June. 2026

ICCA2026 has wrapped up successfully! I had the pleasure of serving on both the Program Committee and the Workshop Committee, co-presented two papers and organized a panel at the conference. And best of all, it was wonderful to reconnect with so many dear friends and colleagues I hadn't seen in years!

May. 2026

Attended the CAAL Annual Conference this year and served as an abstract reviewer for the Conference.

Mar. 2026

Honored to receive the Runner-Up Award for the Larry Vandergrift Best Graduate Paper from The Canadian Modern Language Review (CMLR), selected through the journal's annual paper competition.

Mar. 2026

Thrilled to share that I am a recipient of the inaugural Canada Postdoctoral Research Award! Check out my recent interview in The Quad about my CPRA-funded project!

Feb. 2026

I was delighted to present my research at the icCALTE conference at TED University.

Sept. 2025

Excited to announce the publication of my first teacher education paper! Grateful to the editor and reviewers for their support throughout the review process.

Aug. 2025

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

Jun. 2025

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

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.

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!

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).

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!

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!

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."

July. 2024

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

Mar. 2024

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

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.

Sept. 2023

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

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!

Jun. 2023

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

Jun. 2023

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

Oct. 2022

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Oct. 2020

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

Feb. 2020

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

conference link

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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June 9-14, 2019

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

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!

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.

Conference link

Nov. 2018

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

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Feb. 2018

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

Conference Link

Jul. 2017

I participated in the 2017 International Pragmatics Conference in Belfast at UK.

Apr. 2017

I've had the delightful experience of teaching Chinese at the University of Alberta for a year. Engaging with my students has been a truly enjoyable part!

Jun. 2013

My action research, entitled Using Scaffolding: Teacher Feedback with Adult ESL writers, received the award of “Outstanding Scholar Recognition for Academic Excellence in Action Research” from the Department of Learning & Teaching at the University of San Diego.