Yunjuan He, Ph.D

Dr. Yunjuan He received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Florida. Her primary research interest falls across the fields of sound systems and second language acquisition. She investigates how linguistic, social and pedagogical factors affect the perception and production of L2 segmental and supersegmental features. Her second research interest is language pedagogy. She has conducted several studies to test different techniques and methodologies to engage American students in and outside of class effectively.

Dr. He was the PI and the program director of UNG Chinese STARTALK program in the summer of 2019 and AY 2021-2023. She was also the recipient of the UNG Presidential Academic Innovation Award in 2013 and 2018 and UNG Teaching Excellence Award in 2015.

• Ph.D, Linguistics, University of Florida
• M.A., Linguistics, University of Victoria, Canada
• B.A., Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University

He, Y. (2022). Global View on Working Class: The Case of Teaching Film 'Piano in Factory'. In Liu, G. & Wang, H. (eds.), Tradition and transition: Teaching Chinese culture overseas. Beijing: Peking University Press

Chen, S., Li, B., He, Y., Chen, S, Yang, Y. (2022) The effects of perceptual training on Mandarin tone sandhi rule applications by tonal and non-tonal speakers, Speech Communication, (139), 10-21.

Chen, S. He, Y., Wayland, R., Yang, Y., Li, B., and Yuen, C. Y (2019) Mechanisms of tone sandhi rule application by tonal and non-tonal non-native speakers, Speech Communication, (115), 67-77.

Chen, S, He, Y., Yuen, C. W., Li, B., and Yang, Y. (2017). Mechanisms of Tone Sandhi Rule Application by Non-native Speakers. Proceedings of Interspeech, 2017: 1760 – 1764.

He, Y. & Qin, X. (2017). Students’ perceptions of an internship experience in China: A pilot study. Foreign Language Annals, 50 (1), 57-70.

He, Y., Wang, Q. and Wayland, R. (2016). Effect of different teaching methods on production of Mandarin Tone 3 by English speaking learners, Chinese as a Second Language: The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA, 51 (3), 252-265.

He, Y. (2014). A survey on factors that have effects on the pronunciation of Mandarin Tones of disyllabic words by American learners, Guoji Hanyu Jiaoyu (International Chinese Language Education), 136-146.

He, Y. (2014).  Production of English syllable final L by Mandarin speakers. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 5 (4), 742-750.

He, Y. and Wayland, R. (2013). Identification of Mandarin coarticulated tones by inexperienced and experienced English learners of Mandarin. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 2 (1), 1-21.

He, Y., Wang, Q, and Wiltshire, C. (2011). The acoustic features of English lexical stress by Mandarin speakers. Daxue Yingyu (College English), Vol 8. No.2. 152-158. 

He, Y. and Wayland, R. (2010). Production of Mandarin coarticulated tones by inexperienced and experienced English learners of Mandarin. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 100123: 1-4. 

He, Y., Wang, Q, and Wiltshire, C. (2008). Production of English lexical stress by inexperienced and experienced learners of English. Canadian Acoustics, Vol. 36. No.3. 128-129.