YANG Mei is a professor of applied linguistics at South China University of Technology, once seconded as the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at Lancaster University in the UK. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, University of Hawaii, and Pennsylvania State University in the United States. She serves as a member of the Professional Committee of Second Language Acquisition Research in China, an expert in the evaluation and finalization of projects for the National Social Science Fund, a reviewer and disciplinary editor for multiple linguistic journals in China. She has published over 40 academic papers in authoritative journals such as Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Modern Foreign Languages, Chinese Teaching in the World, Chinese Learning, and the Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics. She has published a book titled Second Language Acquisition Research on English Articles from the Perspective of Language Emergence by Science Press; edited the textbook titled Continuation Writing in English; participated in the edition of multiple textbooks. Her research directions include second language acquisition, foreign language teaching, and international Chinese education. Her current research interests include the xu-based foreign language teaching theory construction and application research, the development and assessment of second language interaction competence, the xu-based international Chinese education research, and bidirectional comparative research on Chinese-English determiner structures.
1991-1995 Nankai University: Bachelor of Arts in English
2002-2005 Guizhou University: Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics
2006-2009 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: PhD in Applied Linguistics
Second language acquisition; foreign language education; psycholinguistics
Second language acquisition; English writing; An introduction to linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Research methods