Yunwen Su

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Associate Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Recent Publications

Su, Y., Dai, D. W., & Meng, Y. (2026). Digitally Empowered Assessment of Interactional Competence in a Second Language. Language Learning. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.70050

Su, Y., & Chen, X. (2026). Second Language Interactional Competence in Roleplay: Comparing Generative Artificial Intelligence and Human Interlocutors. Language Learning. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.70040

Chen, X., & Su, Y. (2025). Modesty differs between historical and modern Chinese: A computational analysis of modesty metalinguistics. Language Sciences, 110, Article 101729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101729

Su, Y. (2025). Teaching Perspectives: Chinese. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 11(1), 140-143. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.25008.su

Bardovi-Harlig, K., & Su, Y. (2024). Implementing discourse-gating tasks to study the timing of speech act recognition. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3(3), Article 100122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100122

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