Faculty Directory
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- Title
- Lecturer in Chinese
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Languages and Applied Linguistics
- Phone 831.459.2198
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 104
- Office Hours Tuesdays 10-11am @ zoom (Meeting ID: 423 723 7317 ; Passcode: 829556) or by appointment
- Mail Stop Cowell Academic Services
Research Interests
- Self-Directed Learning in Digital Discourse
- Second Language Writing Feedback
- Teaching Language with Authentic Materials
- Educational technology and online teaching
Biography, Education and Training
Elu Tu earned her Ph.D. degree in the Curriculum and Instruction Department—World Language Education program with a minor in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. Her research interests are instructional technology, self-directed learning, and digital literacy. Her recent project was funded USD 10,000 to develop a best practice for authentic materials instruction in world language education. She asserts that language learning is a transdisciplinary practice to understand and connect to multi-cultures. Cultivating global citizens is her passion and determination to incorporate technology and language pedagogy. Her life goal is to found and run a successful foundation/NGO dedicated to promoting and advancing digital justice.
Honors, Awards and Grants
GRANTS
- MRRC Grant—Southern Connecticut State University, $2000 for 2019-2020, Research project for A New Generation of Chinese Immigrant Youth: On Fuerdai's Economic Privileges, National Identity, and Educational Selectivity.
- Curriculum Development Grant— Southern Connecticut State University, $5000 for 2019-2020 with Dr. Cardone, Activity for Developing a Chinese Minor.
- MRRC Grant—Southern Connecticut State University, $2000 for 2018-2019, Presenting at Annual Conference of North American Taiwan Studies Association.
- Faculty Development Fund— Southern Connecticut State University, $2900 for 2018-2019 with Dr. Cardone and Dr. Schmitt, Project: Video Conferencing at Southern; Next Steps
- Start Preliminary Proof-of-Concept Fund—University of Connecticut, awarded $10,000 for 2019-2020, Project: Land in Fog of World Languages: A Platform to Create Learning Activities through Authentic Videos.
AWARDS
- SCSU Career Champions— Career champions are faculty or staff members at SCSU who made a significant impact regarding a student's career trajectory
Selected Publications
- Tu, I. (2021) Developing Self-Directed Learning Strategies through Creative Writing: Three Case Studies of Snowball Writing Practice in a College Chinese Language Classroom. Thinking Skills and Creativity, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100837 (SSCI Index)
- Tu, I. (2020) An Investigation of second Language Writers’ Complex Dynamic Systems with Retrodictive Qualitative Modeling: Three Case Studies of Learners of Chinese. Journals of US-China Education Review A , 10:3, 95-112.
- Tu, I. (2018) Emerging Second Language Writing Identity and Complex Dynamic Writing: A Transdisciplinary Perspective. Journal of World Languages, 4: 3,160-181.
Selected Presentations
Tu, I. (Aug 15-20, 2021). Technology-mediated corrective feedback and instruction in
language learning (Symposium 167). The World Congress of Applied Linguistics
(AILA), Groningen, Netherlands. (virtual)
Tu, I. (May 18-20, 2020). Emerging H5P and Authentic Materials for Language Instruction:
A Case Study in a Chinese Classroom (Session 5). The H5P Conference 2020, Madison, WI, United States. https://h5pcon-2020.h5p.org/program.html (Conference canceled)
Tu, I. (Apr. 3-5,2020). Emerging Interactive Technological Applications and
Authentic Materials for Language Instruction: A Case Study in a Chinese Classroom (Potomac II Workshop). CLTA Annual Conference, Washington DC, United States. https://clta-us.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2.16Version_CLTA2020ConfernceProgram.pdf
(Conference canceled)
Piemontese, L. and Tu, I. (Feb. 7-9, 2019). Solving Puzzles to Improve Proficiency and
Communication. Workshop presented at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, NY, United States.
Piemontese, L. and Tu, I. (Oct. 21-22, 2018). Breaking through Communication. Workshop
presented at the CT Council of Language Teachers, CT, United States.
Gleason, J. and Tu, I. (Mar. 27-30, 2018). Theory for what? Scaffolding ESOL teacher
knowledge of SLA. Paper presented at the TESOL 2018 International Convention & English Language Expo, IL
Tu, I. and Chiu, Y. (Mar. 24-27, 2018). Cultivating Self-Directed Learners in Chinese
Classroom: A Case Study of Snowball Writing Practice at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), IL
Tu, I. (Nov. 20, 2017). A Comparison Study of Paper-based, Digital Text-based, and Video
Based Writing Feedback in a College ESL Classroom. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Faculty Research Tapas in SCSU, CT
Tu, I. (Mar. 15-18, 2017). Does the “Best Practices” Help Students’ Self-Directed
Learning in Second Language Writing? A Qualitative Study on Relation between Teacher’s Written Responses and Students’ Self-Directed Learning. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), OR
Teaching Interests
- Chinese Language
- Second Language Theories
- Bilingualism
- Instructional Technology in Language Teaching