My research interests broadly lie at the intersection of Chinese Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. Some of the specific topics I am interested in recently are:
Avoidance in L2 Learning
Acceptability vs Grammaticality
L2 Lexical Representation and Development
Theme-Based Teaching vs Drill Practice
I currently serve as the co-chair of the Junior Editorial Board of International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching.
Yuxiao Du & Fangzheng Zhang. (2025). Avoidance in Chinese Grammar Acquisition: Pedagogical Mechanisms and Interventions [中文语法习得中的回避现象——教学层面的发生机制及应对策略] (currently under review)
Pan Jiang & Yuxiao Du. (2024). Li Jieren’s “River Fiction Trilogy” and the scene, ritual, and spatial concepts of vernacular architecture in the Ba and Shu region: With thoughts on the role of local fictions in the study of vernacular architecture [“大河三部曲”与巴蜀风土建筑的空间观念—兼论地方小说在风土建筑研究中的作用]. Architectural Journal, (665), 114-119.
Fangzheng Zhang & Yuxiao Du*. (2023). Students’ willingness to communicate in the online synchronous one-on-one foreign language classroom. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 4(3), 94-108.
Yuxiao Du & Fangzheng Zhang. (2022). Examinees’ affective preference for online speaking assessment: Synchronous VS asynchronous. Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology, 5(1), 29-46.
Yuxiao Du (2023). Integrating culture into elementary Chinese instruction: Introduction, interaction, and interest cultivation. In Ji’e Zheng, Jing-hua Yin, & Mingliang Hu (Eds.), Selected papers of the 16th international conference on Chinese pedagogy (pp. 17-26). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Three chapters of Yuan, Z. (Eds.). (2020). Handbook of Social Justice in Education. [教育社会公平手册] (C. Zhang et al., Trans.). East China Normal University Press. (Original work published 2009)
Hall, H. R. (2009). Tensions, ironies, and social justice in black civil rights: Lessons from Brown and King.
Tikly, L., & Dachi, H. (2009). Social justice in African education in the age of globalization.
Allen, R. L. (2009). What about poor White people?