Representative Publications

Technology-facilitated language instruction & emergency remote teaching:

Xu, Y., Jin, L. Deifell, E., & Angus, K. (2021) “Facilitating technology-based character learning in emergency remote teaching." Foreign Language Annals. DOI: 10.1111/flan.12541 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/flan.12541

Xu, Y., Jin, L., Deifell, E., & Angus, K. (2021) Chinese character instruction online: A technology acceptance perspective in emergency remote teaching. System. 100, 102542. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0346251X21000968

Jin, L., Xu, Y., Deifell, E., & Angus, K. (2021). Emergency remote language teaching and U.S.-based college-level world language educators’ intention to adopt online teaching in postpandemic times. The Modern Language Journal, 105(2). DOI: 10.1111/modl.12712 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/modl.12712

Xu, Y. & Zhu, L. (2019). Online peer feedback in second language Chinese writing: From feedback, uptake, to perception. Chinese as a Second Language, 54(3), 257-287. https://benjamins.com/catalog/csl.19012.zhu

Xu, Y. (2007). Re-examining the effects and affects of electronic peer reviews in a freshmen composition class. The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 7(2): 1-21. http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/xu/article.pdf

Orthographic and character learning in Chinese SLA:

Xu, Y., Chang, L.-Y., & Perfetti, C. A. (2016). The distribution and grouping effect in character learning: Using data-driven E-learning materials in language teaching. In Hsin, S.-C., Chen, J.-G., & Hsieh, C.-L. (Eds.), Chinese Language Teaching and Computer Usages, pp. 97-115. Taipei: Wunan Press.

Xu, Y., Chang, L.-Y., & Perfetti, C. A. (2014). The effect of radical-based grouping in character learning in Chinese as a foreign language. The Modern Language Journal, 98(3), 773-793. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/modl.12122

Xu, Y., & Chang, L.-Y. (2014). Computer-assisted character learning using animation and visual chunking. In Li, S. and Swanson, P. (Eds.) Engaging language learning through technology integration: Theory, applications, and outcomes, pp. 1-22. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Chang, L. Y., Xu, Y., Perfetti, C. A., Zhang, J., & Chen, H.-C. (2014). Supporting orthographic learning at the beginning stage of learning to read Chinese as a second language. International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education, 61(3), 288-305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2014.934016

Xu, Y., Chang, L.-Y., Zhang, J., & Perfetti, C. A. (2013). Reading, writing, and animation in Chinese as a foreign language character learning. Foreign Language Annals, 46(3), 423-444. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/flan.12040

Vocabulary learning and lexical inference in Chinese SLA:

Xu, Y. & Chen, L. (Forthcoming). “Wordhood and polysemy of characters in naming tasks for skilled Chinese as a foreign language learners.” In Yuan, F., B. He., & W. Hu (Eds.), Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in L2 Chinese. Chinese Language Teachers Association Monograph VI. Routledge.

Xu, Y. & Zhang, J. (2020). 语境支持下的词义猜测及动补式的认知与习得 [Context-based lexical inferencing and the learning of resultative verb compounds]. 《世界汉语教学》[Chinese Language Teaching in the World], 4, 546-560.

Xu, Y. & Zhang, J. (2020). Chinese compound word inference through context and word-internal cues. Language Teaching Research. Online First. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362168820905811

Grammar and grammatical development in L2 Chinese:

Xu, Y. (2020). Perfective -le use and consciousness-raising among beginner-level Chinese learners. Languages, 5(2), 16. Special issue: The acquisition of Chinese as a First and Second Language. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5020016

Xu, Y. (2014). Processing relative clauses in Chinese as a second language. Second Language Research, 30(4), 439-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658313511485

Xu, Y. (2014). Evidence of the Accessibility Hierarchy in relative clauses in Chinese as a second language. Language and Linguistics, 15(3), 435-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/1606822X14520666

Xu, Y. (2014). Relativization strategies in Chinese as a foreign language learners’ interlanguage. In Huang, C.-T., and Liu, F.-H. (Eds.), Peaches and Plums, pp. 379-400. Taipei: Academia Sinica.

Xu, Y. (2013). CFL learners’ production of relative clauses with demonstratives – From theory to empirical research. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 2(2), 169-192.

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Xu, Y. (2014). A corpus-based functional study of shi…de constructions. Chinese Language and Discourse, 5(2), 146-184. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.5.2.02xu

Xu, Y. (2007). Teaching materials and authentic language: A case study of shi…de sentences from corpora. In Cheng, A., He, W., and Mu, L. (Eds.) Essays on Teaching Chinese to American Students, pp. 239-244. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2007.

Invited Talks (Selective)

November 21, 2021. End-of-program Roundtable. The 12^th International Conference of Asia-Pacific Consortium of Teaching Chinese as an International Language. Hosted by Shanghai International Studies University, School of Chinese Studies & Exchange.

October 1, 2021. “Technology-enhanced character instruction in emergency remote teaching in the U.S.: A mixed method study.” Hosted by Chinese Language Teachers Association – Chinese as a Second Language Research SIG.

May 22, 2021. “Focus-on-form in Communicative Activities in Language Classrooms.” Chinese Language Teaching in the U.S. Online Seminar Series. Beijing Language & Culture University Press.

April 24, 2021. “Learning perfective aspect through attention to form in role-play.” 2021 International Roundtable on Chinese Applied Linguistics. University of Iowa.

June 24, 2020. “Innovation during a Time of Change: Teaching Strategies and Instruction.” Opening plenary in Virtual National Chinese Language Conference. Asia Society and the College Board. (4,100 attendees)