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Yan Liu

Yan Liu

Associate Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
yl286@duke.edu
2204 Erwin Road, John Hope Fra, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
2204 Erwin Road, John Hope Fra, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours W: 1:30-3:30 PM  

Selected Publications

针对华裔学生的美国大学中文教材

Journal Article Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報). The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA · December 31, 2023 摘要近些年来，美国大学中文课中传承语学习者的数量不断增加 (Xiang, 2016)。然而，现有的传承语教材数量比较少，且目前美国大学中文项目所使用的华裔中文教材也存在一定的局限性 (Luo et al., 2019)。因此，编写新的大学中文传承语教材势在必行。本文首先回顾了相关传承语教学以及中文传承语学习者的研究，然后对 ... Full text Open Access Cite

传承中文 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners Stories about Us

Book · April 21, 2023 The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and eventually to the entire American society, all from the unique perspective of Chinese American ... ... Cite

Boundary Crossing: Integrating Visual Arts into Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Chapter · March 15, 2023 This chapter reports on the author’s effort to cross disciplinary boundaries in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). It presents a mixed-methods study that examines student perceptions about, as well as the benefits and the challenges of, integrat ... Link to item Cite

Sustainability across the Curriculum: A Multilingual and Intercultural Approach

Chapter · January 1, 2021 Developed in the 1980s, Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) programs provide a content-based curricular framework for developing and applying language and intercultural competence within diverse academic disciplines through the use of multi ... Full text Cite

Acquisition of Chinese characters: the effects of character properties and individual differences among second language learners.

Journal Article Frontiers in psychology · January 2015 In light of the dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development, this study drew upon theories of visual complexity effect (Su and Samuels, 2010) and dual-coding processing (Sadoski and ... Full text Open Access Cite

Comprehension of conversational implicature in L2 Chinese

Journal Article Pragmatics and Cognition · November 2013 Cite