Presenters Bio
Bing Mu is Assistant Professor of Chinse at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include intercultural communication and competence, study abroad, and pedagogical material development. In particular, she is interested in implementing intercultural pedagogical approaches to enhance learners’ intercultural communicative competence in study abroad contexts. To this end, she co-authored Action! China: A Field Guide to Using Chinese in the Community, a task-based field guide designed specifically to connect classroom learning with real-life communication in the local community in Chinese study abroad contexts. Her current research focuses on examining intercultural communication through the lens of intention for the purpose of enhancing learners’ intercultural communicative competence.