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Yangtian Luo specializes in Chinese Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Teaching Chinese Language. He holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor, he worked as a Lecturer in Chinese at Lawrence University and was an M.A. Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His experiences as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison helped refine his teaching skills and expand his understanding of language and cultural studies. Yangtian's commitment to teaching has been recognized with an Honorable Mention for the Early-career Teaching Award at Lawrence University, and he received the Honored Instructor title at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include studies in the International Journal of Chinese Linguistics that examine the impact of COVID-19 on Chinese L2 learners' motivation. His ongoing research involves a multi-modal Chinese text corpus focusing on Speech Respiration, particularly investigating the correlation between prosodic features of Mandarin Chinese and respiratory rhythms during speech activity, aiming to advance teaching methodologies for Mandarin.
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