Yi Guan

Yi Guan

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
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Biography

Yi Guan’s scholarly work focuses on strategy-based instruction, educational technology, and adult education. She has been invited to present at regional and national conferences such as CATESOL and TESOL. Her dissertation research employed the mixed methods approach and implemented a 3-phase research design to investigate how explicit listening strategy instruction might impact adult ESL students’ listening comprehension performance.

Dr. Guan has over 10 years of experience working with language learners in various academic and community settings in China and the United States. Dr. Guan earned her Ed.D degree in 2014 from the International and Multicultural Education Department at the University of San Francisco.

Expertise

  • Strategy-Based Instruction
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Teaching English as Second Language
  • Instructor, ESL Department, City College of San Francisco
  • Lecturer, American Language Program, California State University East Bay

Research Areas

  • Strategy-Based Instruction
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Teaching English as Second Language
  • Bilingualism/Bilingual Education
  • Digital Media & Learning
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning

Education

  • University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Ed.D. International & Multicultural Education: Second Language Acquisition, 2014 Minor: Digital Media & Learning
  • University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language, 2009
  • Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China B.E. in Business English, 2007

Prior Experience

  • Instructor, ESL Department, Chabot College
  • Instructor, ESL Department, College of Alameda