Profile

Dr. Jack Liu is an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of Chinese Program at California State University- Fullerton. Dr. Liu taught courses in Chinese as a foreign language, contemporary Chinese culture, and international business.

Degrees

Ph.D., Foreign Language Education, Purdue University

Certificate, Management, Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University

Master of Arts, Business Communication, Eastern Illinois University

Master of Education, Educational Administration, Eastern Illinois University

Research interests

Curriculum Development

International Education

International Business

Heritage language

Community Service Learning

Honors

Outstanding Faculty Award in Scholarly Creativity. California State University, Fullerton (2010)

Outstanding Faculty Award in External Community Service. California State University, Fullerton (2009).

Outstanding Faculty Award in Collaborative Teaching. California State University, Fullerton (2008).

Outstanding Service-Learning Instructor Award, California State University, Fullerton (2007)

Awards

1. Wang Family Fellow Award ($10,000). California State University. Business Language Research in China (2010)

2. Participant in Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) ($1.2Million) of U.S. Department of Education with Walnut Valley Unified School District (WVUSD) and College of Education (2010)

3. Domestic Travel Grant ($ 500) supporting the academic trip to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan (2010)

4. California State University Discipline Research Project Grant ($7,000) with faculty members from CSU

LA and CSU Long Beach, developing critical issues in Chinese language learning (2009 ~ 2010)

5. 3 WTU release time for developing Chinese 407 by the H & SS Dean’s office Spring (2009)

6. Untenured Faculty Development Grant ($6, 500), California State University, Fullerton (2008 ~2009)

7. Untenured Faculty Development Grant ($6, 500), California State University, Fullerton (2007 ~ 2008)

8. College of Humanities & Social Science Grant ($6, 200) with Jie Tian and Dr. Laichen Sun,

Building up Chinese collection in Pollak Library, California State University, Fullerton (2006)

Invited Lectures

Liu, J. (2010). Chinese language and Culture workshop, Walnut Valley United School District.

Liu, J. (2010). Service Learning in a Language Curriculum, The 7th Annual Languages Conference

San Diego Mesa College, April 23.

Liu, J. (2009). Life Experience of Elderly Chinese-American and Service Learning. Presented at the Osher

Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), Fullerton, June 18^th .

Liu, J. (2009). Educational Issues of Young Chinese American. Presented at the Chinese Scholars Association

at University of Southern California, February 1^st.

Courses Taught at Cal State Fullerton

Chinese 101: Fundamental Chinese - A

Chinese 102: Fundamental Chinese – B

Chinese 299: Directed Study

Chinese 310: Mandarin Chinese in the Business World

Chinese 311: Mandarin Chinese for International Business

Chinese 315: Introduction to Chinese Civilization

Chinese 325: Contemporary Chinese Culture

Modern Languages 495: Internship in Foreign Languages

Modern Languages 496: Student-to-Student Tutorials

Modern Languages 499: Independent Study

New Course Proposal Development

Chinese 203: Intermediate Chinese – A (from 3 units to 5 units)

Chinese 204: Intermediate Chinese – B

Chinese 225: Business Chinese

Chinese 301: Advanced Chinese Writing

Chinese 407: Chinese through Film

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Liu, J. (2010). Assessing Students’ Language Proficiency: A New Model of Study Abroad

Program in China. Journal of Studies in International Education, 14(5). Sage Publications.

2. Liu, J. (2010). The View from the Study Abroad Program in China. Academic Exchange

Quarterly, 14(3).

3. Liu, J. (2010). English Writing in Public High Schools in China and America: A Comparison Analysis.

International Journal of Language, Society and Culture, 30, 54-62.

4. Liu, J. (2009). Intercultural Rhetorical Pattern Differences in English Argumentative Writing. Journal

of English as an International Language, 4, 93-109.

5. Liu, J. & Shibata, S. (2008). Why college students want to learn Asian languages: A comparative study

of motivational factors for the selection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Journal of

the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 5, 33-55.

6. Liu, J. (2007). Placement of the thesis statement in English and Chinese argumentative essays: A study
of contrastive rhetoric. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 4 (1), 122-139.

Refereed Conference Papers (With Full Text)

1. Liu, J. (2010). Cross-campus Collaboration on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning, Paper presented at the 13th CSU Symposium on University Teaching, April 24, California State University at San Bernardino.

2. Liu, J. (2010). Placement Exam Instrument for Heritage Learners of Chinese. Paper (with full text) presented at the First International Heritage Language Conference, February 20, UCLA, Los Angeles,

California.

