Current Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Citizenship: China

EDUCATION
PhD in Linguistics       The University of Sydney, Australia (July 2009; Supervisor: Professor J.R. Martin) ; Sun Yat-sen University, China (June 2009;
                                    Supervisor: Professor Guowen Huang) 
BA in English Language and Literature       Sun Yat-sen University, China (June 2004; Supervisor: Professor Guowen Huang)

WORK EXPERIENCE
01/2013-                     Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
08/2009-12/2012        Lecturer and Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Chinese as a Second Language, Sun Yat-sen University

PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Chen, Y.M. & Huang, G.W. On the readability of original literary work and simplified versions: A grammatical metaphor perspective. Foreign
Language Teaching and Research (CSSCI, Rank A journal in linguistics), 2014, 46 (6).
2. Chen, Y.M. Exploring the attitudinal variations in the Chinese English-language press on the 2013 air pollution incident. Discourse &
Communication (SSCI) 2014, 8 (4).
3. Chen, Y.M. Reflections on China’s first collection of terracotta acrobats. Visual Communication (SSCI). 2013, 12 (4).
4. Chen, Y.M. Exploring dialogic engagement with readers in multimodal EFL textbooks in China. Visual Communication (SSCI) 2010, 9 (4). 
5. Chen, Y.M. The semiotic construal of attitudinal curriculum goals: Evidence from EFL textbooks in China. Linguistics and Education, 2010, 21(1).
6. Chen, Y.M. A review on discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction, Discourse and Society (SSCI), 2012, 23 (4).
7. Chen, Y.M. A review on Spanish in New York: Language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity, Language in Society (SSCI), 2012, 41
     (5).
8. Chen, Y.M. Multimodality in practice: Investigating theory-in-practice through methodology, Discourse and Society (SSCI), 2013, 24 (2).
9. A contrastive study of engagement strategies in English and Chinese culture textbooks, Foreign Languages in China (CSSCI), 2013, 10 (4).
10. Chen, Y.M. A contrastive study of the attitudinal resources in Chinese culture textbooks aimed at foreign learners, Language Teaching and
     Linguistic Studies (CSSCI) 2010 (6).
11. Chen, Y.M. A review of multimodality and genre: A foundation for the systematic analysis of multimodal documents, Contemporary Linguistics
     (CSSCI) 2010 (3).
12. Chen, Y.M. Modality analysis of multimodal EFL pedagogic discourse, Foreign Language Education ( CSSCI) 2010 (1).
13. Chen, Y.M. and Huang, G.W. Multimodal construal of heteroglossia: Evidence from language textbooks , Computer-assisted Foreign Language
     Education in China (CSSCI) 2009 (6).
14. Chen, Y.M. and Qin, X.Y. Heteroglossic harmony: Engagement resources in multimodal EFL textbook discourse, Foreign Languages and Their
      Teaching (CSSCI) 2007 (12).
15. Chen, Y.M. and Huang, G.W. James R. Martin’s discourse studies, Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies 2010 (10).

BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Chen, Y.M. Contestable reality: A multi-level view on modality in multimodal pedagogic context. In Appliable Linguistics. London: Continuum, 2010. 
2. Chen, Y.M. and Huang, G.W. Introduction to The Collected Works of James R. Martin Vol. 5 Discourse Analysis, Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaotong
      University Press, 2012.

BOOKS
1. Chang, C.G. and Chen, Y.M. Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press , 2011. 

RESEARCH FUNDING
1. “A functional comparative study of the English/ Chinese original literary works and their simplified versions”, Project Sponsored by The National
Social Science Fund of China, 2015-2018.
2. “Multimodal construction of interpersonal meaning in pedagogic discourse: A contrastive study of English and Chinese pedagogic contexts”,
Humanities and Social Science Research Project Funded by Ministry of Education, China , 2011.9-2014.9.
3. “A social semiotic view on genre and multimodality in language textbooks”, Project Sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the
Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education, China, 2010.12-2011.12.
4. “Multimodal construction of interpersonal meaning in pedagogic discourse”, Research Project Supported by China Postdoctoral Science
Foundation, 2010.6-2011.7.
5. “Multimodal configuration and its effects in language teaching for specific purposes”, Research Project Supported by the Fundamental
Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2012.5-2015.5.
6. “Attitude and genre of culture textbooks”, Project Supported by Sun Yat-sen University Research Foundation, 2009.11-2011.11.
7.  “New trends in systemic functional multimodal studies”, Subproject of 985 Research Project, 2010.7-2013.7.
8.  “Analysis of culture textbooks in languages other than Chinese”, Research Project Supported by Base for International Chinese Teaching
Materials Developing and Teacher Training , 2009.11-2010.12.

TEACHING
      Postgraduate courses: postgraduate English, contemporary linguistics, applied linguistics 
      Undergraduate courses: English listening comprehension, advanced English, English as the second foreign language, reading comprehension
      Courses for international students: Chinese reading comprehension, Chinese listening comprehension

HONORS AND AWARDS
      • 2012.9      Provincial research personnel fostered by Guangdong Province in the “Thousand-Hundred-Ten” Program 
      • 2007         Second prize paper of the National Conference of Functional Linguistics