Qiong Wu is a Ph.D. student at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Her research areas include Teaching Chinese as Second Language and Cognitive Linguistics.
Xi Yang teaches at the Kapi‘olani Community College. She currently is a Ph.D. student in Chinese linguistics at the Department of EALL at UHM. She has two master degrees, one in Ethnomusicology and the other in Chinese. She is a certified Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester in Chinese. Her research interests are interactional linguistics and Chinese language teaching pedagogy.
Xiao Ye is a Chinese language tutor at the Chinese Language Flagship Center. He taught Mandarin Chinese courses at different levels before at different U.S. universities. Also, He is currently pursuing his PhD degree at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, being interested in second language teaching and testing as well as Chinese syntax and semantics.
Jing Zhong is a tutor at the Chinese Language Flagship Center. She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her research interests include second and third language acquisition, bilingualism and psycholinguistics. Her dissertation topic is on the third language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese by Cantonese-English bilinguals and Korean-English bilinguals. Jing is a native Hakka speaker and passionate about snorkeling, meditation, yoga and calligraphy. She loves Hawaii and considers it her second hometown.
