Manman (Mandy) Qian

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Educational Background

MA, Iowa State University, IA 2010 to 2012

GPA: 3.93

Program: TESL/Applied Linguistics

English Writing Students Perceptions of Teacher and Peer Feedback

Thesis:

BA, Guangdong Univ. Foreign Studies, China 2005 to 2009

Major: English Language and Culture (specialization: IT management)

Minor: Japanese

Graduate Courses Taken

Second Language Assessment Second Language Acquisition

TESL Methods and Materials Teaching Pronunciation to ESL Speakers

Grammatical Analysis Introduction to Computers in Applied Linguistics

Introduction to Linguistics Sociolinguistics

Honors, Awards and Grants

2012.04 Freda Huncke Endowment Graduate Teaching Fellowship

2012.02 Grannis Award ($4000)

2012.02 Professional Advanced Grant ($600)

2009.06 Bachelor of Arts with Distinction

2009.06 University Award to Distinguished Graduates

2008.11 University Award to Outstanding Class Representatives

2006 - 2008 National Scholarship (Awarded to top 5%) 2 times

2006 - 2008 University Award to All-Around Students (Awarded to top 5%) 2 times

2005 - 2008 Class A Academic Excellence Scholarship(Awarded to top 10%) 3 times

2005 - 2007 University Award for Excellent Papers on Social Practice 2 times

Conference Presentations

Qian, M. (2011, Sep.) Why Certain Speech Errors are Common among Mandarin ESL/EFL Speakers. Poster

session presented at the 3rd Pronunciation in L2 Learning and Teaching Conference, Ames, IA.

Giupponi, L. Qian, M. Driscoll, N. Boggs, J. (2012, Feb.) What to do when Zombies attack? Preparing students for

life abroad using online materials. Paper session presented at the 13rd Texas Foreign Language Education

Conference, Austin, TX. ( Funded by Department of English $400 and Graduate College $200)

Research Experience, Iowa State University

How Criterion Facilitates ESL Learners Writing (PI: Volker Hegelheimer)

Summer 2011- present

Responsible for investigating how teachers perceive the helpfulness of Criterion (an

ETS-developed computer-aided program) to the teaching and learning of English writing skills.

Jan. 2012 - Present Department of State Grant on Materials Development (PI: Volker Hegelheimer)

Responsible for doing research and creating materials for an online course on developing English

teaching materials for the global level

Teaching Experience

2010 - 2011 ENGL150 Critical Thinking and Composition, Iowa State University

Fall 2010: one section Spring 2011: two sections Fall 2011: two sections

Teaching Assistant (20hrs/week) for freshman undergraduates, including native and non -native

English speakers.

Responsible for constructing course materials based on textbooks provided, preparing and

delivering classes in both regular and lab classrooms, creating and maintaining course websites on

Moodle, assessing student learning, and conferencing students during semiweekly office hours.

Summer 2011 Private Pronunciation Tutor for a Malaysian Undergraduate

Designing teaching materials, preparing and delivering tutoring sections

2006 to 2010 English Tutor, Yangcheng Tutoring Agency, Guangzhou, China

Tutored an adult Chinese businessman in English pronunciation and speaking

Tutored five Chinese middle school students (at different times) in English, Math and Chemistry

Voluntary English Teaching Experience

07 to 08/2007 Taiba Middle School, Longyan City, Fujian Province, China

I designed course materials, and taught English reading and drama to one senior middle school

class with over 70 students and one elementary class with over 30 students.

Have been in correspondence with some students to this day.

Other Work Experience

English editor (full-time) BET. Information System Inc., Guangzhou

2009 to 2010

English interpreter (part-time) China Intl. Small & Medium Enterprises Fair, Guangzhou

2008

English interpreter (part-time) Guangdong Telecom Engineering Corporation, Ltd.

2008

English journalist News Center at Guangdong Univ. Foreign Studies

2007

Language Skills

Mandarin: Native

English: All-around fluency

Japanese: Reading proficiency

Web: mqian.public.iastate.edu

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