Global and International Studies Building, 2023
Education
Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, The University of Iowa
M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Central China Normal University
B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Central China Normal University
Research Interests
Chinese as a second language learning and teaching
Second language grammar development and acquisition
Second language acquisition theories and research methods
Second language assessment and testing
Technology-assisted language learning and teaching
Bio
Dr. Yuan Lu is an assistant professor of Chinese applied linguistics in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University-Bloomington. His research interests include second language acquisition theories and research methods, grammar learning and teaching in Chinese as a second language, and second language assessment and testing. His work has been published in journals such as The Modern Language Journal, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Research, and Language Teaching Research.
Courses
- EALC-C101/102: Elementary Chinese I & II
- EALC-C301/302: Third-year Chinese I & II
- EALC-C505: Chinese Pedagogical Grammar
- EALC-E505: East Asian Languages Acquisition: Theory and Research
Publications
- Lin, J., & Lu, Y. (2025). Second language learning difficulty of Chinese grammar: A Rasch analysis of teachers’ perceptions. Applied Linguistics, 46(2), 265–285. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae024
- Lu, Y. (2025). L2 competence in Chinese correlative connectives: A case of discontinuous discursive formulaic sequences. Language Teaching Research, 29(1), 288–314. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688211060428
- Lu, Y., & Pan, X. (2024). Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study. Journal of Second Language Writing, 66, 101150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101150
- Lu, Y., & Ke, C. (2023). Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group’s transdisciplinary framework. The Modern Language Journal, 107(4), 922–943. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12881
- Lan, G., Pan, X., Sun, Y., & Lu, Y. (2023). Part of speech tagging of grammatical features related to L2 Chinese development: A case analysis of Stanza in the L2 writing context. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1139703. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1139703
- Lu, Y. (2019). L2 distribution of Chinese connectives: Towards a comprehensive understanding of a discourse grammar. Second Language Research, 35(4), 557–586. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658318791662
- Lu, Y., & Ke, C. (2018). L2 Chinese grammar development. In C. Ke (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of Chinese second language acquisition (pp. 151–216). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315670706-8
- Ke, C., Lu, Y., & Pan, X. (2015). Assessing international Chinese language teachers’ second language acquisition theoretical foundation and language pedagogy. Chinese Teaching in the World [Shijie Hanyu Jiaoxue], 29(1), 111–129