Native Place: Jiangxi
Gender: Female
Highest Degree: Ph.D
Graduated from: College of Liberal Arts, Hunan Normal University
Professional Title: Associate Professor
Research Interests: Chinese-Foreign Language Contrast; Second Language Acquisition and Teaching; Modern Chinese Grammar
Courses Offered: General Modern Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Introduction to Second Language Acquisition, Chinese-Foreign Language Contrast, Modern Chinese Grammar，English-ChineseTranslation & Writing,Selected Topics on China（in English）
E-mail: zengxiaohong@xmu.edu.cn
Professional Experience
2004 – Present: Full-time Teacher, College of Overseas Education, Xiamen University
June 2010: Trained Chinese language teachers in Australia
November 2009: Conducted textbook training for Chinese language teachers in Indonesia
December 2008: Trained Chinese language teachers in the United Kingdom
November 2008: Trained Chinese language teachers in Spain
April 2007: Trained Chinese language teachers in the Philippines
May 2006: Trained Chinese language teachers in the Philippines
August 2001 – June 2002: Visiting Scholar & Instructor of Chinese Courses, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA
July 1997 – August 2001: College English Teacher & Full-time Teacher of Chinese as a Foreign Language, Department of Foreign Languages, Office of International Exchange, College of International Culture and Education, Guangxi Normal University
June 1993 – June 1995: English Teacher & Examination Administrator, Foreign Language Training Center & Foreign Language Test Center, Jiangxi Normal University
Publications
1993: Translated and edited Education in Japan in the 21st Century, Jiangxi Education Review, Issue 3
1997: Translated and edited American Education in the New Millennium, Jiangxi Education, Issue 2
2000: Co-translated and edited A History of Human Folly and Madness, Lijiang Publishing House
2004: Thematic Structure Analysis of Sentences like “gezi ai de buyao”, Import and Consult, Issue 5
2004: Examples of Game-based Chinese Vocabulary Teaching, Journal of Fuzhou Institute of Education, Issue 4
2004: Usage and Distinction between “Buguo” and “Bu + Guo”, Journal of Jishou University, Issue 2
2004: Semantic Network of the Verb “Guo” in Mandarin, Import and Consult, Issue 4
2004: On the Role of Students’ Native Language in TCFL, Journal of Yunnan Normal University (TCFL and Research) (2004 Supplement), Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching
2005: Applying Semantic Theories to Chinese Vocabulary Teaching in TCFL, Overseas Chinese Education, Issue 2
2006: On Reciprocal Verbs and Their Arguments in Chinese, Academic Perspective (Yearbook of Chinese Professors & Scholars Association, University of Southern California, USA), Volume 2
2006: Reflections on Chinese-English Translation Textbooks for TCFL, Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium on Language in Educational Textbooks, Xiamen University
2006: A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of the Motion Verb “Guo” in Modern Chinese, Anniversary Proceedings, College of Overseas Education, Xiamen University
2006: A Comparison of Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of English and Chinese Personal Pronouns, Anniversary Proceedings, College of Overseas Education, Xiamen University
2007: Learning Chinese: The Differences from English and Spanish Speakers – An Interesting Survey for Mandarin Consonants, Academic Perspective, 2007, Issue 3 (ISSN 1936-1246)
2007: Non-subject Sentences in Modern Chinese and Their Translation, Qusuo(magazine), Issue 7 (CN43-1008/C)
2008: A Multi-perspective Study of Individual Verbs in Modern Chinese — A Case Study of “Guo + Object”, Xiamen University Press, ISBN 978-7-5615-2832-7
2009: On the Strokes in Chinese Character Teaching As A Second Language, Academic Perspective, 2009, Issue 5 (ISSN 1936-1246)
October 2009: Semi-fixed Structures and Chinese Vocabulary Teaching in TCFL, National Symposium on International Chinese Language Education (Hosted by Research Center for TCFL, Beijing Language and Culture University)
April 2010: Second Language Acquisition Order and Teaching of Fixed Structures in TCFL, The 4th China Symposium on Second Language Acquisition Research
June 2012: Semi-fixed Structures and Chinese Vocabulary Teaching, Overseas Chinese Education
December 2010: Semi-fixed Patterns in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language, Academic Perspective, 2009, Issue 5 (ISSN 1936-1246)
May 2011: The Way of Learning Chinese, U.S. Social Science Publisher, ISBN 978-0-615-21413-9
June 2018: The Spread of Chinese Guqin in Japan, Overseas Chinese Education
March 2019: Three-element Analysis in TCFL Vocabulary Teaching, Journal of Pingxiang University
September 2019: A Survey and Analysis of Farewell Strategies Used by Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Learners, Overseas Chinese Education, 2019, Issue 5
June 2022: The System of Double Negative Structures in Modern Chinese, Overseas Chinese Education, 2022, Issue 6
August 2024: Rasch Model Analysis of the HSK Level 4 Listening Test: Evaluating Validity and Fairness, 2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Future Education (AIFE 2024), ISBN 979-8-4007-1065-0
December 2025: Driven by New Ideas and AI — Study on Register, Modalities and Teaching Innovation of Double Negative Structures in Modern Chinese, 2025 Exploration of Higher Education Teaching Practice: Xiamen University Solutions, Xiamen University Press
Research Projects
October 2002 – May 2004: Participated in the 973 Project Research on Thematic Structures of Chinese Verbs and Their Relations for Chinese Information Processing as a Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Linguistics, Peking University
February 2005 – June 2006: A Study of Subjective Quantity Adverbs in Modern Chinese, Horizontal Project, Principal Investigator, Completed
January 2006 – January 2007: Non-subject Sentence System in Modern Chinese and Its English Translation, University-level Project, Principal Investigator, Completed
January 2007 – November 2007: Research on Communication in Japan, International Cooperation Project, First Co-investigator, Completed
June 2008 – June 2010: Research on Chinese Character Teaching in TCFL, Horizontal Project, Principal Investigator, Completed
2018: Reform and Innovation of Accounting Courses in Sino-foreign Joint Education, Teaching Reform Project, Xiamen University, First Co-investigator, Completed
2019: History of Chinese Thought, Postgraduate “Ideological and Political Education in Courses” Model Program, Xiamen University, Participant
2020 – 2023: Research on International Chinese Education Testing Based on Multidimensional Item Response Theory (20BYY117), General Project of National Social Science Fund of China, First Co-investigator, Ongoing
2021 – Present: Collation and Research on British Chinese Linguistic Literature in the 19th Century (21YJA740028), Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Planning Fund, Participant, Ongoing
2022 – Present: A Multidimensional Contrastive Study of Chinese Copulas and Nominal Predicate Sentences (22BYY131), General Project of National Social Science Fund of China, Participant, Ongoing
2024: Selected Topics on China, “Ideological and Political Education in Courses” Model Program, Xiamen University, Participant
2024: Suggestions on International Chinese Education Promoting Cross-industrial Cooperation and Resource Integration in Xiamen, Research Project of China Association for Promoting Democracy Xiamen Municipal Committee, Completed
2025: Research on Teaching Reform of “Overview of China” for International Students, Postgraduate Teaching Reform Project, Xiamen University
