Inclusive Chinese Language Instruction and Pedagogical Research is an open-access resource website focusing on inclusive language education in the context of Chinese as a second or foreign language. The project is headed by Hongyin Tao and Co-PIs listed below, who were or are associated with UCLA, the Asian Languages and Cultures Department.
Hongyin Tao is a Professor of Chinese language and linguistics and applied linguistics in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department at UCLA. His areas of expertise include Chinese linguistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.
Dr. Liz Carter obtained her Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research interests include the intersection of linguistics and law, how censorship affects and inspires communication, and the teaching of Mandarin as a foreign language.
Dr. Yan Zhou obtained her Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She studies interactional resources (grammar, words, prosody, and gesture) used in speech acts in social interaction. She also has extensive experience in teaching Chinese as a second language.
Dayoung Jeong is a Ph.D. student in Chinese linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research interests focus on interactional linguistics, phonetics, and heritage & second language acquisition.
Cheer Wu is a Ph.D. student in Chinese linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her research interests include family interaction, classroom interaction and language variation using Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis and Multimodal Analysis.
This project has been supported by EPIC Innovation Grants since 2020. The Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program is a partnership between UCLA Division of Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation designed to develop innovative humanities pedagogy for both faculty and graduate students at UCLA.
