-H. (2014). Dissertation grant proposals as “writing games”: An exploratory study of two L2 graduate students’ experiences. English for Specific Purposes, 36, 74-84. (SSCI)
10. Cheng, Y.-H., & Good, R. L. (2009). L1 glosses: Effects on EFL learners’ reading comprehension and vocabulary retention. Reading in a Foreign Language, 21(2), 119-142. Available from: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2009/articles/cheng.pdf [ISSN 1539-0578]
 
English Conference Papers
1. Cheng, Y.-H. (April 16-17, 2021). Incorporating concordancing into paraphrasing instruction. Paper will be presented at the International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ALLT), Taipei.
2. Cheng, Y.-H. (September 26-27, 2020). Corpus tools for error correction: How useful can they be? Paper will be presented at the 3rd Conference on English Language Education in the Chinese Context, Taipei.
3. Vo, D. A. U. & Cheng, Y.-H. (October 16-17, 2020). Needs analysis of Vietnamese Daikin engineers in their workplace: A preliminary study. Paper will be present at the 2020 TESPA International Conference on English for Specific Purposes, Taipei.
4. Cheng, Y.-H. (May 17, 2019). Implementing task-based learning in an escort interpreting course. Paper presented at the 36th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning. Tunghai University, Taiwan.
5. Yang, J.-E. & Cheng, Y.-H. (May 17, 2019). A corpus-based study of hedging devices about epistemic modality markers used in online newspaper editorials. Poster presented at The 36th International Conference on English Language Teaching and Learning, Tunghai University.
6. Cheng, Y.-H. (March 12, 2019). Training L2 writers to correct errors with corpus tools. Paper presented at the 54th RELC International Conference and 5th Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association Conference. Singapore.
7. Cheng, Y.-H., & Liu, Y. C. (November 2018). Digital storytelling for EFL university students. Proceedings of 2018 International Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 687-689). Poster presented in Manila, Philippines.
8. Liu, Y. C., & Cheng, Y.-H. (November 2018). Integrating the online collaborative tool into oral training. Proceedings of 2018 International Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 690-692). Poster presented in Manila, Philippines.
9. Cheng, Y.-H., & Feng, H. H. (August 2018). Effects and preferences for using corpus tools for correcting errors. Paper presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW), Vancouver, Canada.
10. Lo, Y. G., & Cheng, Y.-H. (August 2018). Do English patterns matter in writing? Divergent perspectives from EFL learners and ESL teachers. Paper presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW), Vancouver, Canada.
11. Cheng, Y. H. (2017). Integrating TED Talks into EFL Listening and Speaking—A Blended Course Project. Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning (ETRA), National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology.
12. Cheng, Y. H. (2015). What happens when Facebook meets TEDxTalk in an English listening and speaking classroom? Paper presented at the Taiwan E-learning Forum (TWELF), Kaohsiung.
13. Feng, H. H., & Cheng, Y. H. (2014). Enhancing English pronunciation with Windows Speech Recognition training: A preliminary study. Paper presented at the 2014 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Nara, Japan.
14. Cheng, Y. H., & Tsai, C. C. (2014). Engineering graduate students' literature searching behaviors. Paper presented at the 2014 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Nara, Japan.
15. Feng, H. H., & Cheng, Y. H. (2013). Promoting second language writers' error corrections with corpus. Paper presented at the 2013 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Bali, Indonesia.
16. Cheng, Y. H., & Nespor, J. (2013). Playing writing games from PhD curriculum to the dissertation. Paper accepted by the 2013 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, California.
17. Cheng, Y. H. (2013). Linguistic co-membership and disciplinary enculturation. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Dallas, Texas.
18. Wells, G., Haneda, M., & Cheng, Y. H. (2013). Challenges in managing authority and equality in instructional conversation. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Dallas, Texas.
19. Cheng, Y. H. (2012). What happens when Chinese-speaking students work with their Chinese-speaking advisors in a US university? Paper presented at the 31st Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) —Building Bridges between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
20. Cheng, Y. H. (2012). A case study of three Chinese-speaking PhD students' transitions from course work to dissertation in a US university. Paper presented at the 11th Symposium on Second Language Writing at Purdue University (SSLW), West Lafayette, Indiana.
21. Cheng, Y. H. (2012). “Who read the proposal before I did?”: A case study of a dissertation grant proposal writing process. Paper presented at the 7th Intercultural Rhetoric & Discourse Conference at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana.
22. Cheng, Y. H. (2011). Multilingual students’ disciplinary literacy practices in the master’s level. Paper presented at the 30th Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Ames, Iowa State University.
23. Nespor, J., Haneda, M., Cheng, Y. H., & Mizuno, M. (2011). Contests of discourses: Policy, social movements, and public narratives of immigration and ESL teaching. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, Louisiana.
24. Nespor, J., Haneda, M., Mizuno, M., & Cheng, Y. H. (2011). Re-imagining teaching: Occupational identity and the construction of practice among ESL teachers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, Louisiana.
25. Cheng, Y. H. (2011). Learning over time: Co-construction of idiomatic meanings in a multicultural ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, Illinois.
26. Cheng, Y. H. (2010). Contexts for learning: Co-construction of idiomatic meanings in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Discourse Analysis and Educational Research Conference, Columbus, Ohio.
27. Cheng, Y. H., Liu, Y-H, & Saunders, Jr. C. T. (2010). Foreign language anxieties and attitudes: A case study of Chinese-speaking international students’ learning experiences in American classrooms. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL), Atlanta, Georgia.
28. Cheng, Y. H., Liu, Y-H, & Saunders, Jr. C. T. (2010). Chinese international students’ anxieties and attitudes concerning language barriers to learning in American classrooms. Paper presented at the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
29. Cheng, Y. H. (2010). Self-reports of four native and nonnative doctoral students’ English reading experiences. Paper presented at the 2010 Academic Literacies Symposium, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
30. Cheng, Y. H. (2009). Online learning course sites for a Chinese intermediate class. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education (pp. 119-129). Taipei, Taiwan. 國立台灣師範大學 全球華文網路教育研討會
31. Cheng, Y. H., & Wang, C. C. (2008). Project-based learning: Using photo story to broadcast Penghu islands. Paper presented at the 2nd National Conference on College English, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. 國立政治大學 大學英文學術研討會
32. Cheng, Y. H., & Wang, C. C. (2008). Stimulating motivation through project-based learning. Selected Papers from the 17th International Symposium & Book Fair on English Teaching (pp. 294-305). Taipei, Taiwan. 中華民國英語文教學國際研討會暨書展 [ISBN 978-986-147-237-9]
33. Cheng, Y. H., & Good, R. L. (2007). Effectiveness of using vocabulary glosses to enhance technological university business and engineering majors’ EFL reading comprehension and vocabulary learning. The Proceedings of Taiwan TESOL Conference, (pp. 28-42). Taipei: Taiwan ELT Publishing. 國立虎尾科技大學應用外語系 台灣英語教學學術研討會 [ISBN 986-80780-3]
 
