Jie Gao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jie Gao is involved.
Articles
2025 Designing L2 pronunciation instruction activities for primary school learners: A content analysis of ELT textbooks used in China Language Teaching for Young Learners 7:1, pp. 29–61 | Article
This study employs a content analysis approach to examine the presentation of pronunciation instruction (PI) activities in six elementary school English language teaching (ELT) textbook series used in China. Among the textbooks analyzed, two series are published in English-speaking countries for… read more
2022 Chapter 9. L2 speaking: Theory and research Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations, Jeon, Eun Hee and Yo In'nami (eds.), pp. 285–306 | Chapter
This chapter unpacks L2 speaking theories through a cognitive approach, where models such as the Blueprint (Levelt, 1989) and the bilingual speech model of Kormos (2006) are used to explain speech production. From the perspective of language testing and assessment, we further discuss fluency and… read more