Weifeng Han

Dr Han has full academic status at Flinders University and is currently a lecturer at Federation University. He has been involved in syntactic and corpus linguistics studies for over 15 years. His first PhD was in theoretical syntax, and the second PhD in Speech Language Pathology studied L1 multidialectal learners’ L2 acquisition at the syntaxsemantics interface and its implication on separating language disorders from language differences.

Dr Han was a post-doctoral research fellow in syntax in Hong Kong and a visiting professor in corpus linguistics in Canada. He is familiar with mixed-method research. He has published four research books, one in syntactic typology and the others in second language lexical and syntactic acquisition. He has authored/co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles in syntax, corpus linguistics and second language acquisition. Dr Han also co-authored a vignette in the CRAN Project (R) and a spoken corpus in Wu. He has also presented in Australia, Canada, the US, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the West Indies and Mainland China on topics of syntax and corpus linguistics in their interface with second language acquisition.