Meiqing Sun

Meiqing Sun holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. Her dissertation was a comprehensive study of possible syntactic influence from Mongolian language to Chinese language through language contact. She joined UNCG in 2012. Before coming to UNCG, she had worked at University of Pennsylvania, Flagship Chinese program at University of Mississippi and Duke University. Her research interests include second language acquisition, language teaching and pedagogy, language contact and language development, syntactic theory, cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics. Currently she is in charge of first year and second year Chinese language teaching, and organizing extracurricular activities for students. She is the founder and coordinator of Mandarin Corner and Chinese oral tutorial program, and the Faculty Advisor of Chinese Culture and Language Association at UNCG.