PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Paul, Jing & Haris Haq (2022, January). Exploring critical pedagogy for L2 beginners: A case study of social justice in writing. Hawai‘i International Conference on Chinese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Virtual Event.
Tunç, Yasin & Jing Paul (2021, April). The (im)possibility of teaching culture(s) in world language pedagogy: Towards a democratic communicative competence? Comparative & International Education Society 65th Annual Conference, Virtual Event.
Li, Xian (Jan), Jing Paul & Eric Friginal (2020, October). Mobile-assisted language learning and translanguaging practices in a short-term immersive Chinese program. Second Language Research Forum 2020, Vanderbilt University Virtual Conference.
Paul, Jing, Şeyda Özçalışkan & Samantha N. Emerson (2020, January). Dialect-based variability in the expression of motion in Chinese. 2020 Hawai‘i International Conference on Chinese Studies, Honolulu, HI.
Tunç, Yasin & Jing Paul (2019, November). Lost in Translation: The predicament of world language teachers in practicing within/across cultures/languages. South Atlantic Modern Language Association 90 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Paul, Jing & Joseph E. Reed (2019, September). Creatively using drumming in teaching Chinese—a hands-on workshop. Georgia Conference on the Teaching of Chinese in Grades K-16, Dunwoody, Georgia.
Paul, Jing & Jack A. Hardy (2018, November). Perspectives on teaching Chinese grammar. South Atlantic Modern Language Association 90 Conference, Birmingham, Alabama.
Lupyan, Gary, Ashley Wendorf, Luis Miguel Berscia & Jing Paul (2018, April). Core Knowledge or language-augmented cognition? The case of geometric reasoning. Evolution of language International Conference XII, Toruń, Poland.
Paul, Jing, Jack A. Hardy & Hong Li (2018, March). Perspectives on teaching Chinese grammar. American Association for Applied Linguistics 2018 Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Paul, Jing (2018, March). The rhythm of language: integrating drumming into language teaching. 2018 Southern Conference on Language Teaching, Atlanta, GA.
Paul, Jing (2017, November). The Chinese BA construction: An example using the PACE method. The South Atlantic Modern Language Association 89th Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Paul, Jing (2016, October). Drumming, creative writing, and interactive stories in language teaching. 2016 Georgia TESOL Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2016, April). Do you push or roll a ball? Concerns in expressing manner of motion events in L2 Chinese. The National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages “Sharing Solutions for Common Problems” 2016 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2016, April). The role of prior knowledge in learning Chinese classifiers. The 2016 Chinese Language Teachers Association Second International Symposium on Chinese Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Paul, Jing, Yu-Ning Lai & Elinore Fresh (2015, November). The use of social media in Chinese language learning: Facebook and Twitter. The Chinese Language Teachers Association Meeting, in conjunction with the annual convention and workshops of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), San Diego, California.
Paul, Jing, Yu-Ning Lai & Elinore Fresh (2015, October). The effects of symmetric and asymmetric social networks on second language communication. The 34th annual Second Language Research Forum: Application, Context, & Language Use, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Zettersten, Martin, Jing Paul & Gary Lupyan (2015, October). Language augments relational reasoning. The Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, Ohio.
Perlman, Marcus, Jing Paul & Gary Lupyan (2015, September). Congenitally deaf children generate iconic vocalizations to communicate magnitude. The Protolang: Ways to (Proto)language Conference Series 2015, Rome, Italy.
Perlman, Marcus, Jing Paul & Gary Lupyan (2015, July). Congenitally deaf children generate iconic vocalizations to communicate magnitude. COGSCI 2015: Mind, Technology & Society, the 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Pasadena, California.
Paul, Jing (2015, February). A socio-cognitive analysis of a Chinese language summer camp. The Fifth Annual Alabama Modern Language Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Paul, Jing (2014, November). The order effect in learning Chinese classifiers. The Chinese Language Teachers Association Meeting, in conjunction with the annual convention and workshops of ACTFL, San Antonio, Texas.
Paul, Jing & Theres Grüter (2014, October). Order-of-acquisition effects in the learning of Chinese classifiers. Second Language Research Forum 2014: Theory Meets Practice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
Paul, Jing & Dongping Zheng (2014, June). Rethinking the current approaches in Chinese language teaching. The 12th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China.
Paul, Jing (2014, April). What should we teach first: Words or sentences? The 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature: “Your Voice, My Voice, Literature, Culture and Society,” University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Paul, Jing & Dongping Zheng (2014, February). How to enrich communicative language teaching? The Hawai’i Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference 2014: Weaving Language and Culture, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Paul, Jing (2013, November). Expressing different-trajectory caused motion events in L2 Chinese. The Chinese Language Teachers Association Meeting, in conjunction with the annual convention and workshops of ACTFL, Orlando, Florida.
