PUBLICATONS

RESEARCH INTEREST

- Chinese Linguistics; First, Second, and Heritage Language Acquisition; Language Program Development; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Language Teacher Education; AP® Chinese Course and Exam.

- Tense and Aspect, Genericity, Existentials, Noun Phrases, Articles and Demonstratives.

Email: chang23@oakland.edu

PUBLICATIONS

2021, in press. Chang, Song, Meng, and Xu. "AP® Chinese Pathway." Multimedia assessment of listening, speaking, reading, and writing for 60 selective graded readers, including sample answers for all of the writing and speaking prompts. iChineseReader.com, iChineseEdu, Chinese Language Education and Research Center (CLERC), Santa Clara, California.

2021, in press. Hsieh, Yu, and Chang. "AP® Chinese Language and Culture Simulated Tests." 10 full sets of simulated tests. iChineseReader.com, iChineseEdu, Chinese Language Education and Research Center (CLERC), Santa Clara, California.

2021-2019, in press. Chief editor and Author for "AP® Chinese Essential Reading Series" (published books). This series includes 100 Chinese intermediate-high to advanced-low graded readers targeting high school Chinese learners to be published by iChineseReader.com, iChineseEdu, Chinese Language Education and Research Center (CLERC), Santa Clara, California.

2021, in press. 10 graded readers focusing on "global challenge" issues -- such as elderly living alone, senior driving, sports industry, urban poverty, immigrant gambling, etc.

Titles of the books:
How About My Brother?; Dad, Please Don’t Drive; Grandma Doesn’t Recognize Me; Nicer to the Cat; Chinese Hip-Pop, American Boyfriend; Online Prime Membership; The Midnight Thief; No More Poor People; Tears of a Basketball Player; Casinos on the US-Canada Border

2019. Zhang, Xianghua. On the Practice of Communicative-Based Approach in Business Chinese Teaching -- Examples from an Intermediate Business Chinese Course. International Chinese Language Education , 4(4).34-42.

张相华《浅谈以沟通交际为主的商务汉语教学--以中级商务汉语课为例》. 国际汉语教育(中英文) , 4(4).34-42. [ABSTRACT] [PAPER LINK]

2016. Interpretation of Bare and Demonstrative Noun Phrases in the Acquisition of Mandarin. Language and Linguistics 17:6.797-825. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1606822X16660952 [ABSTRACT] [PAPER LINK]

2014. Mandarin Bare Classifier-Nouns: Towards a Universal Structure for Classifiers and Plurals. Journal of Universal Language 15:1.1-70. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22425/jul.2014.15.1.1 [PAPER]

2014. Review of "Constructing the Heritage Language Learner." International Journal of Language Studies 8:2.141-147. [PAPER] (An earlier version: Linguist List 25.1420. [LINK])

2013. The Aspect Marker –Le in Early Child Mandarin. Journal of Universal Language 14:1.7-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22425/jul.2013.14.1.7 [PAPER]

2012. Review of "500 Common Chinese Idioms." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 47:1.171-175. [PAPER] (An earlier version: Linguist List 22.3293. [LINK])

2005. Miller, Karen, Cristina Schmitt, Hsiang-Hua Chang, and Alan Munn. Young children understand ‘some’ implicatures. The proceedings of the 29^th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 29). pp. 389-400. [PAPER]

2004. Definite NPs in Mandarin ‘you’-existentials. The proceedings of the 40^th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 40). pp.33-43. [PAPER]