REED RIGGS 芮尚勤
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​About me

A happy husband and loving father.

​I currently serve as Past President on the Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Executive Board for Academic Year 2022-23, serving in prior years as Vice President, Secretary, and Chinese Language Representative. I served as a Teacher of the Year selection judge at the 2019 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT). I have presented hands-on workshops for language teachers across the United States and internationally, including in China and France. ​My interests include Chinese language teaching, intercultural learning, language teacher education, classroom interaction, performance-based assessments, developmental language disorders and additional research interests listed below.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Hawai`i in 2018, and have been working in language teacher education in Hawai`i since 2012. My research ties language teaching practices with research in Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Construction Grammar with special attention on interactional competence, comprehension, context factors, and human categorization. I hope to highlight more areas where teachers and researchers can work together and gain from each other’s work. 

I lived in China from 2005 to 2012, after completing a BA in Chinese Language and International Affairs at the University of Puget Sound. I lived and worked in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in Yangzhou, in Jiangsu province, and in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province. I spoke Standard/Mandarin Chinese with people in work, travel, and other life contexts. In each city, I used recordings of local speakers to help me better understand regional language use.

I spent my final two years in China completing an MA at Sichuan University in "Teaching Chinese as an International Language." I returned to the US in 2012 and immediately found continued opportunities in professional development for myself as a Chinese language teacher and in teacher education to help, and learn alongside, other teachers. Other pages on this site showcase this work.
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