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Congratulations to Jieyu Zhou<\/strong>, Graduate Medalist in the Humanities, Ph.D., Asian Languages and Literature. Jieyu Zhou\u2019s research focuses on \u201ccollocations\u201d \u2014 word combinations that are natural for native speakers of a language but may be less obvious for second language learners. (Why \u201cfast food\u201d but not \u201cquick food\u201d?) Her dissertation explores how advanced-level second language learners of Chinese process collocations, which are critical to promoting fluency in a second language.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award in 2021.<\/p>\n

\"Ph.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Jieyu Zhou, Graduate Medalist in the Humanities, Ph.D., Asian Languages and Literature. Jieyu Zhou\u2019s research focuses on \u201ccollocations\u201d \u2014 word combinations that are natural for native speakers of a language but may be less obvious for second language learners. (Why \u201cfast food\u201d but not \u201cquick food\u201d?) Her dissertation explores how advanced-level second language<\/p>\n

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