Nan Jiang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nan Jiang plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2542-3835 | E-ISSN 2542-3843
Titles
Studies of Bilingual Processing Presented to Kenneth I. Forster
Edited by Nan Jiang
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 4:2 (2021) v, 211 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism
Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1
Edited by Nan Jiang
[Journal of Second Language Studies, 1:1] 2018. iii, 230 pp.
Articles
2021 Examining L1 influence in L2 word recognition: A case for case Journal of Second Language Studies 4:1, pp. 1–18 | Article
The present study examined L1 influence in visual L2 word recognition in the area of letter case. Whether an English word is displayed in upper- or lower-case letters may be of little significance to English native speakers, but many ESL speakers from east Asia have found it more difficult to… read more
2021 Introduction Studies of Bilingual Processing Presented to Kenneth I. Forster, Jiang, Nan (ed.), pp. 201–203 | Introduction
2021 Orthographic friends and lexical strangers in the L2 lexicon Studies of Bilingual Processing Presented to Kenneth I. Forster, Jiang, Nan (ed.), pp. 224–244 | Article
Some recent studies demonstrated a lexical processing difference between L1 and L2. In a lexical decision task, masked word primes had an inhibitory or no effect on the identification of their neighbor targets (e.g., reason-SEASON) in L1, but they produced a faciliatory priming effect in L2. The… read more
2018 Chapter 6. Semantic processing and development in Chinese as a second language Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages, Pae, Hye K. (ed.), pp. 121–136 | Chapter
Languages differ in the semantic structures underlying their linguistic forms. Thus, the learning of a new language entails the development of a semantic system that is specific to the target language. This chapter reviews recent studies that examined three topics related to semantic processing and… read more
2011 Chapter 9. Semantic integration in listening comprehension in a second language: Evidence from cross-modal priming Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from Psycholinguistics, Trofimovich, Pavel and Kim McDonough (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Article
A cross-modal priming task was used to examine listening comprehension by second language speakers. Participants were asked to perform a written lexical decision task on targets that were presented in different auditory sentential contexts. The context and the target were congruent (i.e., the… read more
2004 6. Semantic transfer and development in adult L2 vocabulary acquisition Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing, Bogaards, Paul and Batia Laufer (eds.), pp. 101–126 | Chapter