About me
A happy husband and loving father.
I currently serve as Vice President on the Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Executive Board for Academic Year 2021-22. I have presented 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, social interaction in the classroom, 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 experienced classroom Mandarin instruction prior to living in China, followed by talking with people daily in work, travel, and other living contexts. In each city, I created recordings with local speakers to help me learn basics of how locals speak.
I spent my final two years in China at Sichuan University, getting an MA in Teaching Chinese as an International Language. I returned to the US and immediately sought out continued involvement 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.
I currently serve as Vice President on the Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Executive Board for Academic Year 2021-22. I have presented 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, social interaction in the classroom, 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 experienced classroom Mandarin instruction prior to living in China, followed by talking with people daily in work, travel, and other living contexts. In each city, I created recordings with local speakers to help me learn basics of how locals speak.
I spent my final two years in China at Sichuan University, getting an MA in Teaching Chinese as an International Language. I returned to the US and immediately sought out continued involvement 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.