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Huang, Lihong

Lihong Huang has taught all levels of Chinese language courses as well as created some upper level courses related to Chinese culture, society and politics, such as Topics in Current Affairs and Chinese in Diplomatic Discourse. In the spring semester of 2010, Georgetown students nominated her as one of the faculty members who they feel have most shaped their undergraduate experience at Georgetown in a meaningful way. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, task-based language teaching, and language training and assessment for high-stakes tests. She has trained U.S. government employees for the Defense Language Proficiency Test 5 (DLPT) as well as worked as a linguist on test development for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She also holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education from Georgetown University.