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Li-Hsien Yang, East Asian Programs Director, and Ben Pearson, Digital Technologies Associate, are both Language Teaching Specialization (LTS) MA graduates that have come to work full-time at CASLS.

During her time at LTS, Li-Hsien focused on Chinese language, online learning, and materials and curriculum design. Now at CASLS, she uses her knowledge of language activities and theories to help her students, who aim to be language teachers. She also appreciates the worldwide connections that she built in LTS, and feels fortunate to be able to apply what she learned in LTS into her domestic and international work with language teachers.

Ben, while in the LTS program, developed a master’s project on teaching negotiation skills through board and card games, with the goal of giving language teachers ideas for how to use games to teach semantics and pragmatics. Ben credits his comprehensive education in LTS, learning pedagogy combined with actual application, for his professional success at CASLS. He remembers starting at CASLS as an intern and realizing the intersection of his gaming interests and strengths as an educator, and recognizing what a great fit CASLS is for him.