George Chunsheng Yang

杨春生

I am from the Northeastern part of China (东北), although many Chinese people often think I am from South China. I was brought up in a small village near Liao River (辽河). Currently I am Ph. D candidate in Chinese Linguistics and working on my dissertation: The Acquisition of Mandarin Prosody by American CFL Learners. I am planning on finishing writing the dissertation within one and a half years. But, we will see...

(In case you are interested in knowing where I am from...)

Address: 398 Hagerty Hall

1775 College Road

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH 43210

Phone: (614) 271-5018

Email address: yang.1067@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Employment

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Ohio State University

Lecturer and coordinator of Chinese Individualized Instruction program (summer 2009)

Chinese Instructor: Second-/third-year Intensive Chinese (Sept. 2008 – June.2009)

Lecturer: Summer Intensive First-year Chinese (June. 2008 – Aug.2008)

Chinese Instructor: Second-/third-year Chinese (Sept. 2007 – June.2008)

Chinese Individualized Instruction Program Coordinator (Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007)

- Responsible for coordinating the whole language program;

Chinese instructor: First-year Chinese (Sept. 2005 – June 2006)

Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, China

English Instructor (Sept. 2000 – June 2005)

- Teaching English reading, speaking, writing and listening, Business English and International Communications, etc.

Education

Ph. D (expected by 2011) in Chinese Linguistics, the Ohio State University

Dissertation Title: The Acquisition of Mandarin Prosody by American CFL Learners

MA in East Asian Languages & Literatures, the Ohio State University (June 2009)

MA in English Linguistics, Ningbo University, China (July 2005)

Thesis Title: On the Status of Prenuclear Glides in Mandarin Chinese

BA in English, University of Science and Technology of China (July 2000)

Honors and awards

Arts & Humanities Post-Prospectus Fellowship, Summer 2010, the Ohio State University

CLTA (Chinese Language Teachers Association) Jiede Empirical Research Grant, 2009

Tien-yi Li Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in Chinese, DEALL, the Ohio State University, 2009

Walton Presentation Award, 2007 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), San Antonio, Texas, November 16-18.

Small Travel Grant, College of Humanities, 2008-2009, the Ohio State University

Small Travel Grant, College of Humanities, 2007-2008, the Ohio State University

Graduate Teaching Associate, DEALL, the Ohio State University (2005- 201-) Outstanding Graduate in Zhejiang Province, China (2005)

First-Grade Graduate Scholarship, Ningbo University, China (2004-2005)

First-Grade Graduate Scholarship, Ningbo University, China (2003-2004)

Outstanding Graduate, University of Science and Technology of China (2000)

Outstanding Student Leader, University of Science and Technology of China (1999)

Professional organizations and services

Membership

Chinese Languages Teachers Association (CLTA) (2007-present)

Linguistic Society of America (2007-2008)

American Association of Applied Linguistics (2009-present)

The Ohio State University

President, Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL) (2008-2010)

President, Graduate Students of East Asian Languages and Literatures (GREALL) (2007-2008)

Graduate representative, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (2007-2008)

Publications & presentations

Publications

2008. Temporal Cues of Discourse Boundaries of L1/L2 Mandarin Speech. In Chan, Marjorie & Kang, Hana (eds.) Proceedings of The 20^th North American Conference of Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Columbus, Ohio, Pp. 229-242.

http://chinalinks.osu.edu/naccl-20/proceedings/10_yang-c.pdf

2007. Chinese Internet language: A sociolinguistic analysis of adaptations of the Chinese writing system. Language @ internet (peer-reviewed electronic journal).

http://www.languageatinternet.de/articles/1142

2006. An Analytic Review of Research on the Status of the Prenuclear Glides in Mandarin Chinese, Contemporary Linguistics （当代语言学）2: 144-155.

2004. Comparisons and Contrasts of Eating-related Metaphors between Chinese and English. Foreign Languages and Their Teaching （外语教学与研究）12: 46-48.

2004. Review of Duanmu San’s The Phonology of Mandarin Chinese. Contemporary Linguistics (当代语言学) 3: 281-284.

2004. The Re-orientation of Oral English Teachers’ Role: From the Perspective of Speech Errors. Journal of Ningbo University (Educational Sciences Edition) 2: 93-95.

Conference Presentations

2010. Prosodic development in an L2 Mandarin learner's oral report. Presented at the 2010 Conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlantan, GA, March 6-9.

2009. How do CFL learners perceive Mandarin tones and intonation? To be presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), held in San Diego, CA, November 20-22.

2009. The acquisition of Intonation & Tones by American CFL Learners. Poster presentation at the 2009 Conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, Colorado, March 21-24.

2008 (with Yang, Jia). Interaction of Tones and Intonation from Learners’ Perspective. Presented at the 7^th International Symposium of Languages and Linguistics, Guangzhou, China, December 5-6.

2008. Temporal Cues of Discourse Boundaries of L1/L2 Mandarin Speech. The 20^th North American Conference of Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Columbus, Ohio, April 25-27.

2008. The Production and Perception of Mandarin Intonation by American Learners. 22^nd Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum, the Ohio State University, April 12^th.

2007. Attitudes and motivations of Chinese HLs and non-HLs: A comparative study. Presented at 2007 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) held in San Antonio, Texas, November 16-18.

2007. Production and perception of Japanese word-medial stops by native speakers of Mandarin: a pilot study. Presented at the 13^th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP) held at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. October, 26-28.

2005. On the status of prenuclear glides in Mandarin Chinese. Accepted (unable to present due to schedule conflict) by the 11^th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP) held at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 4-6.