Senior Lecturer
Overview
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.
Research Interests
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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. -
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. -
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.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Publications
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Journal Article: Word association responses in L1 and L2 to the Chinese word Yueliang (moon): implications for L2 vocabulary instruction
Jiang, Wenying (2019). Word association responses in L1 and L2 to the Chinese word Yueliang (moon): implications for L2 vocabulary instruction. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 6 (2) doi: 10.30845/ijll.v6n2p2
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Book Chapter: Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension
Jiang, Wenying (2017). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension. Key issues in Chinese as a second language research. (pp. 162-181) edited by Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315660264-8
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Journal Article: A storytelling sound file CALL task used in a tertiary CFL classroom
Jiang, Wenying (2016). A storytelling sound file CALL task used in a tertiary CFL classroom. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 27 (2), 542-554. doi: 10.1111/ijal.12161
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Journal Article: Measurements of development in L2 written production: The case of L2 Chinese
Jiang, Wenying (2013). Measurements of development in L2 written production: The case of L2 Chinese. Applied Linguistics, 34 (1), 1-24. doi: 10.1093/applin/ams019
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Conference Publication: Use of a web-diary as a CALL task in teaching Chinese as a foreign language
Jiang, Wenying (2012). Use of a web-diary as a CALL task in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. LCNAU Colloquium 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 September 2011. Australia: Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU).
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Book: Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language
Jiang, Wenying 姜文英 (2009). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Journal Article: Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study
Jiang, Wenying and Ramsay, Guy (2005). Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study. Language Learning and Technology, 9 (2), 47-63.
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Journal Article: The relationship between culture and language
Jiang, Wenying (2000). The relationship between culture and language. ELT Journal, 54 (4) 1, 328-334. doi: 10.1093/elt/54.4.328
Grants
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(2014) UQ Early Career Researcher
Supervision
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Social Networking Service in Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL): Impacts on Learning Styles and Implications for CFL acquisition in Australian Higher Education
Doctor Philosophy
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Chinese Modal Verbs Study in TCSL
Doctor Philosophy
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A Study of Chinese L2 Learners' Lexical Network Knowledge through Word Association Techniques
(2017) Doctor Philosophy
Available Projects
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Prototype and word association in both L1 and L2 Chinese
Wendy is interested in reading well drafted research proposals in this direction.
Publications
Featured Publications
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Jiang, Wenying (2019). Word association responses in L1 and L2 to the Chinese word Yueliang (moon): implications for L2 vocabulary instruction. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 6 (2) doi: 10.30845/ijll.v6n2p2
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Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension
Jiang, Wenying (2017). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension. Key issues in Chinese as a second language research. (pp. 162-181) edited by Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315660264-8
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A storytelling sound file CALL task used in a tertiary CFL classroom
Jiang, Wenying (2016). A storytelling sound file CALL task used in a tertiary CFL classroom. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 27 (2), 542-554. doi: 10.1111/ijal.12161
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Measurements of development in L2 written production: The case of L2 Chinese
Jiang, Wenying (2013). Measurements of development in L2 written production: The case of L2 Chinese. Applied Linguistics, 34 (1), 1-24. doi: 10.1093/applin/ams019
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Use of a web-diary as a CALL task in teaching Chinese as a foreign language
Jiang, Wenying (2012). Use of a web-diary as a CALL task in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. LCNAU Colloquium 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 September 2011. Australia: Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU).
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Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language
Jiang, Wenying 姜文英 (2009). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study
Jiang, Wenying and Ramsay, Guy (2005). Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study. Language Learning and Technology, 9 (2), 47-63.
