ZhaoHong Han

List of John Benjamins publications in which ZhaoHong Han is involved.

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Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman

Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] 2017. xv, 234 pp.

Interlanguage: Forty years later

Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 39] 2014. vii, 255 pp.

Han, ZhaoHong, Gang Bao and Paul Wiita 2017 Chapter 10. Energy conservation in SLA: The simplicity of a complex adaptive system Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ortega, Lourdes and ZhaoHong Han (eds.), pp. 209–232 | Chapter

This chapter takes a system view on second language (L2) development. However, unlike proponents of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) viewing the developmental system as ever dynamic without a finite state, we take up a long-standing observation about a signature L2 phenomenon, inter-learner… read more

Ortega, Lourdes and ZhaoHong Han 2017 Introduction Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ortega, Lourdes and ZhaoHong Han (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter

Han, ZhaoHong 2016 Research meets practice: Holding off and holding on Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:3, pp. 236–251 | Article

At the recent CLTA-S2 conference, a spirited debate occurred between critics of second language acquisition (SLA) research and researchers who embraced it. Fascinating as it was, neither camp appeared to have convinced the other, but, more important, the debate left much of the audience flummoxed. read more

Han, ZhaoHong 2014 Chapter 3. From Julie to Wes to Alberto: Revisiting the construct of fossilization Interlanguage: Forty years later, Han, ZhaoHong and Elaine Tarone (eds.), pp. 47–74 | Chapter

This chapter revisits the construct of fossilization, the bedrock of Selinker’s (1972) Interlanguage Hypothesis. After reviewing the early conception of fossilization, I focus my discussion on intra-learner, and to a lesser extent, inter-learner differential success or failure, arguing that… read more

Han, ZhaoHong and Elaine Tarone 2014 Introduction Interlanguage: Forty years later, Han, ZhaoHong and Elaine Tarone (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction

Kwon, Eun-Young and ZhaoHong Han 2008 Language transfer in child SLA: A longitudinal case study of a sequential bilingual Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?, Philp, Jenefer, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey (eds.), pp. 303–331 | Article

In this chapter we report on a 26-month longitudinal study of a Korean-speaking child acquiring L2 English in the United States (AoA: 3;6). Focusing on negation, plural, and possessive marking, we examined the nature of language transfer as a function of changes occurring in the participant’s L1… read more

Han, ZhaoHong 2002 'Novel unaccusatives': Is detransitivization taking place? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 135/136, pp. 97–124 | Article

Interlanguage 'novel unaccusative' (term borrowed from BALCOM 1997) has been a subject of investigation since the late 1970s, though it has usually been discussed under the terms of an interlanguage syntactic structure called the 'pseudo-passive' (e.g., SCHACHTER & RUTHERFORD 1979; RUTHERFORD… read more