Dr Wendy Jiang
Chinese Major
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56353
Researcher biography
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.
Books
Jiani (Liu, Juhua), Ma, Qian and Jiang, Wenying (2011). Cicadas' singing. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Gold Mum Publishing; Confucius Institute in Edmonton.
Jiang, Wenying 姜文英 (2009). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Book Chapters
Jiang, Wenying (2022). Remote Chinese Language Teaching at the University of Queensland During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reflection from Australia. Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely. (pp. 167-180) edited by Shijuan Liu. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-87055-3_7
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 Articles
Shen, Chunxuan and Jiang, Wenying (2023). Parents’ planning, children’s agency and heritage language education: Re-storying the language experiences of three Chinese immigrant families in Australia. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 1083813, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1083813
Shen, Chunxuan and Jiang, Wenying (2022). Chinese immigrant parents’ attitudes, expectations and practices regarding their children’s Chinese language maintenance. Heritage Language Journal, 19 (1), 1-26. doi: 10.1163/15507076-12340023
Wang, Xiaoji and Jiang, Wenying (2022). Exploring the affordances of WeChat for Chinese cultural knowledge learning among learners of Chinese in an international exchange program. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1-27. doi: 10.1080/09588221.2022.2046612
Zeng, Yueying and Jiang, Wenying (2021). Barriers to technology integration into teaching Chinese as a foreign language: a case study of Australian secondary schools. World Journal of Education, 11 (5), 17-30. doi: 10.5430/wje.v11n5p17
Shen, Chunxuan and Jiang, Wenying (2021). Heritage language maintenance and identity among the second-generation Chinese-Australian children. Bilingual Research Journal, 44 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/15235882.2021.1890650
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
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
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), 23-34. doi: 10.17507/jltr.1001.03
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
Jiang, Wenying (2017). 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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
Jiang, Wenying (2007). Why is /r/ rendered into /l/ in transliterating English personal names into Chinese?. Translation Watch Quarterly, 3 (3), 46-53.
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.
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
Jiang, Wenying (2001). Handling 'Culture bumps'. ELT Journal, 55 (4) 1, 382-390. doi: 10.1093/elt/55.4.382
Jiang, Wenying (2000). The relationship between culture and language. ELT Journal, 54 (4) 1, 328-334. doi: 10.1093/elt/54.4.328
Conference Papers
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.
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).
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.
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.
Thesis
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. doi: 10.14264/158129