Quantities and Qualities in Mandarin and English. Paper presented at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, July 15-20, 2007. Krakow, Poland.

Using Collins Cobuild Corpora as a Personal Resource for Solving Usage Problems. Paper presented at the Fall OHTESOL Conference, Nov. 14-15, 2003, Columbus, Ohio.

The Conceptualization of Activities, Processes, and Events as Nominals in Chinese. Paper presented at the Conference on Language, Culture and Cognition, July 16-18, 2003, Braga, Portugal.

Personification Metaphor in Chinese Syntax.  Paper presented at the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, July 10-16, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.

Review: Swales, John M., & Feak, Christine B., 2nd ed., Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and skills, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004. English for Specific Purposes 26, 257-260. (2007).

Container Metaphor in Chinese Syntax. In Proceedings of the 11th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (2000).

A Simplified Framework for English Article Usage for ESL Learners. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Youngstown State University, Ohio. 229-238. (1999).

Epistemological Optimism and the Teaching of ESL to Chinese. The Ohio TESOL Newsletter, 17, 8-9. (1993).

Received Faculty Incentive Grant for proposal titled: Using Collins Cobuild Corpora as a Personal Resource for Solving Word Usage Problems and for Creating a "Learner's Own" Lexicon. Sept. 2002.

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