Yingru Zhao

Affiliation

University at Albany, SUNY

Biography

Yingru Zhao is a Ph.D. student and a graduate assistant in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. Her research interests are intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and bilingualism. Her pilot study explores how bilingual pragmatic competence developed in Chinese as the first language modified by learning English as a foreign language. She has published in English Studies, Foreign Languages and their Teaching. Yingru holds a B.A. in English Education and an M.A. in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She taught English to college students at Dalian University of Foreign Languages and Liaoning University of International Business and Economics in China. After graduation, she went to Croatia and started teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Pula University. She joined Zhejiang Normal University in 2019 where she taught students who are training to become instructors of Chinese as a foreign language. Before joining the doctoral program, she was teaching Chinese at Temple University in Philadelphia. She has experience working with college students at different levels of English and Chinese proficiency. She presented several times at the International Conference on New Discourses, Intercultural Communication Annual Conference and National Chinese Language Conference.