Haidan Wang
王海丹

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Jing Wu
吴婧

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.

Jacob Algrim
欧阳乐士

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.

Hsin-Tzu Jen
任心慈

Hsin-Tzu Jen is a Ph.D. student and a graduate assistant in EALL. He holds a Master’s degree in Chinese as a Second Language from National Taiwan Normal University. Before joining UHM, Hsin-Tzu also taught Chinese and cultural classes at several tertiary institutes in Taiwan and in the U.S., including Tamkang University, National Taiwan Normal University, and College of the Holy Cross. Besides teaching and research, Hsin-Tzu enjoys hiking, swimming, and Chinese calligraphy. Recently, he is working on culinary skills as he has been eating the same five or six dishes, which are the only ones he knows how to cook, for far too long.

Nini Li
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Jia Liu
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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
田嘉欣

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.