Blanche Gao

Academic Researcher,

EdPlus at ASU

blanche.gao@asu.edu

1365 N Scottsdale Rd SkySong 3 Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Mail code: 9508

Campus: Scottsdale
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Long Bio

Yuchan (Blanche) is a qualitative academic researcher at the EdPlus Action Lab at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in Learning, Literacies, & Technologies from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Her interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of second language acquisition and pedagogies, learning technologies (with a digital game focus), and instructional design.

She received her BA degree in Linguistics from Southern Illinois University and MEd degree in Curriculum and Instruction and TESOL Certificate from the University of Virginia. She worked as a secondary school ESOL instructor and curriculum director as well as a university instructor in the US and China.

Education

Ph.D., Learning, Literacies, and Technologies, Arizona State University-Tempe

Graduate Certificate, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Arizona State University-Tempe

M. Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Virginia-Charlottesville

Teaching Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, the University of Virginia-Charlottesville

BA, Linguistics, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=WgrABDkAAAAJ