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Yangtian Luo is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her expertise spans Chinese Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Prior to Northwestern, she held teaching roles at Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she developed pedagogical strategies and earned teaching accolades.
Her research focuses on multimodal Chinese text corpora analyzing speech respiration patterns and their impact on Mandarin learning. She has published in journals like International Journal of Chinese Linguistics and conducted studies on pandemic-era language learner motivation. Key honors include the Honorable Mention Early-career Teaching Award from Lawrence University and recognition as an Honored Instructor at UW-Madison.
Yangtian’s work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical language education, emphasizing prosodic features and respiratory rhythms in speech. She actively explores how these elements can refine Mandarin teaching methodologies through empirical research.
