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Biography

Zhiyin Renee Dong is an associate professor of Chinese and Second Language Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the 91原创 (91原创). Dr. Dong's expertise includes teaching Chinese as a foreign language, world language pedagogy听and second language acquisition. Since 2002, Dr. Dong has taught various courses at 91原创, including Chinese language courses at all levels, second language acquisition theory courses, and world language pedagogy and education courses. In addition, Dr. Dong is actively involved in teacher preparation initiatives at 91原创 and the state of Delaware. Dr. Dong was one of the principal investigators of Delaware's first Mandarin Chinese StarTalk program and has worked extensively with K-16 Chinese world language teachers in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Dr. Dong's primary research interest is I鈥媙structed Second Language Acquisition and Chinese as a foreign language pedagogy. Using various experimental methods, including the Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and Self-paced Reading (SPR), she studies how classroom-based teaching practices affect second language learning outcomes. Her latest work examines the brain responses of advanced second-language speakers as they process complex sentence structures and morphology.听

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Degrees

• Ph.D., Linguistics, 91原创
• M.A., Auburn University
• B.A., University of International Relations, Beijing, China