Our Team
Song Jiang
Director
Dr Song Jiang is the Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Center at UHM and an Associate Professor of Chinese in EALL, specializing in Chinese linguistics — with an emphasis on cognitive linguistics, contrastive analysis, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Chinese language pedagogy. Dr Jiang has extensive expertise in teaching Advanced/Superior level language skills to DOD employees and is a certified ILR Oral Proficiency Tester. He periodically teaches undergraduate-level survey courses on the Chinese language, lexicon, and studies of Chinese character, in addition to graduate-level courses on contemporary Chinese linguistics, second language acquisition, teaching methods, as well as research seminars on special Chinese linguistic topics. Dr Jiang frequently offers workshops on Chinese pedagogy, teaching material development, and is actively involved in collaborative projects on developing performance-based, content-based, and project-based language teaching pedagogies and curricular materials.
Jeno Calara
Student Helper
Jeno Calara is a Flagship student as well as one of the Student Helpers of the Center for Chinese Language Education. He is currently majoring in Accounting and minoring in Japanese. His responsibilities as a Student Helper at CCLE primarily involves photography work of the Center’s events and gatherings. His enrollment in the Flagship Program stems from his interest in learning foreign languages, particularly Chinese. Chinese is the civilizational basis for all the major cultures in the region, for instance, nations from Vietnam to Korea had all used Chinese in the past. His fascination of the language’s long cultural history inspired him to learn Chinese. By learning Chinese, he hopes to delve deeper into the antecedents of those civilizations while expanding his knowledge about the Sinophone world.