Zhu awarded Love of Learning Award from Phi Kappa Phi

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Junling Zhu, a PhD candidate and teaching associate at UMass Amherst, was recently awarded a Love of Learning Award from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Since beginning her PhD program in Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies, Zhu has developed strong interests in Language Ideologies, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Multiliteracy and Multimodality, and Second Language Acquisition, especially the sociocultural theory orientation and the ecological and critical orientations of teaching language and culture, as it applies to the teaching and learning of Chinese and English as a world language.

She has presented and will present her research independently in leading conferences in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Education, including the 2018, 2021, 2023, and 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Meetings, as well as the 2021and 2023 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meetings.

Additionally, Zhu has published her work in the fields of Teaching Chinese as World Language, Teaching English as a Second Language, as well as Chinese Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, including “Critical literature review on teaching Chinese as a world language in the context of globalization,” “Promoting conceptual development of the second conditional in the classroom zone of proximal development,” and “Lexical diffusion in sound changes in the dialect of Dongfeng migrant community of Linyi city.”

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