Tina Song's Website

Song, T., & Reynolds, B.L. (2022). The effect of lexical coverage on L2 learners’ reading comprehension of narrative and expository genres. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 59, 1-16. doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2022.101154 (SSCI 2021 IF 2.811 5-Year IF 3.229 Q1 Linguistics 29/194)

Song, T., & Reynolds, B.L. (2022). The effects of lexical coverage and topic familiarity on the comprehension of L2 expository texts. TESOL Quarterly, 56(2), 763-774. doi:10.1002/tesq.3100 (SSCI 2021 IF 3.410 5-Year IF 4.500 Q1 Linguistics 20/194)

Reynolds, B.L., & Song, T. (2020). Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts, Feng Teng, Lixun Wang. Bloomsbury, London (2020). xiii + 182 pp. [Review of the book Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts, by F. Teng & L. Wang]. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 94, 1-3. doi:10.1016/j.system.2020.102322 (SSCI 2020 IF 3.167 5-Year IF 3.34 Q1 Linguistics 15/193)

Song, T. A reader response to Kaivanpanah and Miri’s (2017) “The Effects of Task Type on the Quality of Resolving Language-Related Episodes and Vocabulary Learning”. TESOL J. 2022; 13:e604. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.604

BOOKS:

Song, T. (2025) Research on Big Data-Driven English TranslationTeaching, Jilin Publication Group (National First-Class Publisher), China.

Song, T. (2025) Otolith Atlas of Reef Fishes in the South China Sea (Translated Book), Frontier Scientific Publishing Pte. Ltd.， Singapore.

Relevant Skills Trainings

Research

August-2022. Taiwan Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School, Taiwan Joint Research Center for Systemic Linguistics and Human Complex Systems
September-2021. EEG Training (Curry 8), Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau
August-2021. Online Training of Corpus-based Language Studies, Shanghai Jiaotong University
March-2021. fMRI Safety Training, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau
January-2021. Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau
December-2020. fMRI Compatible Eye-link Training, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau

Teaching

August-2022. How to use Zoom effectively in the classroom? Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement, University of Macau
August-2019. Teaching Assistant Training Workshop Series, Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement, University of Macau

Book Chapter

Song, T. & Reynolds, B.L. (2022). Breaking through Opacity and Idiomaticity: Teaching English Phrasal Verbs through Conceptual Metaphors. In Lopriore (Eds.), Transforming Practices for the English as A Foreign Language Classroom, TESOL International Association, USA

Current Research Project

The Multi-Year Research Grant, 09/2024-12/2026. The Effect of Lexical Coverage on L2 Learners' Reading Comprehension and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition. Principle Investigator. Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Project (Youth Fund), China, 2024-2026.

Conference Presentations

Song, T., & Reynolds, B.L. (2023, August 30). "The Effect of Contextual Richness of the L2 Learners' Processing and Incidental Acquisition of Nonliteral English Phrasal Verbs: An Eye-tracking Study". EUROSLA32. UK: University of Birmingham.

Song, T., & Reynolds, B.L. (2022, Nov. 19). "The Effect of Contextual Richness of the L2 Learners' Processing and Incidental Acquisition of Nonliteral English Phrasal Verbs: An Eye-tracking Study". The 3rd Macau Symposium on Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MSCBS 2022). Macau: University of Macau.

Description: At this conference, I presented an eye-tracking study that gauged the relationship between the online processing of nonliteral English phrasal verbs under different levels of contexts and the incidental learning gains of these phrasal verbs. This presentation earned the "Best Presentation Award".

Song, T., & Reynolds, B.L. (2021, March 15). “How can I ensure my students stay in the Goldilocks zone of reading.” The 2021 MÆLT English Language Teaching Conference. Macau: Santa Rosa de Lima English Secondary School in Macau.

Description: At this conference, I presented how VocabProfile, an online vocabulary analysis program could be used by language teachers to examine the difficulty of textbook texts for their students in terms of word frequency.

Song, T., & Reynolds, B.L. (2019, April 12). Exploring EFL incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading expository texts: Text coverage and reading comprehension. The 72nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (KFLC) (54). Lexington, USA: University of Kentucky.

Description: At this conference, I presented some primary results from a pilot study exploring the effect of lexical coverage, the percentage of words known by readers in a given text, on second language learners’ reading comprehension of two types of genres: expository and narrative. The findings indicated that lexical coverage imposed a stronger effect on reading comprehension.

Song, T. (2015, Dec. 8). The Role of Chinese EFL Learners’ Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge in the Lexical Inference Strategy: A Think-aloud Case Study 2015. The 8th International Conference on English Language Teaching in China: English Language Teaching in a Global World (8). Xi’an, China: Xi’an International Studies University.

Description: At this conference, I presented the results of this study which showed that compared with high-proficiency L2 learners, low achievers were found to use more lexical inferencing strategies with lower rates of successful guesses.