2023-24 New Faculty

Xiaoming Hou will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Macau. As a second language educator, he has had over a decade of teaching experience in teaching Chinese in colleges and universities (e.g., Bucknell University, Hamilton College and Johns Hopkins University), summer immersion programs (e.g., STARTALK and the Middlebury Chinese Summer School), and study abroad programs (e.g, Middlebury in Beijing and Associated Colleges in China). He currently works as a Skill Architect for Duolingo, helping them re-design their Chinese course.
 
He is an active researcher as well. His research broadly lies in second language acquisition and instruction with a focus on Chinese as a second language acquisition. His recent publications in Language and Cognition and Applied Psycholinguistics tackle the difficulty in second language acquisition of the notorious Mandarin Ba-construction.