Principal Publications


Books and journal special issues

Han, Z-H., Beccia, A., Creider, S., Lindhardsen, V., & Brinton, D. (2023). Special Issue. Teachers as researchers: Exploratory practice in Tunisian EFL classrooms. Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT), 23(2).

Han, Z-H. (2019) (Ed.) Profiling learner language as a dynamic system. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 

Han, Z-H. (2019). Special issue. Thirty-five years of instructed second language acquisition. Language Teaching Research, 23(4), 391-532. 

Ortega, L. & Han, Z-H. (Eds.) (2017). Complexity Theory and language development. In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Chang & Zhang's review in ELTJ [Peng & Ren's review in Applied Linguistics][Kostoulas' review on Linguist List]

Han, Z-H. & Rast, R. (Eds.) (2014). First exposure to a second language: Learners' initial input processing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [White's review in MLJ]

Han, Z-H. (Ed.) (2014). Studies in second language acquisition of Chinese. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. [Yang's review in JCLTA]

Han, Z-H. & Tarone, E. (Eds.) (2014). Interlanguage: Forty years later. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Adamson's review in SSLA] [Yasunaga's reivew in JALT]

Han, Z-H. & Cadierno, T. (Eds.) (2010). Linguistic relativity in second language acquisition: Thinking for speaking. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. [Alan Davies' review in Langauge Testing]

Han, Z-H. (2010). Fossilization in adult second language acquisition. India: Viva Books. [Reprint of Han (2004)] [Deepti Gupta's review]

Han, Z-H. & Anderson, N. (Eds.) (2009). Second language reading research and instruction: Crossing the boundaries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Amanda Lanier Temple's review]

Han, Z-H. (Ed.). (2008). Understanding second language process. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. [ In collaboration with Eun Sung Park, Andrea Revesz, Charles Combs, and Ji Hyun Kim] [Call's review in MLJ]

Han, Z-H. (2008). Fossilization in adult second language acquisition. Beijing: Foreign Language Research and Teaching Press. [Reprint of Han (2004)] [Xie Ang's review]

Han, Z-H & Odlin, T. (Eds.) (2006). Studies of fossilization in second language acquisition. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. [Rosette Finneran's review] [Rula Diab's review ] [Guangwei Hu's review]

Han, Z-H. (2004). Fossilization in adult second language acquisition. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. [Tom Scovel's review] [Robert J. Dickey's review] [Ozlem Pazvant's review] [Ashley Fidler's review in Second Langauge Research] [Jason Rothman's review] [Irit Kupferberg's review in SSLA]

 

Journal articles and book chapters

Han, Z-H. (in press). Editorial. ChatGPT in and for second language acquisition: A call for systematic research. Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Beccia, A., Lew, W.M., & Han, Z-H. (2024). Exploring co-adaptation in an ecosystem of dyadic interaction. Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 39, 125-144.

Han, Z-H., Beccia, A., Creider, S., Lindhardsen, V., & Brinton, D. (2023). Teachers as researchers: Exploratory practice in Tunisian EFL classrooms. Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 23(2), 1-10.

Han, Z-H. & Baohan, A. (2023). Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period stands. Brain and Language, 246, 105343.

Han, Z-H. & Bao, G. (2023). Critical period in second language acquisition: The age-attainment geometry. Frontiers in Physics. 11:1142584. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2023.1142584

Han, Z-H. (2023). In English Medium Instruction you can walk and chew gum. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1134982. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1134982 

Han, Z-H., Kang, E., and Sok, S. (2023). The complexity epistemology and ontology in second language acquisition: A critical review. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45, 1388-1412.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263122000420 

Han, Z-H. (2022). Issues of narrowness and staticity in ISLA. Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Https:// doi.org/10.1558/isla.19454.

Kang, E.Y. & Han, Z-H. (2022). Written corrective feedback: Short-term and long-term effects on language learning. In R. Manchon & C. Polio (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and writing (pp. 213-225). Routledge. 

Han, Z-H. (2021). Digital language learning and SLA. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Https://doi.org/ 10.1017/S1366728921000778

Han, Z-H. (2021). Corrective feedback from behaviorist and innatist perspectives. In H. Nassaji & E. Kartchava (eds). The Cambridge handbook of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching (pp. 23-43). Cambridge University Press.

