Jian Kang Loar

Jian Kang Loar is an Associate Chinese Professor at a prominent language institute in Monterey, California. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and she has been engaged in language teaching for her whole life. She specializes in Chinese grammar, primarily in the verbal aspectual system, the sentence information structure, and Chinese word order. She has published Chinese Syntactic Grammar: Functional and Conceptual Principles (2011) and Teaching Chinese Word Order (In Chinese) (2015). She...See more

Jian Kang Loar is an Associate Chinese Professor at a prominent language institute in Monterey, California. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and she has been engaged in language teaching for her whole life. She specializes in Chinese grammar, primarily in the verbal aspectual system, the sentence information structure, and Chinese word order. She has published Chinese Syntactic Grammar: Functional and Conceptual Principles (2011) and Teaching Chinese Word Order (In Chinese) (2015). She is also versed in theories of foreign language teaching and learning. See less