Education
M.A. Spanish, Beijing Foreign Studies University (2025)
B.A. Spanish, Nanjing University (2022)
Research
I’m interested in phonetics, prosody, speech perception and bilingualism.
In particular, I’m interested in how L2 and heritage speakers perceive and produce different acoustic properties within a single prosodic event, how they differ from monolingual native speakers and how these differences are reflected in their learning trajectories.
Lately, I’ve been working on the acoustic correlations in Spanish, Mandarin and English nuclear stress and their effect on the learnability for L2 speakers.
Publications
Shu, Z. & Duan, J. (2024) Cultural Representations in the Germany-produced CFL Textbook from Semiotic Approach Perspective: A Case Study of Tóngdào neu. CHUN ‒ Chinesischunterricht, 39/2024, 30-47.
Presentations
“Contrastive Study on Chinese and Spanish BLOOD Metaphor: A corpus-based approach.” 2023 BFSU High-level Postgraduate Academic Forum, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2023.
“Perception-production Relationship in the Acquisition of Spanish /ɾ/-/l/ Contrast by Chinese Learners.” 6th National Conference on Second Language Processing, Suzhou University, 2022.