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Dr Wenying(Wendy)Jiang is currently an Assistant Professor at Asian Studies, School of Social and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia. Before taking up this position, she used to work as an assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts in University of Alberta, Canada. She is a specialist in Applied Linguistics, a graduate of Qufu Normal University (BA 1987, 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 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 CALL since 1992. Her new monograph/book "Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language" was published in 2009.
Key Research and Expertise
1.Second language acquisition in Chinese
2.Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
3.Intercultural communication
Current Projects
"Comparing Chinese L1 and L2 Mental Lexicons"
Publications
Jiang, Wenying (2009), Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language. MOUTON DE GRUYTER.
Jiang, Wenying (2007). Why is /r/ rendered to /l/ in transliterating English personal names into Chinese? Translation Watch Quarterly, Vol 3, Issue 3.
Jiang, Wenying & Zhang, Benshen (2007). Chinese Students’ Perception of EFL Teaching at a British University. In W. Hu & Q. Wen (eds.) ELT in China (4): Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on ELT in China (pp. 306-327). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Jiang, Wenying (2006). Acquisition of word order in Chinese as a foreign language: An error taxonomy. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. The University of Queensland.
Jiang, Wenying & Ramsay, Guy (2005). Rapport-building through CALL in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study. Language Learning & Technology, 9 (2), 47-63
Jiang, Wenying (2004). Teaching Chinese word order principles: A linguistic review. In J. A. Vadeloncoeur & P. Jervis-Tracy (eds.) Crossing Boundaries in Educational Research: Perspectives Across Paradigms (pp.229-258). Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
Spencer-Oatey, Helen & Jiang, Wenying (2003) Explaining cross-cultural pragmatic findings: moving from politeness maxims to sociopragmatic interactional principles (SIPs), Journal of Pragmatics, 35 (10-11), pp.1633-1650
Jiang, Wenying (with Spencer-Oatey and Zhang) (2003) Using context-specific interactional principles to compare conversations (Chinese version). In Qin Xiubai & Liu Jianbo (Eds.), Foreign Languages and Culture Researches and Achievements ( pp. 109-119). Guangzhou: South China University of Technology Press.
Jiang, Wenying (with Zhang, Benshen) (2001) Plagiarism: Different Cutural Perspective. China English Teaching ---Proceedings of the International Symposium of ELT in China 2001. Beijing: Foreign Language Research Press.
Jiang, Wenying (2001) Handling 'Culture Bumps'. ELT Journal, 55(4), pp.382-390
Jiang, Wenying (2000) The Relationship between Culture and Language. ELT Journal 54(4), pp.328-334
Jiang, Wenying (2000) Am I qualified to teach English? Modern English Teacher, 9(1), pp.59-61
Jiang, Wenying (1998) Interest is the Best Teacher. Modern English Teacher, 7(2), p.57
Publications in Chinese
Jiang, Wenying (1999) Socio-psychological factors in English language sexism. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching, 1999.3
Jiang, Wenying & Ju, Yumei (1998) Developing EFL Students’ Sense of Style. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching, 1998.3
Jiang, Wenying (1999) Key to the Teaching Reform--Teaching Qualities of English Teachers in Universities. Journal of Shanxi Education College, 1999.4
Jiang, Wenying (1999) On Linguistic Markers of Power and Solidarity. Language Teaching and Research, 1999 Vol.2
Jiang, Wenying & Zhang, Xiuqing (1999) A Falling Leaf and Loneliness: On the Visual Effects of E. E. Cummings' Picture Poem l(a. Language Teaching and Research, 1999 Vol.1
Jiang, Wenying & Yu, Hong (1999) Take "dog" and "gou" to Compare the Cultural Connotations of English and Chinese Words. Language Teaching and Research, 1999 Vol.1
Ju, Yumei & Jiang, Wenying (1998) Comparison between the works of Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers. In Zhong Guohua (Ed.): Foreign Language and Literature Research. Heilongjiang People’s Press, March 1998
Jiang, Wenying (Chief editor, 1997) Fascinating English. Xuzhou: China Mining University Press
Jiang, Wenying (Chief-editor, 1996) Practical English Handbook for College Students. Nanjing: Yilin Press
Jiang, Wenying (Co-editor, 1994) Selected Vocabulary and Collocation of College English Band Four. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaotong University Press
Jiang, Wenying (Co-translator, 1992) Pediatrics (Traditional Chinese Medicine), translated from Chinese into English, Jinan: Shandong Science and Technology Press
Conference Presentations
Jiang, Wenying (2008). Task-based and assessment-driven language teaching at First Annual Conference on L2 Learning and Teaching held during April 25& 26 at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Jiang, Wenying (2007). CALL in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom: a study of web-diary use at The Annual Conference on Integration of IT and Foreign Language Curriculum held during December 21-23, 2007 in Guangzhou China.
Jiang, Wenying (2006). Task-based teaching in foreign language classroom. Independent Schools of Queensland Workshop for Chinese Teachers held on 11 August 2006 at The University of Queensland.
Jiang, Wenying (2005). A framework for understanding Chinese L2 word order acquisition: Taxonomy of word order errors. 30th Annual Congress of Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 25-28 September 2005.
Jiang, Wenying (2004). Teaching Chinese word order principles. The 4th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy, Kunming, PR China, 2-4 July 2004.
Jiang, Wenying (2004). Task-based and assessment-driven language learning. Presentation at Seminar for EFL Teacher Training, Qufu Normal University on 27 June 2004, Shandong University on 28 June 2004 and Beijing Normal University on 25 December 2004.
Spencer-Oatey, H., Zhang, B. & Jiang, W. (2001) Using Context-Specific Interactional Principles to Compare Conversations. IRIC Conference Comparing Cultures, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Holland, 26th April 2001
Jiang, Wenying & Zhang, Benshen (2001) Plagiarism: Different Cultural Perspectives. International Symposium of ELT in China, Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Beijing, PR China, 19th -22nd May 2001
Languages
1.Chinese (Putonghua): native fluency in both spoken and written.
2.English: near-native fluency in both spoken and written.
3.French: higher intermediate level in reading and translation, primary level in speaking
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