3. Liu, J. (2009). How a Community Service-Learning Approach Supports Advanced Heritage Language Learners. Paper (with full text) presented at the Annual Meeting of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), November 21, San Diego, California.

4. Liu, J. (2009). Intercultural Rhetorical Pattern Differences in the English Argumentative Writing. Paper (with full text) presented at the 5^th Intercultural Rhetoric Conference, June 11 – 13, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

5. Liu, J. (2007). Chinese Heritage Language Teaching and Community Service-learning. Paper (with full text) presented at the Annual Meeting of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), November 16, San Antonio, TX.

Refereed Conference Presentations

Carr, N., & Liu, J. (2008). Validating the Use of a Single Rating Scale to Assess Heritage and Non-Heritage

Learners’ Writing Ability: A Triangulation Approach. Presented at the 30th Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June, 25 – 28.

Liu, J., & Lo, J. (2006). Service-Learning Involving Upper-Division Foreign Language Courses in Senior

Centers. Presented at the Conference on Community Engagement, September 22, Fullerton.

CA.

Liu, J., & Tussing, M. (2006). Developing A SHINE Project: Creating Video and PowerPoint for Advanced Chinese Courses. Presented at the 8th Annual DigitalStream: Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Culture Conference, at California State University, Monterey Bay, March, 25.

Liu, J. (2003). Qualitative Needs Assessment for Executive, Presented at Business Chinese Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 11^th .

Liu, J. (2003). Designing an Immersion Business Chinese Program – A Purdue University Case. Presented at the International Conference on Studying and Teaching Chinese Language and Culture in a Multicultural Environment. New York University, May 3.

Course Materials Developed

Liu, J. (Edit) (2010). China Market Research for CHIN 311. Titan Bookstore.

Liu, J. (Edit) (2009). College Chinese: Culture and Writing for CHIN 202. 109 pages, Titan Bookstore.

Liu, J. (Edit) (2009). Chinese Companies in U.S.A for CHIN 310. 200 pages, Titan Bookstore.

Liu, J. (Edit) (2009). Modern China for CHIN 325. Titan Bookstore.

Liu, J. (Edit) (2007). Chinese Civilization for CHIN 315. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 139780618975730

Professional Service

Conference Session Organizer: The First International Heritage Language Conference, February 20,

UCLA, Los Angeles, California (2010).

Service as a Refereed Reviewer

1. Peer Reviewer, MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching),

World Languages for the Chinese section (2010).

2. Refereed Textbook Reviewer: Chinese Graded Reader Series (2009). Macmillan Publishers. UK.

3. Refereed Textbook Reviewer: Discover China series (2009). Macmillan Publishers. UK.

4. Refereed Book Reviewer: Ning, C. & Montanaro, J. (2009). Encounters: Chinese Language and

Culture . Yale University Press. New Haven, CT.

5. Refereed Panel Reviewer: Second Annual Conference on Literature, Language, and Linguistics,

California State University, Fullerton, March 6, 2008.

6. Refereed Book Reviewer: Xu, J. (Eds.) (2007). Chinese for the Global Community. Boston, MA:

Thomason Press. ISBN: 978-730-308-4172

7. Refereed Panel Reviewer: First Annual Conference on Literature, Culture & Languages, California

State University, Fullerton, March 7^th, 2007.

8. Refereed Panel Reviewer: The Conference on Community Engagement: Engagement through the

Disciplines, Fullerton, CA. September 22, 2006.

9. Refereed Panel Reviewer: The 6th International Service-Learning Research Conference, Portland,

Oregon, October 14-16, (2006)

10. Curriculum Consultant: Walnut Valley Unified School District (WVUSD), Foreign Language

Assistance Program (FLAP) with U.S. Department of Education.

11. Curriculum Consultant: Saddleback Valley Unified School District (SVUSD), exploring alternative

courses of study for their high school students, including AP Chinese courses, traditional and online

Chinese courses, under 2009 Federal Language Assistance Program grant.

12. Supervisor: Community Service-learning Project. Helping K-8 Chinese heritage learners to solve their

language learning problems in South Coast Chinese Cultural Center in Irvine, Tzu Tchi Academy

in Tustin (2008).

13. Supervisor: Community Service-learning Project. Interviewing senior immigrants in Happy Day Care

Center, Brea, CA (2006-2009)

14. Indiana State Representative: National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI) Program (2005)