Jie Cai Professorial Lecturer Department of World Languages and Cultures

Bio: Professor Cai received his BA in Chinese from Shanghai Normal University in China and his MA and MLS from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining AU, he had taught all levels of Chinese for over 16 years at schools including Harvard University, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgetown University. His research interests lie primarily in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teaching Chinese as a Heritage Language, Second Language Acquisition, Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Modern Chinese Literature

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