Haiyang Ai, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Literacy & Second Language Studies
School of Education
University of Cincinnati
615P Teachers-Dyer Complex, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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Haiyang Ai

I am an Associate Professor of Literacy and Second Language Studies in the School of Education at the University of Cincinnati. I received my PhD in Applied Linguistics from The Pennsylvania State University and MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and 2015 respectively. I hold a BA in English from Shaanxi Normal University.

My research centers on corpus linguistics, intelligent computer-assisted language learning, and second language writing. I analyze students' written and spoken language production using corpus-based methods, and develop web-based computational tools for research and pedagogy. I am always looking for prospective doctoral students who share these interests — please feel free to reach out.

With Dr. Xiaofei Lu, I have developed web-based LCA and L2SCA for analyzing lexical and syntactic complexity in English. I have also developed WeCLECA for analyzing lexical complexity in Chinese. See the software page for details.