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Longxing Wei
Professor, Linguistics, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Office:
- Conrad J. Schmitt Hall 240A
- Email:
- weil@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-7501
- Degrees:
- BA, Shanghai Teachers' University (China)
- MA, East China Normal University
- MA, University of Colorado at Boulder
- PhD, University of South Carolina
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Dr. Longxing Wei’s research interests include contact linguistics, the bilingual mental lexicon, codeswitching, interlanguage, second language acquisition, and literary stylistics. His recent books are Interlanguage: The Abstract Level in Language Acquisition, The Bilingual Mental Lexicon, and Language Contact and Linguistic Aspects of Bilingualism. He has published widely on interlanguage development, sociolinguistic and linguistic motivations for codeswitching, bilingualism, multilingualism, second language acquisition, linguistic outcomes of language contact, and stylistics of English literary works. He teaches courses including Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Advanced Structure of American English, Research Design in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Languages in Contact, Cognitive Linguistics, Language and Culture, Current Theories of Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and Translation Theory.