Lin Shen
- PhD Student
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Lin is a PhD student in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at University of Cambridge. Before beginning her doctoral studies in October 2024, she earned a master’s degree in Translation Studies from Beijing University of Foreign Studies (2021–2024) and a bachelor’s degree in Translation from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (2017–2021).
Lin is fascinated by translation and second language acquisition, and she enjoys analysing both translated texts and learner language from sociocultural and cognitive perspectives. More broadly, she is interested in how translation and L2 acquisition shape and reflect society, culture, and cognition. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies.
Student Member, European Society for Translation Studies
Student Member, Societas Linguistica Europaea
Student Member, British Association for Applied Linguistics
Student Member, Learner Corpus Association
Co-organizer, Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language group
Reviewer, Lingua
Reviewer, Wolfson Research Event 2025
Student Ambassador, Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Faculty Open Day
Certified Translator (CATTI). Awarded by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, China
Research
Lin’s PhD project focuses on constrained communication of motion events. She is particularly interested in examining the factors that influence learner language, translated language, and other forms of second language use within a unified framework of constrained communication. With this approach, she explores the role of mediation in bilingual production and how it interacts with typological proximity and language proficiency.