EVENT CANCELLED:
To be rescheduled for Fall 2023. More details to come in early Fall 2023
Unveiling the Hidden Challenges in First-Year Writing Classes: A Needs Analysis for Multilingual, First-Generation College Students with Yiran Xu
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Starts at 12 PM
COB 2-295
For any questions please contact humanities@ucmerced.edu
About the speaker:
Yiran Xu is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies in the Department of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies at the University of California, Merced. Her research interests include multilingual writing, second language acquisition and bilingualism, corpus linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and writing assessment. She used mixed-methods approaches to understand how multilingual learners develop writing over time across various contexts. She received her Ph.D. (2020) in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University, M.A. (2014) in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
