Nan Jiang

Nan Jiang received his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University in 1998-1999, and taught at Auburn University and Georgia State University before joining the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMD as an associate professor of SLA. His main research interest involves the study of cognitive/psycholinguistic processes and mechanisms involved in adult second language acquisition. Specific topics include bilingual language processing, lexical representation and development in L2, language transfer, the integration of linguistic knowledge in adult L2 learning, and the relationship between language and thought. His research is mostly lab-based and has appeared in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Memory and Language. He is the author of Conducting Reaction Time Research in Second Language Studies (Routledge, 2012), Second Language Processing: An Introduction (Routledge, 2018), and The Study of Bilingual Language Processing (OUP, 2023).

Recent Publications

• Zhou, Y., & Jiang, N. (2026). Analytic word recognition among L2 speakers: Evidence from character recognition among CSL speakers. Acta Psychologica, 262, 106077.
• Jiang, N., Wu, Z., & Zhou, Y. (2025). Analytic visual word recognition in L2 learners: evidence from the length effect among ESL speakers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e33.
• Jia, R., & Jiang, N. (2025). Examining strength of L2 form-meaning connection: A study of intralingual L2 semantic priming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100667
• Park, K., Gor, K., & Jiang, N. (2025). Are L2 orthographic representations fuzzy? Effects of word frequency and spelling proficiency on orthographic priming in L1 and L2. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e17.
• Hao, Y., Wu, C., & Jiang, N. (2024). Is the comprehension of sentences in Mandarin affected by temporal order relationships? Modern Foreign Languages, 47(3), 331-342. https://link.cnki.net/urlid/44.1165.H.20240328.1315.008. (郝瑜鑫，吴辰禧，蒋楠，时间顺序影响汉语句子理解吗？《现代外语》2024年第三期，第331-342页)
• Zhang, N., Ren, J., Wang, M., & Jiang, N. (2024). Automatic phonological access among bilinguals with cross-script languages. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(7), 1399-1417. 17470218231198500.
• Jiang, N. (2023). The Study of Bilingual Language Processing. Oxford University Press.
• Feng, L., & Jiang, N. (2023). Prediction error cost exists in the reading processing of Chinese native speakers and advanced Chinese L2 learners. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1134229.
• Zhou, Y. & Jiang, N. (2023). A study of L2 Chinese learners' processing patterns in visual word recognition. World Chinese Teaching, 37, 111-126. (周颖，蒋楠， 汉语二语学习者双字词加工方式研究，《世界汉语教学》2023年第一期第111-126页）
• Jiang, N. (2023). Overview: Research methods in L2 psycholinguistics. In A. Godfroid & H. Hopp (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (pp. 178-187). Routledge.
• Ahn, S. & Jiang, N. (2022). Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221131256
• Jiang, N. & Feng, L. (2022). Analytic visual word recognition among Chinese L2 learners. Foreign Language Annals. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12604.
• Jiang, N. & Wu, X. (2022). Orthographic priming in a second language. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12488.
• Jiang, N. (2021). Orthographic friends and lexical strangers in the L2 lexicon. Journal of Second Language Studies, 4, 224-244
• Struck, J. & Jiang, N. (2021). Language switch costs in a lexical decision task: Symmetry and cognitive correlates. Second Language Research.
• Jiang, N. & Zhang, J. (2021). Form prominence in the L2 lexicon: further evidence from word association. Second Language Research, 37, 69–90. pdf
• Jiang, N. (2021). The role of L1 in L2 word recognition: a case for case. Journal of Second Language Studies, 4,  1–18.
• Jiang, N., Hou, F., & Jiang, X. (2020). Analytic versus holistic recognition of Chinese words among L2 learners. The Modern Language Journal, 104, 567-580. pdf
• Jiang, N., Li, M., Guo, T. (2020). A tale of two frequency effects: toward a verification model of L2 word recognition. Applied Psycholinguistics, 41, 215-236. pdf