View Content #25084

CASLS would like to introduce three of our student interns!

Yuxin Cheng holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Utah and is currently seeking her Master’s degree in Language Teaching Studies from the University of Oregon. Yuxin has an established passion for language education and has taught Chinese Club for elementary students, Chinese Language and Culture at the American English Institute at the University of Oregon, and proctors STAMP tests on campus at the Yamada Language Center. Her interests lie specifically in immersion education, and she hopes “to become a Chinese teacher who inspires learners.”

Ngan Vu holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a certificate in writing and publishing from Drexel University and is currently seeking her Master’s degree in Language Teaching Studies from the University of Oregon. She teaches Vietnamese in the self-study language program at the Yamada Language Center and serves as a writing tutor at the University’s Teaching and Learning Center. Her interests include L2 literacy development and language pedagogy to serve the specialized needs of heritage language learners, and she believes that “each person has a unique gift.”

Logan Matz holds a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics with a minor in Chinese from Western Washington University and is currently seeking his Master’s degree in Language Teaching Studies from the University of Oregon. Currently, in addition to working at CASLS, he proctors language achievement testing at the Yamada Language Center. His interests include the pragmatics of academic spaces, applied linguistics, assessment reform, and the effects of virtual assistants on L2 learners. He feels that there is a “responsibility to…students to show them how amazing and useful language can be, and being taught how to teach is a critical step in learning to acknowledge that responsibility.”