Ling He
Department of English
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Ling He
Dr. Ling He is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where she teaches academic writing to domestic and global undergraduate students enrolled in the First-Year Writing Program (FYWP). She specializes in English writing assessment with a focus on the validity of using standardized English tests to assess the English writing competence of language minority students in universities. Her current research interest is in classroom language assessment and the role such assessment plays in enhancing students’ success in learning and refining instructors’ practices of teaching academic writing. Dr. He has been actively conducting qualitative as well as quantitative studies on assessing university students’ academic writing competence; she has published research articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals such as Language Testing and Assessing Writing and shared her practices of classroom assessment in FYWP at UIC through her publication in TESOL Connections. Dr. He won the Lecturer Distinguished Teaching Award for FYWP at UIC in 2019 in recognition of her “innovation in course design, care in lesson planning, and excellence in student writing.”
Dr. Ling He received her Ph.D. degree in Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she had also earned a Master of Arts degree in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology. In addition, she received a Master of Education degree in English as a Second Language and Computer Education at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Before joining UIC, Dr. He had years of experience teaching English at universities in the US, Canada, and China.
He is a 2024-25 Action Research Scholar.
Ling He
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