I'm an Assistant Professor in Chinese in Foreign Language Center at Defense Language Institute.
I received my Ph.D in linguistics in 2018 from the Department of Linguistics & Languages at Michigan State University, specializing in sociolinguistics and Chinese linguistics. I got my M.A. in Chinese Philology and B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Beijing Language and Culture University.
My primary research interest lies in the English speech of the Midwestern Chinese Americans. My dissertation, You Have to Adapt: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in “the Asian city” of Southeast Michigan, explores ethnic minority English and ethnic identity construction by examining the extent to which the English speech of second-generation Chinese Americans is affected by the most distinctive regional speech feature in Michigan, the Northern Cities Shift; and an emerging sound change in Michigan, the Elsewhere Shift. In this study, I am trying to answer (1) how speakers’ ethnic identity is affecting their way of speech (2) how speakers are constructing ethnic identity through their way of speech.
Beyond sociolinguistics, my research is also motivated by language teaching. I am interested in questions such as, what are the trajectory and influential factors of L2 acquisition? How could empirical studies shed light on language teaching?
I received my Ph.D in linguistics in 2018 from the Department of Linguistics & Languages at Michigan State University, specializing in sociolinguistics and Chinese linguistics. I got my M.A. in Chinese Philology and B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Beijing Language and Culture University.
My primary research interest lies in the English speech of the Midwestern Chinese Americans. My dissertation, You Have to Adapt: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in “the Asian city” of Southeast Michigan, explores ethnic minority English and ethnic identity construction by examining the extent to which the English speech of second-generation Chinese Americans is affected by the most distinctive regional speech feature in Michigan, the Northern Cities Shift; and an emerging sound change in Michigan, the Elsewhere Shift. In this study, I am trying to answer (1) how speakers’ ethnic identity is affecting their way of speech (2) how speakers are constructing ethnic identity through their way of speech.
Beyond sociolinguistics, my research is also motivated by language teaching. I am interested in questions such as, what are the trajectory and influential factors of L2 acquisition? How could empirical studies shed light on language teaching?
Last updated: September, 2020