- Ph.D. Researcher in Cognitive/Usage-based Linguistics, focusing in language acquisition and corpus methods; my conference presentation materials can be found here;
- Chinese (Mandarin) Language Teacher, focused in Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching (CCLT), Task-based Language Learning (TBLL), and Content/Language Integrated Learning (CLIL);
- Language Teacher Educator, working since 2012 in STARTALK Chinese programs and with the growing CCLT teaching communities;
- Teacher community organizer, including the TULIP PLC in Hawai‘i (link)
- Hop over to my shop. For now it has materials related to Chinese reading, and I hope to expand the selection to fun content in other languages soon. (link)
I like to discuss this quote from SLA research:
The idea that what you teach is what they learn, and when you teach it is when they learn it, is not just simplistic, it is wrong.—Michael Long, 1998 (p38)
The idea that what you teach is what they learn, and when you teach it is when they learn it, is not just simplistic, it is wrong.—Michael Long, 1998 (p38)