Dr Yanyin Zhang
Areas of expertise
- Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics 200401
- Chinese Languages 200311
- English As A Second Language 200303
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Discourse And Pragmatics 200403
- Curriculum And Pedagogy 1302
- Lote, Esl And Tesol Curriculum And Pedagogy (Excl. Maori) 130207
- Lexicography 200407
Publications
- Kinoshita, Y & Zhang, Y 2014, 'Why do we teach languages at universities? Re-conceptualization of foreign language education', Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium (LCNAU 2013) - The Second National LCNAU Colloquium, ed. C Travis, J Hajek, C Nettelbeck, E Beckmann and A Lloyd-Smith, LCNAU, Australia, pp. 87-99.
- Zhang, Y 2013, 'L1 transfer under language processing constraint: L2 acquisition of Chinese wh-questions', Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (JCLTA), vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 55-70.
- Zhang, Y & Mi, Y 2010, 'Another Look at the Language Difficulties of International Students', Journal of Studies in International Education, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 371-388.
- DeFrancis, J & Zhang, Y, eds, 2010, ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Zhang, Y & Widyastuti, I 2010, 'Acquisition of L2 English morphology: A family case study', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (online edition), vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 29.1-29.17.
- Zhang, Y 2008, 'Adverb-placement and wh-questions in the L2 Chinese of English speakers: Is transfer a structural property of a processing constraint?', in Keler, Jrg-U (ed.), Processability Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 113-305.
- DeFrancis, J., and Zhang, Y. (Eds.) (2010). ABC Chinese-English English-Chinese Dictionary. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Zhang, Y, and Widyastuti, I. (2010). Acquisition of L2 English morphology: A family case study. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 33/3, pp.29.1-29.14.
- Zhang, Y. (2008). Adverb-placement and wh-questions in the L2 Chinese of English speakers: Is transfer a structural property or a processing constraint. In J. Kessler (ed.). Processability Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning. (pp.113-134). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Zhang, Y. (2007). On the use of local authentic resources in overseas Chinese classroom teaching. Chinese Teaching in the World. 82/4, pp.118-128
- Zhang, Y. (2007). Testing the Topic Hypothesis: Acquisition of L2 Chinese syntax. In F. Mansouri (ed.), Second language research theory-construction and testing (pp.145-172). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Zhang, Y. (2005). Introducing native speakers the foreign language classroom. Journal of American Chinese Teachers Association, 40/3, pp.71-90.
- Zhang, Y. (2005). Processing and formal instruction in the L2 acquisition of five Chinese grammatical morphemes. In M. Pienemann (ed.), Cross-linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory (pp.155-178). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Zhang, Y. (2004). Processing constraints, categorial analysis, and the second language acquisition of Chinese adjective suffix -de(ADJ). Language Learning, 54/3, pp.437-468.
- Zhang, Y. (2003). A note on the accuracy criterion and the emergence criterion. Chinese Teaching in the World, 65/3, pp.52-60.
- Zhang, Y. (2002). A processability approach to the L2 acquisition of Chinese grammatical morphemes. In B. Di Biase (ed.), Developing a Second Language: Acquisition, Processing and Pedagogy of Arabic, Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish. Melbourne: Language Australia. pp.29-44.
- Zhang, Y. (2002). Describing the L2 acquisition process: The genitive and attributive markers of Mandarin Chinese. Journal of American Chinese Teachers Association, 37/2, pp.75-112.
- Zhang, Y. (1995). Indirectness in Chinese requesting. In G. Kasper (ed.), Pragmatics of Chinese As Native and Target Language, (pp.69-118). Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii.
- Zhang, Y. (1995). Strategies in Chinese requesting. In G. Kasper (ed.), Pragmatics of Chinese As Native and Target Language, (pp.23-68). Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii.
- Kasper, G. and Zhang, Y. (1995). 'It's good to be a bit of Chinese': Foreign students' experience of Chinese pragmatics. In G. Kasper (ed.), Chinese Pragmatics As Native and Target Language, (pp.1-22). Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii.
- Chen, X, Ye, L., and Zhang, Y. (1995). Chinese refusal behavior. In G. Kasper (ed.), Pragmatics of Chinese As Native and Target Language (pp.119-164). Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, University of Hawaii.