Paul, Jing (2013, June). How to give a hand? Using deictic gestures in teaching Chinese topic-comment sentences. The 11th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy, Chengdu, China.
Paul, Jing (2013, April). Expressions of caused motion events: The case of L2 Chinese learners. The 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature: “Engaged Research: Language and Society; Linguistics and Communication,” University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Paul, Jing (2013, April). Where your hand falls makes a difference: Gesture use in teaching 3-dimensional motion events in Chinese. The 27th Annual Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers Conference. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Paul, Jing (2012, November). Deictic gestures in learning Chinese topic-comment sentences. The Chinese Language Teachers Association Meeting, in conjunction with the annual convention and workshops of ACTFL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Paul, Jing (2012, April). The charm of a new series of publications: Helping you gain access to Chinese language and culture. The 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: Language and Community, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Paul, Jing (2012, March). Energy conservation and recycling: Do they matter in language classes? The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
INVITED WORKSHOPS & TALKS
Tunç, Yasin & Jing Paul (2021, October). The power of demo lessons. STARTALK 2021 Fall Virtual Conference.
Paul, Jing, Michaela Nuesser & Jin Dong (2020, November). Embodied learners in a situated environment: An ecological psychology perspective in online language learning. The South Atlantic Modern Language Association 92nd Virtual Conference.
Paul, Jing & Jack A. Hardy (2018, November). Perspectives on teaching Chinese grammar. The South Atlantic Modern Language Association 90th Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Paul, Jing (2017, November). Cultural theme implementation: An example in integrating music into language learning. STARTALK 2017 Fall Conference, Portland, Oregon.
Paul, Jing, Samantha N. Emerson & Şeyda Özçalışkan (2017, November). Dialect-based variability in the expression of motion in Chinese. Invited panel presentation at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 89th Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Coropceanu, Lilia, Jing Paul, Yu Li (2017, March). Guided induction approach in teaching grammar. Invited workshop at the Teaching and Learning Second Languages as a Process of Discovery conference, the Emory College Language Center & Confucius Institute in Atlanta, Emory University, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2016, October). Drumming, creative writing, and interactive stories in language teaching. Invited workshop at the 2016 Georgia TESOL Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. (the workshop was first conducted as a referred session, but repeated as an invited session due to its popularity)
Paul, Jing (2014, June). The age effect in second language acquisition. Invited talk at the School of Foreign Language Studies, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
PEER-REVIEWED POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Paul, Jing (2018, October). Using 360-degree virtual reality videos to reflect on learner-centered instruction. The 2018 STARTALK fall conference, Houston, Texas.
Paul, Jing, Elinore Fresh & Yu-Ning Lai (2016, April). The effects of symmetric and asymmetric social networks on second language communication. The 2016 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Orlando, Florida.
Paul, Jing (2016, March). Mandarin Chinese and a Southwestern Mandarin dialect display different topological properties in describing different-trajectory caused motion events. The 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Zettersten, Martin, Jing Paul & Gary Lupyan (2015, March). Language augments relational reasoning: The effect of late exposure to a standardized language. The 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Paul, Jing & Theres Grüter (2014, November). Order-of-acquisition effects in the learning of Chinese classifiers. The 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Massachusetts.
CAMPUS TALKS
Paul, Jing (2020, December). Presented a teaching demo in the Online Faculty Teaching Showcase event, Center for Teaching & Learning, Agnes Scott College, Virtual Event.
Paul, Jing (2020, October). Presented a teaching demo to share my winning, innovative online teaching method recognized by the Faith Chao ’61 Award for Faculty Excellence, Agnes Scott College, Virtual Event.
Paul, Jing (2019, April). Presented the language teaching methodologies in Asian Studies program as part of the “Languages and cultures across the curriculum” panel on the Inauguration Day of the College President, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2019, February). The basics of the Chinese Language. Global Study Tour China class, SUMMIT, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2017, October). Chinese language: time & space. Linguistic Anthropology class, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2017, September). Associative Learning: Prior experience determines what gets learned in a new learning session. Invited talk at the Academic Colloquia & Monthly Exchange series, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2017, February). Creating interactive digital stories, classic “Jeopardy!” games and self-designed Videos. Center for Digital and Visual Literary & Educational Psychology “Digital Pedagogy Series,” Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2016, April). Chinese language and linguistics. Linguistic Anthropology class, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
Paul, Jing (2014, April). Typological concerns of natural languages in describing motion events: The case of Chinese. The Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Paul, Jing (2014, April). What should we teach first: Word or sentences? The Language Acquisition Reading Group Weekly Meeting, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.