About

Xiaoyun is a Ph.D. candidate studying Applied Linguistics at the University of Alberta. She is interested in how multimodal resources are used in talk-in-interaction. Her dissertation topic is teachers’ syntactically incomplete utterances in second language classrooms.

Research Interests

Interactional linguistics

Conversation analysis

Multimodal analysis

Classroom discourse

Second language pedagogy

Current Projects

Teachers’ syntactically incomplete utterances in second language classrooms

Teacher’s head and eyebrow movements as repair initiation in second language classrooms

Front-loading actions: On right-dislocated VP in Mandarin conversation

Choral response as a participation management strategy in larger classroom settings

Recent Publications

2020

Wang, Xiaoyun. (2020). "Managing a suspended course of action A multimodal study of suoyi ‘so’-prefaced utterances in Mandarin conversation", Chinese Language and Discourse, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 306-334. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.20011.wan

Selected Presentations

2019

Wang, Xiaoyun. (2019). “The Interactional Functions of Teacher-initiated Teasing in Second Language Classrooms.” Mediums of Discourse Exchange. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB, Canada. Oct., 2019.

Wang, Xiaoyun, Li, Xiaoting. (2019). “Managing non-contiguities with Suoyi ‘so’ in Mandarin Conversation.” The 16^th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA-2019). Hong Kong. Jun., 2019.

2018

Wang, Xiaoyun. (2019). “Suoyi ‘so’ Prefacing the Display of Understanding in Mandarin Conversation.” The 4^thInternational Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA4). Albany, NY, USA. Nov., 2018.

Wang, Xiaoyun, Li, Xiaoting. (2019). Suoyi ‘so’ as a Device for Continuation and Resumption in Mandarin Conversation.” The 5^th International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-2018), Loughborough, UK. Jun., 2018.