Xia Chao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Duquesne University School of Education Department of Instruction and Leadership in Education Canevin Hall, 102E 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15282 chaox@duq.edu http://duq.edu/academics/faculty/xia-chao EDUCATION The University of Alabama Ph.D Second Language Acquisition and Teaching 2013 The University of North Alabama M.A. Secondary Education 2007 Capital Normal University, China M.Ed Foreign Language Education 2004 WORK EXPERIENCE Duquesne University 2015 Present Assistant Professor, School of Education, ESL Specialist Certificate & M.S. Ed. Program Montana State University Billings 2013 2015 Director, the Intensive English Language Program Adjunct Faculty, the College of Education PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Journal Articles Chao, X. (2016). Community service learning as critical curriculum: Promoting international students second language experiences. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. 1-30. DOI: 0.1080/15427587.2016.1173513 Herron, J., Summers, R., & Chao, X. (2015). Mathematics and language: An analysis of elementary teachers lesson plans in elementary geometry lessons. Russian-American Education Forum: An Online Journal, 7(1). http://www.rus-ameeduforum.com/content/en/ Xue, M., & Chao, X. (2015). Non-borrowing students perceptions of student loans and strategies of paying for college. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 45(2), 25-45. Chao, X., & Mantero, M. (2014). Church-based ESL programs: Social mediators for empowering family literacy ecology of communities. Journal of Literacy Research, 46(1), 90-114. DOI: 0.1177/1086296X14524588
Chao. 2 Chao, X., Xue, M., & Xu, M. (2014). Elementary English Education: An arena of social struggle for professional Chinese parents. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 11(4), 252-272. DOI:10.1080/15427587.2014.968410 Xue, M., Chao, X., & Kuntz, A. (2014). A qualitative study: Academic socialization of Chinese visiting scholars in the United States. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 1-18, DOI:10.1080/02188791.2013.876389 Chao, X. (2013). Class habitus: Middle-class Chinese immigrant parents investment in their newcomer adolescents L2 acquisition and social integration. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 44(1), 58-74. DOI:10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01179.x Chao, X., & Kuntz, A. (2013). Church-based ESL program as a figured world: Immigrant adult learners, identity and power. Linguistics and Education, 24(4), 466-478. DOI:10.1016/j.linged.2013.06.001 Chao, X. (2006). The effects of teaching strategies in elementary English as a foreign language story reading. China Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research Journal, 4(3), 49 51. (in Chinese language) Chao, X. (2000). Developing students multiple thinking via English teaching. Beijing Education, 12, 18-20. (in Chinese language) Book Review Chao, X. (2009). Review of the book Educating the Other America: Top Experts Tackle Poverty, Literacy, and Achievement in Our Schools. English Leadership Quarterly, 32(2), 13. PRESENTATIONS International/National Conference Presentations Chao, X. (2016). Church-based ESL in multi-ethnic spaces: Critical pedagogy for adult immigrant literacy. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2016 Conference, Orlando, Florida. Chao, X. (2016). Creating third space: Volunteer instructors spiritual and critical perspectives and practices at church-based ESL programs in the American bible-belt. Paper presented at the colloquium "Religious Institutions as Alternative Spaces in Applied Linguistic Research: Taking Stock, and Moving Forward" in the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Orlando, FL. Chao, X. (2016). Community service learning as critical curriculum: Expanding possibilities of international students second language experiences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington D.C.
Chao. 3 Chao, X. (2015). From Transmission to Transformation: Critical Pedagogy for Adult Immigrant ESL Literacy. Paper presented at the 65 th annual conference of the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Carlsbad, California. Chao, X. (2015). ESL literacy engagement in multicultural and multilingual classrooms. Paper presented at the annual convention and world languages expo of the 2015 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), San Diego, California. Chao, X., & McEnany, J. (2015). Juggling language, identity, and race: Arab students ESL learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2015 TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Chao, X., & Waller, R. (2015). Urban American Indian family literacy: Sociocultural models of emergent bilingualism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2015 American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. Chao, X. (2014). Adult ESL education as transformation toward humanization: language, pedagogy, and identity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2014 American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA. Xue, M., Chao, X., & Kuntz, A. (2013). Chinese visiting scholars academic socialization in U.S. institutions of higher education: A qualitative study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2013 American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, California. Chao, X. (2012). A multi-sited ethnography: Immigrant adults' church-based second language socialization and family cultural capital. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2012 American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, Canada. Xue, M., & Chao, X. (2012). Lower-middle-SES non-borrowing students strategies of paying for college and reasons for their aversion to borrowing. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Association (QI), Champaign, Illinois. Chao, X. (2011). Opportunities for English language and cultural acquisition of newly arrived Chinese immigrant early adolescents. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the 2011 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, Illinois. Chao, X. (2010). Church-based ESL class: Collaboration in English language socialization of the Chinese immigrant adults and their children. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the 2010 American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, Colorado. Chao, X. (2009). Inside every story, there is a beautiful journey: An immigrant Chinese girl s second literacy improvement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Conference (QI), Champaign, Illinois.
Chao. 4 Regional Conference Presentations Chao, X. (2012). Church-based ESL literacy program as a figured world: Empowering immigrant adult learners and their children. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2012 Midsouth Educational Research Association (MSERA), Lexington, Kentucky. Chao, X. (2011). Faith-based ministry: Investment in international college students language and cultural acquisition and community involvement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 2011 Mid-south Educational Research Association (MSERA), Oxford, Mississippi. Chair at Conferences Chao, X. (2011). Chair of a paper session: Second language learning and teaching. The annual meeting of the 2012 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, Illinois. Chao, X. (2011). Chair of a paper session: Language learning and community engagement. The annual meeting of the 2011 Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA), Oxford, Mississippi. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Grant Proposal Reviewer National Science Foundation 2015 Editorial Board Member RELC: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research Critical Inquiry in Language Studies Invited Referee for Peer-reviewed Journals Journal of Literacy Research 2015 Linguistics and Education 2015 Teaching and Teacher Education 2015 Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 2015 Present Studies in Higher Education Referee for Conferences Literacy Research Association 2015 American Educational Research Association Mid-South Educational Research Association 2012 2013 AWARDS & HONORS Early Career Scholar Award, ALAE SIG, American Educational Research Association 2016 J. Michael Parker Award, Literacy Research Association 2015 Sarah L. Healy Endowed Graduate Scholarship, the University of Alabama 2011 2013 William E. Sexton Endowed Scholarship in Education, the University of Alabama 2010 2011
Chao. 5 RESEARCH GRANTS Chao, X. (2016 2017, Principal Investigator). Community service learning as critical curriculum: Promoting international students second language practices. School of Education Research and Development Grant (RDG), Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. $2,300 funded. Chao, X. (2015 2016, Principal Investigator). Language and literacy in church-based ESL programs for Bhutanese refugees: Building on strength, imagination, and equity. The Paluse Faculty Research Grant, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. $6,000 funded. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Literacy Research Association (LRA) American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) American Educational Research Association (AERA) American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) LANGUAGES English and Chinese