Han, Z.H. (2020). Usage-based instruction, systems thinking, and the role of Language Mining in second language development. Language Teaching, 54(4), 502-517. Https://doi:10.1017/S0261444820000282

Sok, S. & Han, Z-H. (2020). A study of L2 vocabulary acquisition under incidental and intentional conditions. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics (VIAL), 17, 113-140.

Han, Z-H. & Sun, H. (2019). Training foreign language teachers of Chinese: Task-based learning in task-based teaching. TCSOL Studies, 4, 73-82.

Han, Z-H. & Liu, J.  (2019). Profiling learner language from a complex dynamic system perspective: An introduction. In Profiling learner language as a dynamic system. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.  

Han, Z-H. (2019). Researching CDST: Promises and pitfalls. In Profiling learner language as a dynamic system. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 

Kang, E.Y., Sok, S., & Han, Z-H. (2019). Thirty-five years of ISLA on form-focused instruction: A meta-analysis. Language Teaching Research, 23(4), 403-427.

Sok, S., Kang, E.Y., and Han, Z-H. (2019). Thirty-five years of ISLA on form-focused instruction: A methodological synthesis. Language Teaching Research, 23(4), 428-453. 

Han, Z-H. & Nassaji, H. (2019). Introduction: A snapshot of thirty-five years of ISLA.  Language Teaching Research, 23(4), 393-402.

Han, Z-H. (2018). Task-based learning in task-based teaching: Training teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 38, 162-186

Han, Z-H., & Kang, E.Y. (2018). Revisiting the Cognition Hypothesis: Bridging a gap between the conceptual and the empirical. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 28(3), 391-405.

Finneran, R. & Han, Z-H. (2018). Fossilization. In J.I.Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL encyclopedia of English language teaching. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

Ahmed, S. & Han, Z-H. (2018). Models of reading. In J.I.Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL encyclopedia of English language teaching. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

Han, Z-H., Bao, G., & Wiita, P. (2017). Energy conservation in SLA: The simplicity of a complex adaptive system. In L. Ortega & Z-H. Han (Eds.), Complexity theory and language development (pp. 210-231).  Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Ortega, L. & Han, Z-H. (2017). Introduction. In L.Ortega & Z-H. Han (Eds.), Complexity theory and language development (pp. 1-10). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Han, Z-H. (2017). The theoretical landscape of second language acquisition. In I. Keckskes & C. Sun (Eds.), Key issues in Chinese as a second language research (pp. 3-26). New York: Routledge. 

Han, Z-H. & Ekiert, M. (2017). Beyond focus on form: Giving learner meaning its proper place. Studies in Second Language Learning Research, 3(1), 1-12. 

Han, Z-H., Bao, G., & Wiita, P. (2017). Energy conservation: A theory of L2 ultimate attainment. International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL), 55(2), 133-164.

Han, Z-H. (2016). Research meets practice: Holding off and holding on. Chinese as a Second Language (Journal of CLTA), 51(3), 236-251. 

Han, Z-H. (2016). A "reimagined SLA" or an expanded SLA? A rejoinder to the Douglas Fir Group (2016). The Modern Language Journal, 100(4), 736-740. 

Ekiert, M & Han, Z.-H. (2016). L1-fraught difficulty: The case of L2 acquisition of English articles by Slavic speakers. In R. Alonso (Ed.), Crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition (pp. 147-172). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 

Han, Z-H. (2015). Striving for complementarity between narrative and meta-analytic reviews. Applied Linguistics, 36(3), 409-415. 

Kang, E.Y. & Han, Z.-H. (2015). The efficacy of written corrective feedback in improving L2 written accuracy: A meta-analysis. The Modern Language Journal, 99(1), 1-18.

Jung, J. Y., & Han, Z.-H. (2014). Effects of explicit focus on form on L2 acquisition of English passive construction. Contemporary Foreign Language Studies, 408(12), 18-31.

