I recently received my Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

I graduated from Peking University (PKU) with a M.A. in Chinese Linguistics and Wuhan University (WHU) with a B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. 

My research is motivated by two major questions in the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and (psycho)linguistics: (i) How L2 learners make use of multiple linguistic cues (e.g., phonology, semantics, syntax) and non-linguistic cues (e.g., discourse, pragmatics, world knowledge, etc.) to predict upcoming words and phrases in order to facilitate L2 processing, and (ii) more intriguingly, how the way learners process their L2 is consequential to their learning outcome, and regarding which when we have better knowledge, how to supply or present language input in ways that maximize L2 learning opportunities. I address these questions primarily using lab- and web-based behavioral experimental methods such as visual world eye tracking (VWP), structural priming, elicited production, acceptability judgments, and so on.