Publications

  • Books:

    • Duff, P. and D Li, (eds.) (2009) “Indigenous, Minority, and Heritage Language Education in Canada”. Canadian Modern Language Review, Special Issue. 66(1)
    • Li, D. and Liu, I. (2009) Reading Into a New China. Vol. 2. Cheng& Tsui Company, Boston.
    • Li, D. and Liu, I. (2009) Reading Into a New China. Vol. 1. Cheng& Tsui Company, Boston.
    • Li, D., Liu, I. , Liu, L., Wang, H., Wang, Z. and Xie, Y. (2004) A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Simplified Character Version). Vol. 1. Columbia University Press, New York.
    • Li, D., Liu, I. , Liu, L., Wang, H., Wang, Z. and Xie, Y. (2004) A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Simplified Character Version). Vol. 2. Columbia University Press, New York.
    • Li, D., Liu, I. , Liu, L., Wang, H., Wang, Z. and Xie, Y. (2003) A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Traditional Character Version). Vol.1. Columbia University Press, New York.
    • Li, D., Liu, I. , Liu, L., Wang, H., Wang, Z. and Xie, Y. (2003) A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Traditional Character Version). Vol.2. Columbia University Press, New York.
    • Li, D. and Xie, Y. (2002) Chinese Vocabulary. McGraw-Hill , New York.

  • Refereed Articles: 

    • Duff, P. & Li, D. (in press). Rethinking heritage languages: Ideologies, practices, and priorities in Canada and China. In P. Trifonas & T. Aravossitas (Eds.), Rethinking heritage language education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Li, D., & Duff, P. (2014). Chinese language learning by adolescents and young adults in the Chinese diaspora: Motivation, ethnicity, and identity. In X. L. Curdt-Christiansen & A. Hancock (Eds.), Learning Chinese in diasporic communities: Many pathways to becoming Chinese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    • Duff, P., & Li, D. (submission pending). The push and pull of minority-language maintenance and Chinese-English bilingualism in multilingual communities in China.Duff, P. & Li, D. (2013). Learning Chinese as a heritage language. In C. Mady & K. Arnett (Eds.), Minority populations in second language education: Broadening the lens from Canada (pp. 87-100) Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
    • Li, D. (2012). Pragmatic Socialization in Language Acquisition. In Carol Chapelle (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.  Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Duff, P. & Li, D. (2009). Indigenous, Minority, and Heritage Language Education in Canada: Policies, Contexts, and Issues.” Canadian Modern Language Reivew. 66(1) 1-8.
    • Li, D. (2008). “Pragmatic Socialization “. In Duff, P. & N. Hornberger (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Language and Education Volume 8: Language Socialization. Norwell , MA 02061: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    • Li, D. & P. Duff. (2008) “Issues in Chinese Heritage Language Education and Research at the Post-secondary Level “. In A. He and Y. Xiao (Eds.). Chinese as a Heritage Language . Honolulu : National Foreign Language Resource Center , University of Hawai`i , 2 – 32.
    • Duff, P. and Li, D. (2004) Issues in Mandarin Language Instruction: Theory, Research and Practice. System, 32, pp.443-456.
    • Duff, P. and Li, D. (2002) The Acquisition and Use of Perfective Aspect in Mandarin. in R. Salaberry & Y. Shirai (Eds.), Tense-aspect morphology in L2 acquisition (pp. 417-453). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    • Li, D. (2000) The Pragmatics of Making Requests in the L2 [Second Language] Workplace: A Case Study of Language Socialization. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 57, pp. 58-87.
    • Li, D. (1990) Language Transfer and Cross-cultural Communication. Journal of Hunan University, Vol. 3
    • Li, D. (1987) Conflict between Transcendentalism and Puritanism in Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter. Journal of Hunan Institute of Education, Vol. 2.