Jia Zhu
Assistant Professor, Chinese
Burdick 309 C
(501) 852-2332
Educational Background
Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition University of Iowa
M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language University of Iowa
M.A. in English as a Second Language University of Arizona
B.A. in both Chinese and English Sichuan Normal University, China
Specialty Fields
Second Language Acquisition
Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy
Research Interests
Sociocultural and Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Learning
Cultural Dimensions of Second Language Acquisition
Discourse Analysis
Language Program Direction
Current Focus
Culture Learning in Second Language Classroom
Classroom Discourse and Interaction