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Nan Jiang is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland's School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and a member of the Maryland Language Science Center. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (1998), with postdoctoral training at Penn State University. His research focuses on cognitive and psycholinguistic processes in adult second language acquisition, including bilingual language processing, lexical representation, and the interplay between language and thought. He is the author of influential books like The Study of Bilingual Language Processing (OUP, 2023) and Second Language Processing: An Introduction (Routledge, 2018).
Education:
- Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, 1998
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychology, Penn State University, 1998–1999
Research Interests:
- Bilingual language processing
- L2 lexical representation and development
- Language transfer and cognitive mechanisms
- Orthography and visual word recognition
Publications: Over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with recent focus on bilingual phonological activation, L2 emotional Stroop effects, and orthographic priming. His research spans journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Language Learning.
Awards: Recognized as a Top 2% Scientist in Languages and Linguistics (2023).
Labs/Teams: Active in the Maryland Language Science Center, collaborating on interdisciplinary language research.
