2018 Graduate Achievement Award recipient
Originally from China, Shuang has taught Chinese to students from kindergarten to the university level in China, Thailand, and the US. As a graduate student at UM, Shuang pursues study in second-language teaching, comparing the pedagogies of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with other modern languages teaching, especially Chinese. She is interested in teachers’ personal knowledge in second-language teaching, language learning strategies, and intercultural adaptation strategies. Her thesis explores “A Gap Between Language Theoretical Knowledge and Teachers’ Personal Knowledge: An Investigation of CSL Teachers in China.”