Ms. Shu (Sukkie) Yang is a junior English language instructor in the English Language Center (ELC). She has earned a master’s degree in linguistics, with an option in TESOL and second language acquisition and teaching from California State University, Fresno, USA. Ms. Yang also holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from South-Central University for Nationalities in Wuhan, China. During her graduate studies at California State University, Ms. Yang was a Chinese instructor to American undergraduates for two semesters. She tutored and assisted in the teaching of English as a second language classes in America and in China before she started a master’s degree in the US. She has presented the findings from her master’s thesis at a number of academic conferences. Education M.A. in Linguistics – Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (TESOL/SLAT) (with distinction), California State University, Fresno, USA (2021) B.A. in English Literature, South-Central University for Nationalities, China (2016)

Language acquisition

Yang, S. & Chen, J. 2021. The Acquisition of Verb Argument Realization in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (in prep.) Chen, J., Narasimhan, B., Chan, A., Yang, W., & Yang, S. (2020). Information structure and word order preference in child and adult speech of Mandarin Chinese. Languages 5(2): Special Issue on The Acquisition of Chinese as a First and Second Language. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5020014