Lisha Xu

she/her

Faculty

Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies
on leave spring 2024

lxu@mtholyoke.edu

413-538-3376

Lisha Xu's research interests are Chinese pedagogy, Chinese character and word acquisition and instruction, technology-assisted Chinese language learning, and inclusive teaching in foreign language classrooms. She conducted research projects on:

Designing multimedia materials to teach listening
Technology-assisted character and vocabulary acquisition and teaching
Online teaching and learning curricular design
Social media-enhanced pedagogy
Blended learning approaches

Areas of Expertise

Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Education

M.A., University of Iowa
B.A., Shandong University

Associated Courses

At Mount Holyoke College, Lisha Xu teaches Chinese at all levels. Those courses include:

First-year Chinese, Second-year Chinese, and Third-year Chinese
Newspaper Reading and Journalistic Practice in China
Learning Chinese Through Film
Advanced Chinese Reading: Literary
Advanced Chinese Reading: Chinese Classics: 17th Century Short Stories
Business Culture and Communication in China

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Recent Publications

Xu, L. (2017). Developing multimedia supplementary materials to support learning beginning level Chinese characters. In K. Borthwick, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds), CALL in a climate of change: adapting to turbulent global conditions – short papers from EUROCALL 2017 (pp. 333-338). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2017.eurocall2017.736

Facilitate Autonomous learning of Chinese language with social media enhanced pedagogy, Proceedings of 20th International CALL Research Conference 2019 Xu, L. (2017).

Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Character and word Acquisition and Instruction (2nd Edition) (Lisha Xu, Shu Zhu, Sicheng Wang, Beijing Language and Cultural University) Journal Articles Lisha Xu (2019).

Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Instruction (Helen H. Shen, Chen-hui Tsai, Lisha Xu, Shu Zhu, Peking University Press, July 2011)

Materials for Beginning Level (Ying Wang, Lisha Xu, Shin-Yi Kao, Lei Yan, CLERC Publishing, Jan. 2018)