Developing Writing Competence in L2 Chinese Classrooms: Research and Application

Li Yang is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University, USA. She conducts research on second language acquisition of Chinese, focused on interlanguage pragmatics and second language writing.

Laura Valentín-Rivera is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University, USA. Her academic interests include Spanish applied linguistics, heritage language learners’ literacy skills and collaboration mediated by social tools, and Spanish in the United States.