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    Yunjuan He, Ph.D

    Yunjuan He

    Professor - Chinese

    Phone706-867-4554

    Office locationDunlap Hall, 216-D,  Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, Chinese pedagogy.

    Overview

    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 served as the academic director of the UNG ROTC Chinese Flagship program in AY 2014-2015. She was the PI and the program director of UNG Chinese STARTALK program in the summer of 2019 and AY 2021-2023.

    Courses Taught

    • CHIN 1001 - Elementary Chinese I
    • CHIN 1002 - Elementary Chinese II
    • CHIN 2001 - Intermediate Chinese I
    • CHIN 2002 - Intermediate Chinese II
    • CHIN 2003 - Intermediate Chinese III
    • CHIN 2004 - Intermediate Chinese IV
    • MLAN 2010 - Introduction to Linguistics
    • MLAN 2950L - Applications in Mod Langs II
    • CHIN 3001 - Intermediate-Advanced Chinese I
    • CHIN 3002 - Intermediate-Advanced Chinese II  
    • CHIN 3010 - Exploring China Through Film
    • CHIN 3020 - Chinese Language, Culture & Society          
    • CHIN 4310 - Advanced Chinese Conversation
    • CHIN 4510 - Advanced Chinese Language I
    • CHIN 4520 - Advanced Chinese Language II

    Education

    • 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

    Publications

    He, Y. (forthcoming). Global view on working class: The case of teaching film “piano in factory” 从《钢的琴》谈中美蓝领困境”. In Liu, G. & Wang, H. (eds.), Tradition and transition: Teaching Chinese culture overseas 传统与现代:海外中文文化教学. Beijing: Beijing University Press 北京大学出版社. 

    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. 

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