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Wen Xiong

Position: Professor of Chinese Studies/ Department Chair Department: World Languages and Cultures

Contact Info

Office: 333 Hall Patterson Phone: 3367503452

Biography

Dr. Xiong Wen is a Professor of Chinese Studies and the Sara Lee Endowed Chairperson of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina of the U.S.A. Dr. Xiong has worked at different universities across three continents as the Chinese program founder.  She is a well-established scholar and has over 30 years of experience in teaching and researching Chinese as a second/foreign language. Dr. Xiong most recently published book is "The L2 Acquisition of the Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verbs" (2020), she also published seven textbooks for learners of Chinese by Beijing Language University Press and many journal articles. She was one of the 12 recipients of “National Best Teacher of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language” (China, 2001) and most recently received the Wilma Lassiter Master Teacher Award at WSSU (U.S.A, 2020). She held the language tester qualifications of OPI, AAPPL, and HSK in her career.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., (2007). Language Education and Second Language Acquisition (focused on Chinese), School for Education Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  • M.A., (1994). Applied Linguistics, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, College of Humanities and Literatures, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China
  • B.A., (1989). Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, College of Humanities and Literatures East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Research and Project Interests

  • Second Language Acquisition- Focus on Chinese
  • Chinese Linguistics
  • Language Contrast
  • Language Pedagogy
  • Curriculum Design
  • Chinese Cultural Studies

Grants

  • Xiong, W (30,000, awarded) 2023-2024
    Received the award to host a Fulbright Teaching Assistant of Chinese at WSSU.
  • Xiong, W ($$87,870.00., awarded) 2021 Co-PI
    UNCG Startalk Chinese Teacher Training Program, National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland. six-week summer teaching training program provided to 15 K-12 Chinese teachers.
  • Xiong, W ($ 85,937, awarded) 2020 PI
    WSSU Chinese Startalk STEAM-Infused Summer Program, National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland. Three-week summer immersion language program to provide 40 high school students and college students intensive Chinese language and culture training.
  • Xiong, W ($78,579, awarded) 2019 PI
    WSSU Chinese Startalk STEAM-Infused Summer Program, National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland. Three-week summer immersion language program to provide 30 high school students and college students intensive Chinese language and culture training, strive to exemplify best practices in language education, to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages.
  • Xiong, W (30,000, awarded) 2017-2018
    Received the award to host a Fulbright Teaching Assistant of Chinese at WSSU.