Han, Z-H. & Sun, Y. (2014). First exposure: A replication of Han & Peverly (2007). In Z-H. Han & R. Rast (Eds.), First exposure to a second language: Learners' initial input processing (pp.8-40). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

Han, Z-H. & Rast, R. (2014). Introduction: First exposure, input processing, and theorizing. In Z-H. Han & R. Rast (Eds.), First exposure to a second language: Learners' initial input processing (pp. 1-6). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Han, Z-H, & Maeng, J. (2014). Task-based language teaching of Chinese in a study abroad context: A learner perspective. In Z-H. Han (Ed.), Studies in second language acquisition of Chinese (pp. 80-102). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Han, Z-H. (2014). Epilogue: Bringing it all together: Where are we? In Studies in second language acquisition of Chinese (pp. 142-149). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Han, Z-H. (2014). From Julie to Wes to Alberto: Revisiting the construct of fossilization. In Z-H. Han and E. Tarone (Eds.),  Interlanguage: Forty years later (pp. 47-74). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Han, Z-H. & Tarone, E. (2014). Introduction. In Interlanguage: Forty years later (pp. 1-6). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Han, Z.-H., & Finneran, R. (2014). Re-engaging the interface debate: Strong, weak, none, or all? International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 24(3), 370-389.   <View Blackbox Videocast discussing this article>

Han, Z.-H. & Liu, J. (2013). Recasting the story of recasts. In L. R. Yang et al. (Eds.) SLA research in China (pp. 359-385). Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Han, Z-H., & Liu, Z.H. (2013). Input processing of Chinese by ab initio learners. Second Language Research, 29(2), 145-164.

Han, Z-H. (2013). State-of-the-art article: 40 years later - Updating the Fossilization Hypothesis. Language Teaching, 46(2), 133-171.

Han, Z-H. (2012). Input enhancement. In P. Robinson (Ed.), The Routledge encyclopedia of second language acquisition (pp.313-317). Blackwell Publishers.

Han, Z-H. & Cadierno, T. (2012). Linguistic relativity in second language acquisition. In P. Robinson (Ed.), The Routledge encyclopedia of second language acquisition (pp. 393-396). Blackwell Publishers.

Han, Z-H. (2012). Fossilization. In Chappelle, C. (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.

Han, Z.H. & Lew, W.M. (2012). Acquisitional complexity: What defies complete acquisition in SLA. In Szmrecsanyi, B., & Kortmann, B. (Eds.), Linguistic complexity in interlanguage varieties, L2 varieties, and contact languages (pp. 192-217). Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Han, Z. H. (2012). Second language acquisition. In J. Banks (Ed.), The encyclopedia of diversity in education (pp. 1910-1915). Sage Publications.

Han, Z.H. (2011). Fossilization - A classic concern of SLA research. In Gass, S. & Mackey, A. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition (pp. 476-490). New York: Routledge.

Han, Z-H. (2010). Fossilization: Five central issues. Reprinted in L. Ortega (Ed.), Second language acquisition (Critical concepts in linguistics). New York: Routledge.

Han, Z.-H. & Chen, C.L. (2010). Repeated-reading-based instructional strategy and vocabulary acquisition: A case study of a heritage speaker of Chinese. Reading in a Foreign Language, 22(2), 242-262.

Han, Z.-H. (2010). Grammatical morpheme inadequacy as a function of linguistic relativity: A longitudinal study. In Han, Z.-H. & Cadierno (Eds.), Linguistic relativity in second language acquisition: Thinking for speaking. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Han, Z.-H. (2009). Interlanguage and fossilization: Towards an analytic model. In V. Cook & L. Wei (Eds.), Contemporary applied linguistics (Vol. I: Language Teaching and Learning pp. 137-162). London: Continuum.

Han, Z-H., Anderson, N., & Freeman, D. (2009). Crossing the boundaries: An introduction. In Z-H. Han & N. Anderson (Eds.), Second language reading research and instruction: Crossing the boundaries. University of Michigan Press.

Han, Z-H. & D'Angelo, A. (2009). Balancing between extremes: Towards a dual approach to second language reading instruction. In Z-H. Han & N. Anderson (Eds.), Second language reading research and instruction: Crossing the boundaries (pp. 173-191). University of Michigan Press.

Han, Z-H., Park, E.S., & Combs, C. (2008). Textual enhancement of input: Issues and possibilities. Applied Linguistics, 29(4), 597-618.

Han, Z-H. & Kim, J. H. (2008). Corrective recasts: What teachers might want to know. Journal of Language Learning, 36(1), 35-44.

