Jiang, Nan
Associate Professor
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Program in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
College of Arts and Humanities
4117 Jimenez Hall
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301-405-1378
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General Research Interests:
- Study of cognitive/psycholinguistic processes and mechanisms involved in adult second language acquisition
- Bilingual language processing
- Lexical representation and development in L2
- Language transfer
- Integration of linguistic knowledge in adult L2 learning
- Relationship between language and thought
Background:
Nan Jiang received his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University in 1998-1999, and taught at Auburn University and Georgia State University before joining the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMD as an associate professor of SLA.