Research, Grants, awards
Awards & Grants
National and International
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2023 Research Priority Research Grant from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) (one of the 13 research awards granted nationwide)
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2025 Mini Grant from ACTFL Teaching and Learning of Culture SIG
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2025 ACTFL Leadership Award (SIG Chair Award)
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2023 ACTFL Global Engagement Initiative Award
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2020 ACTFL Distance Learning Special Interest Group (DL SIG)/Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Online Teaching Award for Higher Education
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2018 International Blackboard Exemplary Course: First Semester Chinese Online (Blackboard, USA)
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First Prize, 2017 Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA)
Institutional (from Boston University)
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Bridge Builder Fellow (Experiential Learning Grant), Center for Teaching and Learning, Initiative on Cities, 2022–2024.
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Online Course Development Grants, Summer School, 2017, 2019.
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Blended Learning Challenge Fellowship, Office of Digital Learning & Innovation, 2017–2018.
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Geddes Language Center Mini Grant for course re-design, 2017.
Stipends & Fellowships
State University of New York at Buffalo
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Graduate student award, Graduate School of Education (2023)
Boston University:
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Academic Enhancement Fund, 2016, 2023, 2024.
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Hub Course Enhancement Fund, 2024.
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Lecturer Professional Development Fund, 2016–2024.
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Hub Course Revision Stipend, 2018.
Carnegie Mellon University:
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50% Tuition Remission Scholarship, 2013–2014.
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Student Merit Scholarship, 2013–2014.
Peer reviewed journals
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Huang, L., & Kearney, E. (2025). Novice Mandarin learners’ transformative learning through critical virtual exchange: A multimodal, translanguaging design. Foreign Language Annals.
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Huang, L. (2021). Technology-enhanced online language education: Strategies of standards-based online Chinese course design. Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching.
Peer reviewed book chapters
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Huang, L. (2020). 美国汉语课堂里的第三文化小孩 [Third culture kids in teaching Chinese as a foreign language classroom]. In H. Wang & G. Liu (Eds.), 跨文化交际: 海外汉语教学实例 [Cross-cultural communication: Teaching Chinese in the global context]. Beijing: Peking University Press.
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Huang, L. (2020). 通过跨国广告打开跨文化之窗 [Teaching cross-cultural communication through international advertisements]. In G. Liu & H. Wang (Eds.), 传统与现代:海外中文文化教学 [Teaching Chinese culture overseas]. Beijing: Peking University Press.
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Huang, L., & Navarre, A. (2020). Teaching Chinese Through Authentic Audio-Visual Media Materials. In D. Chao, M. E. McLellan Zikpi, & C. Shei (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching (1st ed., pp. 358–374). Routledge.
Peer reviewed presentations
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Promoting transcultural and translingual competence through linguistic landscape fieldwork. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), annual conference, New Orleans, LA, 2025.
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Developing learners’ media literacy and global citizenship through news editing virtual exchange, ACTFL, annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2024.
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Empowering novice Chinese learners’ transformative intercultural learning through critical virtual exchange American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), annual conference, Houston, TX, 2024.
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IDEA Panel,. CALL for social justice: Critical place-based virtual exchange
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Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), annual conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2023
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Transforming intercultural learning through critical virtual exchange. AAAL, annual conference, Portland, OR, 2023.
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Transforming learning through place-based critical virtual exchange. ACTFL, annual conference, Boston, MA, 2022.
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Rethinking interculturality on Zoom in a pandemic. Intercultural Competence Conference, Center for Educational Resources in Language and Literacy, 2022. Virtual.
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Deconstructing and refining practices in a world language teaching methods course.
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AAAL, Annual Conference, 2021. Virtual
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ACTFL, annual conference, 2020; Core Practice Tools and Intercultural Teaching
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Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), annual conference, Washington DC, 2020
A Standards-based Online Chinese Course on Learners’ Oral Proficiency Gains
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New England Chinese Language Teachers Association (NECLTA), annual conference, Boston, MA, 2019: Effects of an Interactive Online Chinese Course on Learners’ Oral Proficiency Gains
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American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), annual conference, panel presentation, New Orleans, LA, 2018: Developing Advanced Proficiency through Content-Based Instruction
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Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), annual conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2018: Developing and Evaluating an Online Language Course
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HybridEd Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2018: Integrating Interactive Online Modules of Chinese Pragmatics into a Blended Course
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2018 World Language and Literature Pedagogy Symposium, Boston, MA
Teaching Cultural Values through International TV Commercials
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2017 World Language and Literature Pedagogy Symposium, Boston, MA
A Web-based Curriculum in Teaching Chinese Pragmatics
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2017 World Language and Literature Pedagogy Symposium, Boston, MA
Developing an Online Language Course
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American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), annual conference, panel presentation, Boston, MA, 2016: Chinese is not that Difficult: Technology Enhanced Education
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Chinese Language Teachers Association of Western Pennsylvania (CLTA-WPA), spring conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015: Teaching Pragmatics in L2 Chinese Classroom
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International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas, annual conference, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2014: Turn-Taking and Wait Time in Chinese-as-Foreign-Language Classroom Interactions
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Chinese Language Teachers Association of Western Pennsylvania (CLTA-WPA), fall conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2014: Turn-Taking as a Teaching Strategy in Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Classes
Other presentation:
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Digital Festival Spring 2017 Faculty Showcase, Boston, MA
An Open Online Learning Course on Chinese Pragmatics for L2 Chinese Learners
Grants
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2023 Research Priority Research Grant from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) (one of the 13 research awards granted nationwide)
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2025 Mini Grant from ACTFL Teaching and Learning of Culture SIG
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Bridge Builder Fellow (Experiential Learning Grant), Center for Teaching and Learning, Initiative on Cities, 2022–2024.
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Blended Learning Challenge Fellowship, Office of Digital Learning & Innovation, 2017-2018
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Geddes Mini Grant for course re-design, Geddes Language Center, 2017
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Online Course Development Grants, Summer School, 2019, 2017
Unpublished textbook project
Project leader: Led a team of 7 to analyze existing Chinese language textbooks in China, developed a Chinese language textbook with interactive games designed for a Chinese learning software. (Excellent undergraduate research award)