Teaching
Fall 2016: An Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
Spring 2015: Language and Identity in Greater China
Spring 2014: Business Chinese, Chinese Films
Fall 2013: Business Chinese, Learning Chinese through Films, First-year Chinese
Aug. 2013 - Assistant professor of Chinese, the University of Connecticut
June. 2013 – Aug. 2013 Summer Faculty for the Chinese School, Middlebury College
Aug. 2012 – Aug. 2012 Assistant professor of Chinese and Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages, Framingham State University
(Courses: First-year Chinese through third-year Chinese; China through Films)
Sept. 2011 – Aug. 2012 Lecturer of Chinese, Program of African & Asian Languages, Northwestern University
(Taught the accelerated 2nd-year Chinese to heritage learners; taught modern Chinese literature in Winter and spring quarters)
Aug. 2010 – Aug. 2011 Visiting instructor of Chinese, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Whitman College
(Taught the 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-year Chinese; trained students to develop proficiency in Chinese listening, speaking, writing and reading and to foster intercultural awareness)
Sept. 2009 – June 2010 Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), The Ohio State University
(Taught the first-year Chinese; prepared lesson plans; taught classes, and graded students independently (CHINESE 101, 102 and 103)
June 2009 – August 2009 Lecturer of Chinese, The Ohio State University
(Taught Chinese at the Chinese Individualized Instruction Program, coordinated the teaching assignments among instructors and advised students enrolled in the whole program (around 30) (CHINESE 101- 612))
March 2009 – June 2009 Grader of Traditional Chinese Culture, The Ohio State University
(Graded reaction papers, mid-term exams, and final papers of forty students for the course Traditional Chinese Culture)
Sept. 2008 – June 2009 Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), The Ohio State University
(Taught the second/third-year intensive Chinese; prepared lesson plans and taught independently (CHINESE 210, 310 and 510))
June 2008- August 2008 Lecturer of Chinese, The Ohio State University
(Co-taught the intensive first-year Chinese with another instructor; prepared lesson plans and taught independently (CHINESE 101, 102 and 103))
Sept. 2007 – June 2008 Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), The Ohio State University
(Taught the second/third-year intensive Chinese; prepared lesson plans and taught independently (CHINESE 210, 310 and 510))
Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007 Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), Coordinate of Chinese Individualized Instruction Program, The Ohio State University
(Coordinated the Chinese Individualized Instruction Program, taught Chinese at different levels, and was responsible for labor delegation among instructors for instruction and grading for 100 + students / academic quarter (CHINESE 101- 612))
Sept. 2005 – June 2006 Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), The Ohio State University
(Taught first-year Chinese; prepared lesson plans and taught independently (CHINESE 101, 102 and 103))
2003 – 2004 Secretary of Foreign Affairs, The Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University
(Responsible for communicating between the faculty and the foreign teachers, helping foreign teachers handle their everyday and work issues)
Sept. 2000 – June 2005 Lecturer of English, Ningbo University, China
(Taught college English courses, including reading, speaking, writing, listening, Business and International Communications at different levels)