English Book and Book Chapters
1. Cheng, Y. H. (Jun 2013). Candidacy examinations and dissertation grant proposals as “writing games”: Two case studies of Chinese-speaking doctoral students’ writing experiences. Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University, USA.
2. Cheng, Y. H. (Jun 2005). Effectiveness of using vocabulary glosses to enhance technological university business and engineering majors’ EFL reading comprehension and vocabulary learning. Master’s thesis, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology.
 
Project-PI
1. 107學年度 科技部專題研究計畫(鼓勵女性從事科學及技術研究專案計畫)--大學英語系學生使用線上語料庫和字典改錯之英語寫作課室研究 (College English Majors’ Use of Online Corpora and Dictionaries for Error Corrections in an EFL Writing Course; MOST 107-2635-H-194-001-)
2. 109學年度 科技部專題研究計畫--探討將字詞檢索融入大學英文改寫教學的影響 (Investigating Effects of Incorporating Concordancing in Paraphrasing Instruction for University Students; MOST 109-2410-H-194-098 -)
3. 109學年度 科技部大專學生研究計畫--非英語為母語外籍學生在台求學之語言社會化經驗 (指導學生:陳宜婕) (MOST 109-2813-C-194-036-H)
4. 110年 科技部人文社會科學研究中心 補助青年學者暨跨領域研究學術輔導與諮詢 (薪傳學者︰葉惠菁特聘教授/雲林科技大學應用外語系)
5. 110年教育部實踐計畫 計畫名稱:「以Wix做為多模態歷程檔案於英語寫作課之成效及影響」
 
Academic Services
1. Reviewer, English Teaching and Learning
2. Reviewer, Taiwan International ESP Journal
3. Reviewer, Taiwan Journal of TESOL
4. Reviewer, International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE)
5. Reviewer, Online Information Review
6. Reviewer, Educational Technology & Society
7. Reviewer, International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
8. Reviewer, Sage Open
9. Reviewer, Computers and Education
10. Reviewer, System Journal
11. Reviewer, The Asia Pacific Education Researcher
12. Reviewer, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
13. Reviewer, National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research
14. Reviewer, Reading in a Foreign Language Journal
15. Reviewer, Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education