Diane Neubauer, 杜雁子, taught Mandarin Chinese for 10 years in elementary, middle, and high schools before completing her PhD in Foreign Language and ESL Education at the University of Iowa in 2022. She teaches Chinese online, facilitates language teacher training, and teaches university teacher education courses. A former officer for ACTFL’s Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching special interest group, she is especially interested in how language teachers can facilitate students’ comprehension of target language, engagement in classroom learning, & development of intercultural competence. Check her YouTube channel for language learners & teachers (sometimes featuring her flock of backyard chickens. She also sometimes blogs here about language teaching.

​I currently serve as Past President on the Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Executive Board for Academic Year 2022-23, serving in prior years as Vice President, Secretary, and Chinese Language Representative. I served as a Teacher of the Year selection judge at the 2019 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT). I have presented hands-on workshops for language teachers across the United States and internationally, including in China and France. ​I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Hawai`i in 2018, and have been working in language teacher education in Hawai`i since 2012. My research ties language teaching practices with research in Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Construction Grammar with special attention on interactional competence, comprehension, context factors, and human categorization.