Students of Chinese Background

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Location: Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2

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About the Speaker: Agnes He

Agnes Weiyun He is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Founder and Director of the Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication at Stony Brook University.  Her research centers on the impact of globalization and immigration on language and cultural practices, with a focus on the socialization of Chinese as a heritage language, and on the development of intercultural communicative competence by speakers of additional languages. Her most recent book is Voices of Immigration: A Serial Narrative Ethnography of Language Shift (Cambridge University Press, 2025).