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The relationship between culture and language
Jiang, Wenying (2000). The relationship between culture and language. ELT Journal, 54 (4) 1, 328-334. doi: 10.1093/elt/54.4.328
Book
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Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language
Jiang, Wenying 姜文英 (2009). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Book Chapter
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Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension
Jiang, Wenying (2017). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension. Key issues in Chinese as a second language research. (pp. 162-187) edited by Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315660264-8
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Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension
Jiang, Wenying (2017). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: replication and extension. Key issues in Chinese as a second language research. (pp. 162-181) edited by Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315660264-8
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Language medium and self-perceived identity: a case study on Canadian Chinese-English bilinguals
Jiang, Wenying (2015). Language medium and self-perceived identity: a case study on Canadian Chinese-English bilinguals. Translation and cross-cultural communication studies in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 459-465) edited by Leong Ko and Ping Chen. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill - Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789004299245_028
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Australian university students’ comprehensibility of English translated Chinese political slogans
Jiang, Wenying and Wang, Libin (2013). Australian university students’ comprehensibility of English translated Chinese political slogans. Translation Studies and Cross-cultural Communication (in Chinese). (pp. 36-47) edited by Ko, Leong and Chen, Ping. Taiwan: Bookman Books.
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Sullivan, Karen and Jiang, Wenying (2013). When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? A reclassification of metaphors mapping from physical contact to perception. Compendium of Cognitive Linguistics Research. (pp. 189-200) edited by Thomas Fuyin Li. New York, NY, United States: Nova Publishers.
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Jiang, Wenying (2009). Research methodology. Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language. (pp. 111-133) edited by Wenying Jiang. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110216196
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Teaching Chinese word order principles: A linguistic review
Jiang, W. (2004). Teaching Chinese word order principles: A linguistic review. Crossing Boundaries: Perspectives across Paradigms in Educational Research. (pp. 229-258) edited by J. A Vadeboncoeur and P. Jervis-Tracey. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd.
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Using context-specific interactional principles to compare conversations
Spencer-Oatley, H., Zhang, B. and Jiang, W. (2003). Using context-specific interactional principles to compare conversations. Foreign Languages and Culture Researches and Achievements. (pp. 109-119) edited by X. Qin and J. Liu. Guangzhou: South China University of Technology Press.
Journal Article
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Benchmarking students’ attainment in Australian tertiary Chinese programs using the new HSK tests
Jiang, Wenying (2020). Benchmarking students’ attainment in Australian tertiary Chinese programs using the new HSK tests. Creative Education, 11 (05), 624-638. doi: 10.4236/ce.2020.115047
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Jiang, Wenying (2019). Word association responses in L1 and L2 to the Chinese word Yueliang (moon): implications for L2 vocabulary instruction. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 6 (2) doi: 10.30845/ijll.v6n2p2
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Requests made by Australian learners of Chinese as a foreign language
Li, Wei and Jiang, Wenying (2019). Requests made by Australian learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 10 (1), 23. doi: 10.17507/jltr.1001.03
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Jiang, Wenying and Li, Wei (2018). Linking up learners of Chinese with native speakers through WeChat in an Australian tertiary CFL curriculum. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 3 (1) 14 doi: 10.1186/s40862-018-0056-0
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Shen, Chunxuan and Jiang, Wenying (2017). Children's language maintenance and parents' role - a case study of five Chinese immigrant families living in Brisbane. Overseas Chinese Education, 84 (1), 5-19.
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A storytelling sound file CALL task used in a tertiary CFL classroom
Jiang, Wenying (2016). A storytelling sound file CALL task used in a tertiary CFL classroom. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 27 (2), 542-554. doi: 10.1111/ijal.12161
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A comparative study on learning strategies used by Australian CFL and Chinese EFL learners
Jiang, Wenying and Wu, Quingyu (2016). A comparative study on learning strategies used by Australian CFL and Chinese EFL learners. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 5 (2), 213-239. doi: 10.1515/caslar-2016-0009
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Li, Guangli and Jiang, Wenying (2015). On the features of lexical network in Chinese as a second language: a case from Chinese learners in Australia. 华文教学与研究, 60 (4), 22-29.
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Jiang, Wenying (2015). On the status of Chinese language maintenance by primary school students of Chinese ethnicity in Brisbane Australia. 世界汉语教学, 29 (4), 541-550. doi: 10.13724/j.cnki.ctiw.2015.04.013
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Measurements of development in L2 written production: The case of L2 Chinese
Jiang, Wenying (2013). Measurements of development in L2 written production: The case of L2 Chinese. Applied Linguistics, 34 (1), 1-24. doi: 10.1093/applin/ams019
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Focus on the forms: from recognition practice in Chinese vocabulary learning
Harrington, Michael and Jiang, Wenying (2013). Focus on the forms: from recognition practice in Chinese vocabulary learning. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 36 (2), 132-145. doi: 10.1075/aral.36.2.01har
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Sullivan, Karen and Jiang, Wenying (2011). When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? A reclassificaiton of metaphors mapping from physical contact to perception. International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, 2 (2), 185-196.
