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Humanities Division
Lecturer in Chinese
Faculty
Cowell College Academic Building
104
Mon 8:20am-9:20am at Soc Sci 2 or by appointment
Cowell Academic Services
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. She asserts that language learning is a transdisciplinary practice to understand and connect to multiple cultures. Cultivating global citizens is her passion and determination to incorporate technology and language pedagogy.
- Self-Directed Learning in Digital Discourse
- Second Language Writing Feedback
- Teaching Language with Authentic Materials
- Educational technology and online teaching
- Chinese Language
- Second Language Theories
- Bilingualism
- Instructional Technology in Language Teaching
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
- Tu, I., & Bartlett, A., (Feb 29-Mar 2, 2024). Correlation Analysis of Language Proficiency in On-Ground and Online Instruction: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, HI, United States.
- Tu, I., (Feb 29-Mar 2, 2024). Towards Sustainable Online Teaching: Analyzing the Role of Technological Resource Allocation After Covid-19 at the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, HI, United States.
- Tu, I., (March 18-21, 2023). Using PICRAT Model to Enhance World Language Learners’ Communication Competence through Online Courses at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), OR, United States.
- Tu, I., Gleason, J., Cardone, R., & Bartlett, A., (June 2-6, 2022). To Teach Online or not to Teach Online: A Comparative Analysis of Proficiency Outcomes Pre-Pandemic and Post-2020 Across Five Languages. CALICO Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, United States.
- Tu, I & Bartlett, A. (Accepted on May 27, 2024) Language Learning Outcomes in On-Ground vs. Online Settings: Comparison and Correlation, The American Journal of Distance Education
- Tu, I (forthcoming) The Impact of Technological Resource Allocation on Sustainable Online Teaching in Higher Education: A Post-Covid Reflection, Education and Information Technologies
- 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, impact factor: 3.106)