Staff profile

Dr Yuzeng Xu

Senior Lecturer, Guest Professor of Nantong University, China

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 424, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA English (Beijing Language Institute), PhD Chinese as second language acquisition (La Trobe).

Membership of professional associations

2002-2004 Chairman - Aust Tertiary Chinese Teachers Assoc. 1990 - present, Chairperson - Mandarin Panel, NAATI (NAATI - National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Australia.

Area of study

Chinese
Asian Studies

Brief profile

Dr. Yuzeng Xu teaches students from different levels in different Chinese subjects. His major research interest relates to Chinese as a second language acquisition. His publications are mainly in the field of applied linguistics. My duty is to lead the panel setting, exam and review NAATI tests and provide consultations to NAATI and the government bodies in relation to Chinese language and language translation issues. In, 1999 I was also invited and had completed a research project in relation to establish an accreditation system of translators and interpreters for Taiwan with Fu Jin Catholic University. Dr Xu has given many public lectures to the Chinese and Australian communities and he was invited many times to give talks about Chinese issues on ABC, SBS radios. He has been as Honorary Visiting Professor of two universities in China.
 

Research interests

Chinese Languages

- Ancient Chinese

- Chinese as a second language acquisition

- Language development and interaction

Teaching units

CHI2/3APA - Chinese for professional and academic purposes. CHI3CPA/B - Readings in contemporary Chinese prose. CHI2/3CCT - Chinese classical texts. CHI2/3CMT - Chinese modern texts. 

Recent publications

Yuzeng, X 2009, 'The Origin of Chinese Word Order: Illustrations from "The Book of Songs"', Chinese Studies Review, 1: 1-13.

 

Yuzeng, X 2007, 'Language as Constraints on Interpretation and the Chinese Language Acquisition', Chinese Studies Review, 2(1): 19-35. Yuzeng, X 2004, Interlanguage Development and Interaction, Hehai University Publisher House.

(This is a longitudinal study of three native English speaking Australians’ development of Chinese as a second language. It is an examination of the relevance of principles from the ZISA and SAMPLE models of second language development for selected features of the Chinese language.)