Professional Bio

Areas of Interest: transnational identity construction, heritage language socialization, and bilingual children’s language and literacy education.

Ying Xiong is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Applied Linguistics. She earned her master’s degree in Second Language Education from University of Cambridge in the UK, and a B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China. Ying has accumulated experience in teaching Chinese and English as foreign languages to both young learners and adult learners of various sociolinguistic backgrounds. Her research interests include transnational identity construction, heritage language socialization, and bilingual children’s language and literacy education.