Zhiyuan (Dingo) Deng

Graduate Student, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Graduate Student, Second Language Acquisition

zdeng1@umd.edu

Zhiyuan joined the Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition in Fall 2017. He received his MA in Applied Second Language Acquisition from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest includes second language lexical and phonological processing, and cross-linguistic influence.

Second Language Acquisition Students Awarded Seven Dissertation Grants

Three SLA graduate students have been awarded a total of seven dissertation grants, totaling more than $25,000.

Second Language Acquisition | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Author/Lead: Jonathan Malone, Takehiro Iizuka, Zhiyuan (Dingo) Deng

Dates: Thursday, January 11, 2024 - 12:00
Award Organization:

Language Learning Dissertation Grant, TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Duolingo Dissertation Award, TOEFL Grant for Doctoral Research in Language Assessment

Jon Malone, Takehiro Iizuka and Zhiyan Deng have been awarded a total of seven dissertation grants, totaling more than $25,000.

Malone received the prestigious Language Learning Dissertation Grant, the TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant and the Duolingo Dissertation Award. His dissertation project uses eye-tracking technology to investigate how second language learners acquire vocabulary through reading while listening.

Iizuka, supported by the TOEFL Grant for Doctoral Research in Language Assessment and the Duolingo Doctoral Dissertation Award, examines the extent to which spoken and written vocabulary can be distinguished from each other from a measurement point of view, as well as their role in predicting listening and reading comprehension performance, respectively.

Deng was awarded both the TOEFL Grant for Doctoral Research in Language Assessment and the Duolingo Doctoral Dissertation Award.

All three students are using the support for their research expenses.