This study was supported by the Quanzhou Social Sciences Planning Project (Grant No. 2025D52), the China Scholarship Council Innovative Talent Cultivation Program on Interlingual and International Communication in the Age of AI (Grant No. CXXM20250066), the World Languages and Cultures Special Program under the Fujian Provincial Education and Research Project for Young and Middle-Aged Teachers (Social Sciences) (Grant No. JSZW25020), the Postgraduate Research Innovation Project of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Grant No. 25GWCXXM-028), and the 2025 Teaching Reform and Research Project for Undergraduate Education of Quanzhou Normal University (Grant No. 2025JGX015).
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