Assistant Professor

Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Education Programme (Chinese)

Faculty of Education, University of Macau

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Full-time faculty appointment

08/2019-Present Assistant Professor

Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Administrative appointment

07/2023-Present Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Education Programme (Chinese)

Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Other appointment

11/2018-06/2019 Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Education and Human Development, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

EDUCATION

09/2014-08/2018 Ph.D., Intercultural Communication & Language Education

Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Dissertation: Teacher identity, teacher cognition and teacher instructional practices in the teaching of intercultural communicative competence: A mixed methods study on Chinese language teachers

Committee: Law Wing Wah (chair), Liu Songhao, Mairin Hennebry, and Huang Xianhan

09/2005-07/2008 M.A., History of Ancient Chinese (Exegesis,訓詁學)

Department of Applied Linguistics, Zhengzhou University, China

Thesis: Measure words in pre-Qin ancient Chinese

09/2001/07/2005 B.A., Chinese Language and Literature

School of Chinese Language and Literature, Zhengzhou University, China

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST AND RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Intercultural communication

Chinese education

Teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign/second language

Teacher education and development

Technology and language education