Congratulations to Jieyu Zhou, Graduate Medalist in the Humanities, Ph.D., Asian Languages and Literature. Jieyu Zhou’s research focuses on “collocations” — word combinations that are natural for native speakers of a language but may be less obvious for second language learners. (Why “fast food” but not “quick food”?) Her dissertation explores how advanced-level second language learners of Chinese process collocations, which are critical to promoting fluency in a second language.
Zhou has also excelled at teaching. She has been an instructor or co-instructor for UW Chinese language courses since 2020 and received her department’s Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award in 2021.
