Critical Period Hypothesis– Period of life when a language can be acquired more easily. As Humans leave this period during their lives (early childhood), some people believe language becomes more difficult to acquire. Hegemony is a state of asserted dominance. It is a consequence of imperialism, wherein one culture imposes itself upon another/others with the […]

Text Analysis of Affordances of Writing Technology Teaching Chinese as a Second Language – A Digital Literature Review and Forum   Jing Zhao   Problem Statement    This project serves as a precursor to the following question: what are some of the affordances of collaborative writing technology that second language instructors use to teach Chinese writing skills […]

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Midterm project description of the Zine Union Catalog project for ITP Core 2

  My project is to build a course site for  French language students  which is available either on mobile phone, laptop or computer. The  course site is designed to quench the thirst of those of my students who  either want to broaden their knowledge of French or who have special interest in learning some aspects […]

ITP Core 2 Midterm- A proposal for a culturally sustaining and critical sociolinguistic grammar game for speakers of World Englishes.

Cybersecurity Workshops for Educators The Graduate Center, City University of New York General Description Introduction Teaching and doing research in academia offers the opportunity to work with students from a diverse range of backgrounds. While this range of experiences enriches any educational context, it is also important to acknowledge that with it comes a range […]

  This proposal explores digital annotation as an opportunity for making solitary reading practices more visible and social. I aim to modify an existing annotation tool to use in my English 220: Introduction to Writing about Literature class at Hunter College. As an instructor for this course, I learned the difficulty of modelling, scaffolding, and […]

  Jing Zhao Narrative: This project serves as a precursor to the following question: what are some of the affordances of collaborative writing technology that second language instructors use to teach Chinese writing skills in U.S. colleges?   As a Chinese language instructor at Hunter College, I am curious about how writing skills are taught […]