——Name：Cao Jiazhen
——Current Position：lecturer
——Email：jiazhen.cao@hainan-biuh.edu.cn
——Course Delivered：German
——Educational background:
| 2002. 04 — 2008. 04 | Magister of German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache)
and Linguistics (Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Leipzig University |
| 2014. 10 — 2020. 01 | Ph.D. in Linguistics, Saarland University,
Dissertation: ” Raumreferenz im frühkindlichen Zweitspracherwerb – Eine longitudinale Untersuchung bei Kindern mit L1 Chinesisch und L2 Deutsch” |
——Former Positions：Teacher and supervisor for master’s students at the German Department, School of Foreign Languages, Xiangtan University.
——Teaching Experiences：
| 2008 – Present: | Teacher at the German Department, School of Foreign Languages, Xiangtan University. Served successively as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and supervisor for master’s students. |
Principal Investigator
| 2021-2024 | Excellent Youth Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education | Study on the Acquisition of German Prepositional Phrases by Second Language Children (In Progress) |
| 2021-2024 | Education and Teaching Research Project of the Teaching Guidance Sub-committee for German Language Teaching of the Higher Education Foreign Language and Literature Majors Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education | Exploration and Practice of Blended Learning Model in “Basic German” Course (In Progress) |
| 2019-2022 | Hunan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project | Comparative Study of Spatial Expressions in German and Chinese (In Progress) |
| 2019-2022 | Ministry of Education Industry-Academia Cooperation Collaborative Education Project | Construction of the “Basic German” Course Based on Online Teaching Platforms (Project Completion Pending) |
| 2019-2021 | Research Project on Teaching Reform in Hunan Province’s Regular Higher Education Institutions | Exploration and Practice of German Major Development under the Background of the “Double Ten Thousand Plan” (Excellent Project Completion) |
| 2010-2013 | Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education | Analysis of Politeness Expressions in Intercultural Communication from the Perspective of Prosody: A Comparative Study of Chinese and German Prosody (Project Completion) |
——Research Achievements：Second language acquisition, children´s language cognition and development
——Awards Experience：
| 2020.10 | Honored with a commendation from Xiangtan University for outstanding performance in various tasks. |
| 2020.09 | Guiding students in innovation and entrepreneurship, awarded the “Hunan Province University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program” in 2020. |
| 2014. 05 | Granted the qualification for the National Scholarship for Studying Abroad by the China Scholarship Council, pursued a doctoral degree at Saarland University in Germany. |
| 2013. 12 | Received the third prize in the 2013 “Wen-Li Cup” Young Teachers’ Lecture Competition at the School of Foreign Languages, Xiangtan University. |
| 2012. 03 | Awarded the third prize in the Third Young Teachers’ Lecture Competition at the School of Foreign Languages, Xiangtan University. |
| 2009. 03 | Awarded as an Outstanding Participant in Pre-Service Training for Teachers in Higher Education Institutions in Hunan Province. |
——Published works:
| Cao, Jiazhen (2024): A Longitudinal Study on the Transfer of Chinese Native Language in Children’s Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Studies. 48-65. （CSSCI collected journals） |
| Cao, Jiazhen (2023): Prosody influence on (im)politeness perception in Chinese-German intercultural communication. Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture. (SSCI, A&HCI)
Cao, Jiazhen (2023): Issues and Reconstruction of the Mechanism for First-Class Undergraduate Program Construction in Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study of Foreign Language Major, Journal of Multimedia and Network Teaching in China. 105-108. |
| Cao, Jiazhen & Roland Nenno (2022): Kritische Reflexion von Elizitationsverfahren zum Ausdruck lokaler Verhaeltnisse bei Kindern mit Deutsch als L2. In: LI Yuan, LIU Fang, WANG Zhongxin (Hrsg.): Didactica cultura lingua Perspektiven des Deutschen. iudicium |
| Cao, Jiazhen (2020): Raumreferenz im frühkindlichen Zweizspracherwerb. Eine longitudinale Untersuchung bei Kindern mit L1 Chinesisch und L2 Deutsch. [Dissertation] |
| Cao, Jiazhen (2019): Raumreferenz im frühkindlichen Zweitspracherwerb – Darstellung von methodischen Zugängen einer longituinalen Untersuchung. In: Kreft, A. &Hasenzahl, M. (Hrsg.) Aktuelle Tendenzen in der Fremdsprachendidaktik. Peter Lang, 81-96. |
| Cao, Jiazhen (2019): Übergeneralisierung ist „in“ – Zum Erwerb lokaler Präpositionen im Deutschen durch Kinder mit L1 Chinesisch. In: Wowro, I. & Jakosz, M. & Gladysz, J. (Hg.) Geöffnetes Zeitfenster nutzen! Frühes Fremdsprachenlernen – Zwischen Theorie und Praxis. V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen, 301-322. |
| Cao, Jiazhen (2015): Tonal Elements in Politeness, Contemporary Educational Theory and Practice. |
| Cao, Jiazhen (2010): Preliminary Exploration of German Phonological Assimilation Phenomena Contemporary Educational Theory and Practice. |
