M.A. in Cognitive Linguistics, Case Western

Reserve University

I am interested in the language acquisition and cognition of both children and L2 learners. I
found the comparison between these two learner groups fascinating and believe those differences
can reveal insights into language acquisition and related cognitive processes such as learners’
mental representations. My studies on children and adult L2 learners’ acquisition of the
classifiers in Mandarin Chinese show that those two groups of learners tend to make different
types of errors and infer the distinction in their learning strategies. My goal for the future study is
to conduct long-term experiments to follow the development of learners. I am also a multilingual
person, working with English, Chinese, and Japanese. Besides my research life, I am a dog lover
living with my cute Australian Sheppard Anna!