The language alternation talk

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Jun. 2025

I presented my research on language alternation at the multilingualism panel we co-organized at ACAL 2025. It was a very insightful discussion with colleagues.

My Talk at THU

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Apr. 2025

I presented my research at Tsinghua University and had a great time discussing it with colleagues—an engaging one-hour session full of insights!

Education Forum Series at PKU

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Apr. 2025

I was honored to be invited to speak at Peking University as the 315th talk in the Education Forum Series. The experience was deeply meaningful for both my personal journey and academic research.

Teaching Awards

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Apr. 2025

I received two graduate student teaching awards in the final year of my graduate studies. Grateful to my students for their support!

The CLTM Café

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Sept. 2024

I’ve been invited to speak on Pedagogical Gestures in CSL Classroom Interaction at the Chinese Language Teaching Methods Café, organized by the Chinese Language Teaching and Research Association (CLTRA).

New term of teaching

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Sept. 2024

This term, I am teaching a Chinese language course and excited to apply my own research to enhance my classroom strategies and facilitate student learning!

ICCA2026 Organizing Committee

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Aug. 2024

I’ve started work on the organization of ICCA2026 as part of the Organizing Committee! Keynote speakers have been confirmed, and the Call for Papers will be released in early 2025. Stay updated!

Invited talk at TDL 5

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Jun. 2024

I was invited to give a talk at TDL5, where I explored the cross-linguistic development of L2 interactional competency, focusing on "interactionalization."

VALS-ASLA paper

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July. 2024

Check out my new publication on teacher’s gestures in the CSL classroom!

AAAL 2024

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Mar. 2024

I presented on the topic of teachers' teasing in classroom interactions at the AAAL conference.

CAGS 2023

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Nov. 2023

We presented our project: “From ‘Monster’ to Mentor: Developing PhD Supervision Competencies” at the 61st Annual Conference of Canadian Association for Graduate Studies.

CML lab regular meeting

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Sept. 2023

This semester, our lab is once again organizing regular meetings for data sessions.

Perparing for ICCA 2026

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Jun. 2023

I am excited to share that the next International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA) in 2026 will be hosted by the University of Alberta. I have the honor of serving on the organizational committee!

ICCA 2023

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Jun. 2023

I presented my paper at ICCA-2023, hosted by the University of Queensland, Australia.

Eye-tracking data Collection:)

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Jun. 2023

Collecting eye-tracking data this summer! What a valuable experience!

LANSI 2022

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Oct. 2022

I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the LANSI conference.

CLIMM Workshop

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Aug. 2022

I had the honor of leading a workshop titled 'CA in Second Language and Classroom Interaction' at the Chinese Language, Interaction, and Multimodality Methods Workshop (CLIMM). It was a remarkable experience. We received over 500 registrations for CLIMM!

I have been invited to give a talk at the University of Neuchâtel.

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Jun. 2022

I presented my talk “A Developmental Perspective: The Functions of Teachers’ Syntactically Incomplete Utterances and Students’ Orientation” at the L2 Grammar-in-Interaction Colloquium, University of Neuchâtel.

My guest lecture at the University of Neuchâtel

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Mar. 2022

I just gave a guest lecture, entitled: A Multimodal Analysis of Teachers’ Initiating Utterances in IRE Sequence to an undergraduate seminar at the University of Neuchâtel.

My visit to the Center of Applied Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel

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Feb. 2022

This term, I had the opportunity to visit the Center of Applied Linguistics (Centre de linguistique appliquée) at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. During my visit, I participated in their regular data sessions and workshops, which were both enlightening and engaging. This is my new office!

My first journal article!

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2020

My first journal article has been published! You can access it through this link. A unique aspect of this work (cannot saying in the paper) is that I drew all the images in the transcriptions by myself!

MLCS Graduate Research Series

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Nov. 2020

I recently presented in the MLCS Graduate Research Series. My talk, titled “Teacher’s Freezing of Facial and Body Movements as a Pursuing Practice in Second Language Classrooms,” discusses the non-verbal aspects in classrooms.

The workshop of Mediums of Discourse Exchange

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Oct. 2020

I presented at the workshop of Mediums of Discourse Exchange, hosted by the Spoken Discourse Research Studio at the University of Alberta.

MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2020

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Feb. 2020

I presented at the MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2020: (En)Forced-(Mis)Connections.

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The Referentiality Workshop

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Sept. 2019

I participated in the Referentiality Workshop, which focused on the concept of referentiality based on the examination of multiple languages. Organized by the Spoken Discourse Research Studio at the University of Alberta.

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IPrA 2019

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June 9-14, 2019

I presented at the 2019 International Pragmatics Conference at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

My dissertation data is collected.

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May. 2019

I collected data for my dissertation from Peking University. Also, I had the opportunity to participate in various conferences and talks organized by the university. Really appreciated this opportunity!

MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2019

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Feb. 2019

I presented at the MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2019, University of Alberta, entitled: Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta

“She’s Chinese too”: The Interactional Function of Claiming Citizenship in Mandarin Conversation.

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AMPRA 2018

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Nov. 2018

I presented at the AMPRA conference in the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

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MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2018

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Feb. 2018

I gave a presentation at the MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2018: Transcending Connections.

Conference Link