Dr Wendy Jiang
Dr

Wendy Jiang

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Background

Dr Wenying (Wendy) Jiang taught at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta in Canada and The University of Western Australia in Perth before taking a position at School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland in Australia. She is a specialist in Applied Linguistics, a graduate of Qufu Normal University (BA 1988, MA 1998) in China, University of Luton (MA 2001) in UK and The University of Queensland (PhD 2006) in Australia. She taught English at Taishan Medical University in China for more than ten years before switching to teaching Chinese as a foreign language in English-speaking countries such as the UK, Canada and Australia. She has been publishing regularly in the fields of second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, and computer assisted language learning (CALL) since 1992. Her monograph "Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language" was published by Mouton de Gruyter in 2009. Her article "Measurements of development of L2 written production: the case of Chinese L2" appeared in the journal Applied Linguistics in 2013 is a widely cited piece of publication.

Availability

Dr Wendy Jiang is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Applied linguistics and educational linguistics Chinese languages Curriculum and pedagogy Education LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy Language studies Language, Communication and Culture Linguistics Sociolinguistics Translation and interpretation studies

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition in Chinese

    Acquisition of any aspect of the Chinese language such as culturally loaded words, tones, particles, measure words, Modal verbs and specific structures like ba construction and bei construction. Or L2 mental lexicon (vocabulary acquisition ) in Chinese.

  • Technology enhanced language learning (TELL)

    Well designed online tasks used in task-based language teaching, or generally CALL/TELL tasks used in a foreign language classroom. Or any projects on Chinese pedagogy.

  • Intercultural Communication

    Contrastive analysis between Chinese and English or politeness issues in Intercultural communication.

Research impacts

Wendy's monograph Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language published by De Gruyter Mouton in 2009 is held by 1226 libraries worldwide across academic institutions in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Retrieved from https://www.worldcat.org on 3 May 2019.

One of her papers entitled " The relationship between culture and language" published in ELT Journal received 442 citations. She has also been receiving emails from now and then from all over the world requesting the paper as a reference.

Wendy's paper "Measurements of developments in L2 written production: The case of Chinese L2" published in Applied Linguistics has insipired numbers of researchers in measuring Chinese L2 development, for which she often receives acknolodgements at conferences.

Wendy was invited to conduct a training program for teachers of English and English/Chinese translation in the School of Foreign Languages at Qilu University of Technology in Jinan, Shandong, China from 2 to 29 December 2018. She has been officially appointed as a Guest Professor at this university.

Wendy was invited to speak as a specialist in applied linguistics at “Hongmen Dialogue” Expert Forum held at the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, Beijing, China, on Saturday1st December 2018.

Search Professor Wendy Jiang’s works on UQ eSpace

41 works between 2000 and 2025
All (41) Book (1) Journal Article (24) Other Outputs (3) Conference Publication (4) Book Chapter (9)

41 - 41 of 41 works

2001

Journal Article

Handling 'Culture bumps'

Jiang, Wenying (2001). Handling 'Culture bumps'. ELT Journal, 55 (4) 1, 382-390. doi: 10.1093/elt/55.4.382

Handling 'Culture bumps'

Past funding

  • 2014
    Measurement of syntactic development in the Chinese written production by first language (L1) primary and high school students
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Wendy Jiang is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Prototype and word association in both L1 and L2 Chinese

    Wendy is interested in reading well drafted research proposals in this direction.

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Master Philosophy

    Factors that affect Chinese as a Heritage language learning in Australian Universities after the Pandemic

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Obaid Hamid

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Satisfaction with mobile learning among tertiary second language learners of Chinese in China

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Angela Cook

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Critical analysis of primary Chinese language textbooks for ethnic Korean students: Cultural values and national identity

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Isaac Lee

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Study on Translation and Interpretation of Chinese Business Law and Its Practice from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Lily Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Teaching Chinese in Saudi Arabia: Investigating the Policy Rationale and Its Implementation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Obaid Hamid

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The economics of Chinese as a heritage language in Australia: An ethnographic case study

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Obaid Hamid

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Dr Wendy Jiang directly for media enquiries about:

  • Chinese-Australian identity
  • Teaching Chinese as a foreign language
  • Technology Enhanced Language Learning
  • Training Teachers of Chinese in Queensland

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