About

Nihao! My name is Fengyang Ma, and I am an assistant professor in the Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) in the School of Education at University of Cincinnati. My research interests center on the Psycholinguistic investigation of bilingualism. I am particularly interested in examining different aspects of bilingual lexical processing with both behavioral and ERP methods. Specifically, I study

  • Meaning retrieval of L2 words as a function of proficiency,
  • Parallel activation of both languages during L2 word recognition,
  • Plasticity of cognitive control mechanisms during bilingual word production, and
  • How bilinguals juggle with verbal and non-verbal cues during language processing.

Education

  • Post-doctoral visiting Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, 2012-2014.
  • Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics, Tsinghua University, China, 2012
  • M.A. in Linguistics, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2006
  • B.A. in English, Shandong University, China, 2003