College of Arts and Sciences — Rhetoric and Language — English as a Second Language

Genevieve Leung

Assistant Professor

Genevieve Leung has a B.A. in Linguistics from U.C. Berkeley and dual M.A. degrees in Linguistics (TESOL) and Education (Language and Literacy) from U.C. Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught high school English in Japan, as well as English writing, effective communication, reading and vocabulary courses at Stanford University. She was the co-instructor of the TESOL Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, training novice ESL teachers in the fundamentals of TESOL. Genevieve is also interested in heritage language maintenance, particularly of Chinese Americans of Cantonese and Toisanese/Hoisan-wa language backgrounds.

Publications

Leung, G. (2012). Contemporary Hoisan-wa language maintenance in Northern California: Evidence from fourteen Frog Story narratives. International Multilingual Research Journal, 6.

Leung, G. & Wu, M.-H. (2012). Linguistic landscape and heritage language literacy education: A case study of linguistic rescaling in Philadelphia Chinatown. Written Language and Literacy, 15(1).

Leung, G. & Wu, M.-H. (2012). Critically problematizing the term "Chinese": Implications for diasporic research and language teaching. Journal of Modern Languages, 21.

Leung, G. (2011). Disambiguating the term "Chinese": An analysis of Chinese American surname naming practices. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 59(4).

Leung, G. & Wu, M.-H. (2011). Being a "professional" LCTL at a "professional" level: A call for the inclusion of multiple Chineses in "Chinese" language pedagogy. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 10.

Leung, G. (2011). Counterhegemonic discourses and shifting language ideologies of Hoisan-wa on the Internet. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 7.