Associate Professor of Chinese in EALL, specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film and documentary film. Dr. Peng will annually offer a lecture, workshop or brown-bag discussion group on Chinese documentary and social issues reflected in these films, and take an active role in student recruitment.
Associate Professor in Chinese linguistics, pedagogy, and Chinese for Specific Purposes. Professor Wang has extensive expertise in Advanced/Superior Level curriculum design and material development. She is a certified OPI tester and rater and is experienced with language proficiency training. Professor Wang is assisting with CLFC tutor training and curriculum improvement.
Jing Wu is a full-time Chinese instructor and a Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Moreover, she served as UHM Study Abroad Program Faculty Resident Director in the Fall 2018 and Summer 2019. Her research interests constitute second language assessment and evaluation and intercultural development in study abroad settings. As a versatile veteran instructor, she has been teaching college-level Mandarin Chinese at the UHM for about 10 years. Her courses range from novice to advanced levels and from pure in-person instruction to fully synchronous online teaching.
Associate Professor of Chinese in EALL, specializes in 20th-century Chinese literature, culture, and film, as well as in cultural studies, and is also Editor of the China Review International. She will annually offer a lecture, workshop or brown-bag discussion group on 20th-century Chinese literature, culture or film.
Jacob Algrim is a Chinese lecturer and PhD student in Chinese Linguistics at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. After completing a BA in Applied Linguistics, he moved to Guangdong, China, where he lived and worked for seven years while studying Mandarin Chinese. Five of these years were spent working as a foreign language lecturer at the university level, where an interest in academics and linguistic research was further fostered. He completed an MA in Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Pedagogy before moving out of China to come to the University of Hawai’i. His research interests include cognitive linguistics and cross-cultural communication.
Nini Li is a Phd student in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Before coming to Hawaii, she has taught Chinese in Williams College and the University of Notre Dame for 5 years. Her research interests are Construction Grammar and Pedagogical Grammar.The East Asian Languages and Literatures program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa provides students with opportunities to explore cutting edge theories and to put those theories into application. She hopes to broaden her knowledge and understanding of linguistics, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis and so on. Based on this, she wants to explore how to use theoretical linguistics to guide teaching and how to make the teaching aid the development of the theoretical linguistics, working hard to build a bridge between theoretical linguistics and teaching.
Jia Liu is working on a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She has an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong and a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Renmin University of China. She has experience teaching Chinese language courses and designing Chinese language learning materials as a full-time teacher in Hangzhou and Hong Kong to K-12 students of international schools. She also has experience teaching an Elementary Putonghua summer course at the University of Hong Kong to adult learners who study Chinese as a foreign language.
Jiaxin Tian is a Ph.D. student at East Asian Languages and Literatures at UHM, majoring in Chinese linguistics. She earned her M.A. in teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She has been teaching Chinese for three years with different learners, ranging from K students to retired persons. Jiaxin enjoys doing handwork during her spare time, and she is good at making simple Chinese Knots only with her hands.
Meng-Ting Lin is a visiting graduate student in Teaching Chinese as a second language from National Taiwan University. She is currently a teaching assistant who supports the Chinese language classes, cultural activities and research projects at the department of EALL at UHM.
