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Dr. Li Jin received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition/Instructional Technology at University of South Florida, Tampa, USA in 2007. She is Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level Chinese language and culture courses at DePaul since 2008. Her research interests include ecology, transdisciplinary approach to second/foreign language pedagogy, and computer-assisted language learning. Her publications have appeared in leading journals in the field of applied linguistics, for instance, the Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Language Learning & Technology, the CALICO Journal, etc. Her recent book is A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese Language Teaching: Collaborative Pedagogy Across Languages, Disciplines, Communities, and Borders (co-edited with Dr. Nobuko Chikamatsu, Routledge, 2023). Dr. Li Jin has been working closely with the Chicago Chinatown community and is interested in creating more opportunities to engage the DePaul community with the local Asian communities and provide more opportunities for DePaul students to apply their classroom knowledge in real-life practice.