Jie Zhang

Acting Section Head, Ph.D in Applied Linguistics, Chair of Steering Committee, Chinese

Jie Zhang, Associate Professor of Chinese Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics at OU, received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University in 2011. Her research areas are second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, and Chinese as a second language. Specifically, she is interested in applying sociocultural theory to teaching foreign languages. She has published widely on dynamic assessment, concept-based instruction, and learner corpus analysis. She has also done research on ESL writing.

At OU, she teaches intermediate and advanced Chinese language courses, along with Principles and Techniques of Teaching a Foreign Language. Prior to OU, she taught ESL Writing at the Pennsylvania State University for two years. Before that, she taught a wide range of EFL courses (intermediate, advanced, English Listening and Speaking, English Writing, Business English, Translation) at Tsinghua University and the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China.

For the MA in TESOL program, Dr. Zhang teaches "SLA for ESL" (TESL 5123) and serves as the chair of the program's Steering Committee.

Selected Publications

Wang, Zhaoyu, & Jie Zhang. (2023). Mediation and learner reciprocity: A dynamic assessment application in the oral proficiency interview framework. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 10(1): 82-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/lst.22181
Jin, Honggang, Jie Zhang, & Hongyin Tao. (2023). Chinese verb complement constructions of manner: A corpus-based comparison between L1 and L2 speakers. In K. Mochizuki, Howard Chen, & Hongyin Tao (Eds.), Learner corpora: Construction and explorations in Chinese and related languages (pp. 107-133). Singapore: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5731-4_6
Jin, Honggang, Jie Zhang, & Hongyin Tao. (2022). Learner errors and L2 processing: A new way to examine construction learning via corpus data.In Fangyuan Yuan, Baozhang He, & Wenze Hu (Eds.), Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in L2 Chinese (pp. 111-133). Routledge: New York. DOI: 10.4324/9781003161646-10
Xu, Yi, & Jie Zhang. (2022). Chinese compound word inference through context and word-internal cues. Language Teaching Research, 26(3): 308-332. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168820905811 *Impact factor: 4.815
Zhang, Jie. (2021). L2 Chinese learners’ lexical and grammatical development of result-state resultative verb compounds: A usage-based corpus study. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 2(1): 1-16.
Xu, Yi, & Jie Zhang. (2020). Context-based lexical inferencing and the learning of resultative verb compounds. Teaching Chinese in the World, 34(4): 442-455.
Zhang, Jie, & Xiaofei Lu. (2019). Measuring and supporting second language development using computerized dynamic assessment. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 6 (1): 92-115.

Education

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. The Pennsylvania State University. 2011
M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Foreign Languages. Tsinghua University. 2004
B.A. in English. Shandong University. 2001