Associate Professor
Department Chair
Contact Information
GWN 225
Office Hours
Mondays 11:30am - 1:00pm (students) | Thursdays 11:00am - 1:00pm (faculty)
Biography
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
Research
Selected Research
- Pace, A. Lü, C., Zhou, J. & Guo, L. (2024). Narrative skills in Mandarin–English dual language immersion learners. Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae013
- Lü, C., Pace, A. & Liu, L. (2023). Student-level variables and academic achievement in a Mandarin dual language immersion program. In D. Zhang & R. Miller (eds.), Crossing boundaries in researching, understanding, and improving language education: Essays in honor of G. Richard Tucker (pp. 213-229). Springer.
- Lü, C., Pace, A. & Ke, S. (2022). Bidirectional transfer of definition skills and expressive vocabulary knowledge in Chinese-English dual language learners. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2108308
- Zhou, J. & Lü, C. (2022). Enhancing syntactic complexity in L2 Chinese writing: Effects of form-focused instruction on the Chinese topic chain. Frontiers of Psychology, section Educational Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.843789
- Lü, C. (2020). Teaching and learning Chinese through immersion: A case study from the North American context. Frontiers of Education in China (special issue: The Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language: The Current Situation and Future Directions), 15, 1, 91-141.
- Lü, C. (2019) Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program, London: Palgrave Mcmillan.
- Lai, C., Qi, X., Lü, C. & Lyu, B. (2018) The effectiveness of guided inductive instruction and deductive instruction on semantic radical development in Chinese character processing. Language Teaching Research.
- Lü, C. (2017). The roles of pinyin skill in English-Chinese biliteracy learning: Evidence from Chinese immersion learners. Foreign Language Annals, 50, 306-322.
- Lü, C., & Koda, K. (2017). The roles of phonological awareness and oral vocabulary knowledge in English-Chinese biliteracy acquisition among Chinese heritage language learners. Heritage Language Journal.
- Lü, C. (2016). Chinese reading development among young learners in a Chinese immersion program and a Chinese heritage language school. Teaching Chinese in the World, 30, 550-562. [美国沉浸式小学和中文学校学生的中文阅读习得的发展研究，《世界汉语教学》］
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Resources & Related Links
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)