Dr. Yan Zhou

Biography

Y Zhou received a Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022. Before joining Northwestern University, Yan taught Chinese language courses at Beijing Normal University, Bucknell University, UCLA, and the Princeton Beijing summer immersion program. At UCLA, Yan taught courses such as Chinese Language and Culture, Chinese Linguistics, and Asian Language Pedagogy. In 2018, Yan was awarded the Mellon - EPIC Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and served as Co-Principal Investigator on a funded project studying inclusive teaching in Chinese language classrooms. Yan applies research methods informed by conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and corpus linguistics to analyze linguistic conversational practices in everyday conversations, classroom interactions, and media discourses. Current research projects investigate timing and multimodal design of speech acts in Chinese, with direct implications for teaching and learning Chinese language and culture. Yan is also involved in an international collaborative project analyzing multilingual pandemic narratives. Yan's research articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Chinese Language Discourse, International Journal of Chinese Language Education, and Text & Talk.

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