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Jiang, Wenying (2008). Review of Zhou Yi and M. Lynne Gerber, Working mandarin for beginners, (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007). Modern Language Journal, 92 (4), 650-651. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2008.00793_9.x
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Why is /r/ rendered into /l/ in transliterating English personal names into Chinese?
Jiang, Wenying (2007). Why is /r/ rendered into /l/ in transliterating English personal names into Chinese?. Translation Watch Quarterly, 3 (3), 46-53.
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Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study
Jiang, Wenying and Ramsay, Guy (2005). Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study. Language Learning and Technology, 9 (2), 47-63.
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Spencer-Oatley, H. and Jiang, W. (2003). Explaining cross-cultural pragmatic findings: Moving from politeness maxims to sociopragmatic interactional principles (SIPs). Journal of Pragmatics, 35 (10-11), 1633-1650. doi: 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00025-0
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Jiang, Wenying (2001). Handling 'Culture bumps'. ELT Journal, 55 (4) 1, 382-390. doi: 10.1093/elt/55.4.382
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The relationship between culture and language
Jiang, Wenying (2000). The relationship between culture and language. ELT Journal, 54 (4) 1, 328-334. doi: 10.1093/elt/54.4.328
Conference Publication
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An empirical study on the graduation standard in BA Chinese proficiency in Australia
Wenying Jiang (2019). An empirical study on the graduation standard in BA Chinese proficiency in Australia. The 13th International Conference on Chinese Language Teaching, Beijing, China, 8 - 9 November 2018. Beijing, China: Commercial Press.
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Use of a web-diary as a CALL task in teaching Chinese as a foreign language
Jiang, Wenying (2012). Use of a web-diary as a CALL task in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. LCNAU Colloquium 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 September 2011. Australia: Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU).
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Jiang, Wenying (2011). 以汉语词序教学为例看语言研究与语言教学的接口问题. 国际汉语教学理念与模式创新”国际学术研讨会, Xiamen, China, 12-14 November 2010. Beijing, China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
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Chinese students' perception of EFL teaching at a British university
Jiang, Wenying and 张本慎 [Zhang, Benshen] (2007). Chinese students' perception of EFL teaching at a British university. 4th International Conference on ELT in China: New Directions in ELT in China, Beijing, China, 21-25 May 2004. Beijing, China: 外語教学与研究 - Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Other Outputs
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Jiani (Liu, Juhua), Ma, Qian and Jiang, Wenying (2011). Cicadas' singing. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Gold Mum Publishing; Confucius Institute in Edmonton.
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Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: An error taxonomy
Jiang, Wenying Wendy (2006). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: An error taxonomy. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.
Grants (Administered at UQ)
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(2014) UQ Early Career Researcher
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Current Supervision
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Social Networking Service in Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL): Impacts on Learning Styles and Implications for CFL acquisition in Australian Higher Education
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Chinese Modal Verbs Study in TCSL
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Teaching Chinese in Saudi Arabia
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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The impact of translator's gender on play translation
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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The Pattern of Omission in English - Chinese Audiovisual Translation
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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Analysing IELTS and TOEFL iBT essays: a case of Vietnamese and Cambodian candidates
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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Oral fluency development in EFL classrooms: Stimulating output tasks to foster the uptake and proceduralized knowledge of multiword expressions for use in later speech
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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A study of Howard Goldblatt's English translation of Mo Yan's novels
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Completed Supervision
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A Study of Chinese L2 Learners' Lexical Network Knowledge through Word Association Techniques
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Knowledge of Shàng (to Go Up) Constructions in Chinese as a Second Language
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Possible Research Projects
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
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Prototype and word association in both L1 and L2 Chinese
Wendy is interested in reading well drafted research proposals in this direction.
