Guiling Hu

Guiling (Gloria) Hu received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Georgia State University and MA in Applied Linguistics from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her research interests include second language teacher education, second language listening processing, language attitude and ideology, and cross-linguistic study of prosody. Guiling also has extensive teaching experiences that include Chinese classes to heritage learners in New Zealand and college and public school students in the US, English classes to college students in China and international students in the US, and undergraduate and graduate level linguistics courses in the US. She is currently developing blended and online Chinese courses for the Chinese Program. Prior to her position at UMD, she worked as the Chinese specialist at STARTALK. She has been serving as a STARTALK site visitor for more than ten years.