Kwon, E. Y., & Han, Z.-H. (2008). Language transfer in child SLA: A longitudinal case study of a sequential bilingual. In J. Philp, R. Oliver & A. Mackey (Eds.), Child's play? Second language acquisition and the younger learner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Han, Z-H. (2008). On the role of meaning in focus on form. In Understanding second language process (pp. 45-79). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Park, E. S., & Han, Z-H. (2008). Learner spontaneous attention in L2 input processing: An exploratory study In Z.-H. Han (Ed.), Understanding second language process. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Han, Z-H. (2007). Pedagogical implications: Genuine or pretentious? TESOL Quarterly, 41(2), 387-393.

Han, Z-H., & Peverly, S. (2007). Input processing: A study of ab initio learners with multilingual backgrounds. The International Journal of Multilingualism, 4(1), 17-37.

Gu, X. C., & Han, Z.-H. (2007). Task-based language teaching: A new pedagogic paradigm. In J. G. Ji & N. Jiang (Eds.), Applied linguistics. The People's University of China Press.

Kim, J. H., & Han, Z-H. (2007). Recasts in communicative EFL classes: Do teacher intent and learner interpretation overlap? . In A. Mackey (Ed.), Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A collection of empirical studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Han, Z-H. (2006). Fossilization: Can grammaticality judgment be a reliable source of evidence? In Z-H. Han & T. Odlin (Eds.), Studies of fossilization in second language acquisition (pp. 56-82). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Han, Z-H. & Odlin, T. (2006). Introduction. In Z-H. Han & T. Odlin (Eds.), Studies of fossilization in second language acquisition (pp. 1-20). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Revesz, A., & Han, Z-H. (2006). Task content familiarity, task type, and efficacy of recasts. Language Awareness, 15(3), 160-179.

Han, Z-H. & Selinker, L. (2005). Fossilization in L2 learners. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (pp. 455-70). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Han, Z-H. (2004).'To be a native speaker means not to be a non-native speaker.' Second Language Research, 20(2), 166-87.

Han, Z-H. (2004). Fossilization: Five central issues. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 14(2), 212-42.

Han, Z-H. (2003). Fossilization: From simplicity to complexity. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 6(2), 95-128.

Han, Z-H. (2002). A study of the impact of recasts on tense consistency in L2 output. TESOL Quarterly, 36(4), 543-72.

Han, Z-H. (2002). Rethinking the role of corrective feedback in communicative language teaching. RELC Journal, 33(1), 1-34. 

Han, Z-H. (2002). 'Novel unaccusatives': Is detransitivization taking place? ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 135-136, 97-124.

Han, Z-H., Iannotti, E., & Combs, C. (2002) Proposing a dual approach to teaching L2 reading. In C. Lin (Ed.), Proceedings of Tamkang international conference on TESOL (pp. 1-24). Taiwan: Tamkang University Press.

Han, Z-H.(2001). Integrating corrective feedback into communicative language teaching. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 5(3), 12-17.

Han, Z-H. (2001). Fine-tuning corrective feedback. Foreign Language Annals, 34(6), 582-99.

Selinker, L. & Han, Z-H. (2001). Fossilization: Moving the concept into empirical longitudinal study. In C. Elder, A. Brown, E. Grove, K. Hill, N. Iwashita, T. Lumley, T. McNamara & K. O'Loughlin (Eds.), Studies in language testing: Experimenting with uncertainty (pp. 276-91). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Han, Z-H. (2000). Persistence of the implicit influence of NL: The case of the pseudo-passive. Applied Linguistics, 21(1), 78-105.

Han, Z-H. & Selinker, L. (1999). Error resistance: Towards an empirical pedagogy. Language Teaching Research, 3(3), 248-75.

Han, Z-H. (1986). A tentative analysis of 'thinking in English'. In Li, X.J. (Ed.), Foreign language teaching (pp. 284-288). Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press. 

 

Book reviews

Han, Z.-H. (2008). Review of HÃ¥kan Ringbom (2007) Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30(3), 396-398.

Han, Z-H. (2007). Review of Francischina (2005) Fossilized Second Language Grammars. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29(4), 621-22.

Han, Z-H. (2004). Review of Cook (2003) Effects of the second language on the first. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26(3), 488-89.

Han, Z-H. (2003). Review of Grenfell (2001) Modern Languages across the Curriculum. Teachers College Record, 105(7), 1274-77.

Han, Z-H. (2001). Review of Grenfell & Harris (1999) Modern Languages and Learning Strategies inTheory and Practice. Language Teaching Research, 5(3), 270-73.



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