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Jun Hui Yang

Address University of Central Lancashire Livesey House 221 Preston, PR1 2HE Telephone +44 (0)1772-892251 Position Lecturer in Deaf Studies Email jyang9@uclan.ac.uk

Junhui is a lecturer in Deaf Studies. She received a PhD in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University in 2006. During her post-graduate studies, she taught pedagogy and sign language courses at Gallaudet University and NTID/RIT. She also worked as a Chinese Sign Language researcher in the Sign Language Typology Group at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmgen, Netherlands for 1 year. Her research interests includes the structure of signed languages, language contact between signed language and oral/written language, bilingual education of deaf students, and historical socio-cultural studies of Deaf communities.

Selected Publications

Lytle, R. R., Johnson, K. E., & Yang, J. H. (2005/2006). Deaf Education in China: History, Current Issues and Emerging Deaf Voices. American Annuals of the Deaf, 150(5), 457-469.

Yang, J. H. (in press). Sign Language and Oral/Written Language in Deaf Education in China. In  C. Plaza-Pust  & E. Morales-López (eds), Sign Bilingualism: Language Development, Interaction, and Maintenance in Sign Language Contact Situations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Yang, J.H. (2006). Deaf Teachers in China: Their perceptions regarding their roles and the barriers they face. PhD. Dissertation. Gallaudet University.

Yang, J.H. (2005). Liangzhong yuyan liangzhongwenhua de pengzhuang [Bilingual and bicultural experiences], in J. Chen (ed.), Longren xuexi yuyan fangfa [Deaf people’s language learning approaches], 1-5.  Beijing: Drama Publishing House.

Yang, J. H. & Fischer, S. D. (2002). Expressing negation in Chinese Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics, 5 (2), 167-202. Amsterdam: John Benjemins Publishing Co.

Yang, J. H. (2002). An introduction to CSL/Chinese bilingual education. Chinese Journal of Special Education, 33. 23-27.