Former investigadora pre-doctoral / Phd candidate, now with PhD
Education
2019 to 2024: PhD in English Phonology, URV
2018-2019; Master in English Learning and Teaching, URV
2016-2018: Master in Advanced English Studies, UAB
Teaching
2023-2024 ADQUISICIÓ I ENSENYAMENT DE LLENGÜES ESTRANGERES (11605135)
2023-2024 DESTRESES COMUNICATIVES: READING AND WRITING II (12274110)
Research
English Phonetics & Phonology
Suprasegmental teaching
Clinical Phonetics
PRAAT
Publications
Forthcoming: Explicit versus implicit instruction: teaching English word and sentence stress to Chinese EFL adult. The Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (JMBS).
Zhang, X., & Romero, J. (2023). Explicit Rules or Implicit Imitation: a Comparative Study of Two Approaches to Teaching English Prosody. In R. Skarnitzl, & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1613-1617). Guarant International.
Zhang, X., & Romero, J. (2021). Investigation into the Correlation between Perception and Production of English Sentence Stress by Chinese EFL learners. In Ruiz-Cecilia, R. & Guijarro-Ojeda, J. R. (Eds.). Investigación e innovación en lengua extranjera: Una perspectiva global (pp. 879-905). Tirant lo Blanch.
Zhang, X., & Romero, J. (2021). Investigating the influence of sentence stress perception on foreign accent in utterances. In Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Applied Phonetics (ISAPh 2021) (pp. 76-79).