معرفی
Yunwen Su serves as Assistant Professor and Director of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with additional appointments in Linguistics and the Center for East Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research centers on second language acquisition, particularly pragmatic and interactional competence development in Chinese language learning.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Second Language Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
- M.A. in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Xi'an Jiaotong University
- B.A. in English, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Dr. Su investigates acquisition, pedagogy, and assessment of L2 pragmatics, examining learners' pragmatic production through linguistic approaches. Her recent work explores nonproductive aspects of pragmatic competence focusing on prosody-pragmatics interfaces and digital-context interactional competence assessment, alongside native speaker analysis of Chinese speech events from cross-cultural perspectives.
Analysis of her 2023-2025 publications reveals increasing methodological sophistication through computational analysis, acoustic measurement, and discourse-gating tasks applied to Mandarin speech acts. Key trends include prosody-pragmatics integration in refusal strategies and digital assessment tools for business Chinese contexts.
Grants:
- 2023–2024: CIBER Business Language Research Grant for 'Web-Based Instruction of Second Language Chinese Pragmatics in Business Chinese' (with Yingling Bao)
- 2021–2022: CIBER Business Language Research Grant for 'Gift Giving Interactions and the Chinese Concept of Politeness' (with Yingling Bao)
