Professor of Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics

Department of English Language and Literature

School of Foreign Language Studies

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Research Fields:

Psycholinguistic research, second language acquisition, and bilingual processing, language cognition and brain mechanism. Current research projects include age of acquisition effects for Chinese native learners of English, neuro-cognitive process in consecutive interpretation.

Education:

Ph. D. 2008, Beijing Normal University

Selected Publications and Research Grants:

Jin Xue has extensive research on Chinese-English bilingual language acquisition and processing.

Grants

2019.11 — present: Social Science Foundation of Beijing, China: Cognitive control in consecutive interpreting and intervention (19YYB008)

2019.1 — 2019.12：American English Testing Center:7th annual TOEFL® English-language Researcher/Practitioner Grant Program (Chair)

2018.9 — 2019.12: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University：Specific language impairment in the Chinese native context (FRF-BR-18-005A) (Chair)

2016.9 — 2020.06：National Social Science Foundation of China: Age of acquisition effects, patterns and neural mechanism for Chinese native learners of English (16BYY077) (Chair)

2012.9 — 2015.10: National Social Science Foundation of China: Diagnosis and intervention on English reading difficulties for Chinese University Students (12CYY027) (Chair)

2011.1 — 2014.3: Humanities and Social Sciences project of the Ministry of Education of P. R. China: English learners reading difficulties: Performance and causes (10YJCZH194) (Chair)

2014.12—2016.6:Social Science Foundation of Beijing, China: The relationship between L2 age of acquisition and learning outcome for Beijing children (14WYC042）(Chair)

2013: Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (YETP1518）(Chair)

Publications

Peer-review journal papers

Xue, J. et al. Onset age of language acquisition effects in a foreign language context: Evidence from Chinese-English bilingual children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019. doi.org/10.1007/s10936-019-09637-y(SSCI)

Xue, J. et al. Prosodic features of English production and the AoA effect for Chinese primary schoolers: Evidence from an acoustic analysis. Foreign Language World, 2019, 3：46（in Chinese, CSSCI）

Xue, J. et al. Prosodic Features of English Production and the AoA Effect，Foreign Language Research, 2019，6：79-86（in Chinese, CSSCI）

Xue, J., et al. Age of acquisition effects on word processing for Chinese native learners’English: ERP evidence for the arbitrary mapping hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology (Section Language Sciences)，2017，8(818)1-13. DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.000818(SSCI)

Xue, Jin & Jiang, Xiaoming.（2017）.The developmental relationship between bilingual morphological awareness and reading for Chinese EFL adult learners: a longitudinal study. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal,30(2),417-438, DOI 10.1007/s11145-016-9683-3 （SSCI）

Xue, Jin & Zheng, Xiao Yan. (2016). The relationship between reading and metacognitive development: An intervention study on Chinese native learners of English. Aussie-Sino Studies, 2(1), 55-61

Xue, J., et al. (2015). The linguistic context effects on the processing of Body-Object Interaction words: an ERP study on second language learners. Brain Research, 1613,37-48. (SCI)

Yang, Jie & Xue, Jin. (2015). Reality/Fiction Distinction and Fiction/Fiction Distinction during Sentence Comprehension. Universal Journal of Psychology, 3, 165 - 175. doi: 10.13189/ujp.2015.030603.

Xue, J. et al. (2014). Chinese–English bilinguals processing temporal–spatial metaphor. Cognitive Processing，15(3)：269-281.(SCI, SSCI)

Yang, J. & Xue, J. (2014). Distinguishing different fictional worlds during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence，Psychophysiology, (51), 42-51.(SCI)

Xue, J. (2013). A review: Norbert Francis. Bilingual Development and Literacy Learning: East Asian and International Perspectives.，Language Problems and Language Planning, 37(3),298-300. (SSCI)

Xue, J., et al. (2013). The Stability of Literacy-Related Cognitive Contributions to Chinese Character Naming and Reading Fluency，Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 42(5), 433-450.(SSCI)

Xue, J. et al. (2013). An ERP study on Chinese natives’ second language syntactic grammaticalization，Neuroscience Letters, 534, 258-263.(SCI)

Yang, Jie，Xue, Jin. (2011). Spatial metaphor processing during temporal sequencing comprehension，Experimental Brain Research, 213(4),475-491.(SCI)

Monographs

Xue, J. (2020). Development of English Reading and Cognitive Skills in the Chinese Native Context. Beijing: Beijing Normal University.

Xue, J. (2019). A Contrastive Study on Chinese and English. Shantou：Shantou University Press.

Xue, J. (2017). Chinese-English Bilingual Reading: Influencing Factors, Reading Difficulties Prediction and Intervention. Guanzhou: World Publishing Corporation

Xue, J. (2016).Second Language Acquisition：With an Insight into Chinese Native Learners of English. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.

Xue, J. (2014). English learners reading difficulties: Performance and causes. Beijing: World Publishing Corporation.

Xue, J. (2011). Bilingual reading: From perspective of Psycholinguistics. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.

Xue, J. (2009). Cognitive study on Reading. Shenyang: Shenyang Press.

Textbooks

Co-editor. (2014). Selections of English Writing. Beijing: Tourism Education Press.

Translation books

Xue, J. & Wu, Z.Q. (Translators). (2007). Jukes,Adam. Why men hate women. Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press.（260000 words）