Name: Jie Gao Jie Gao graduated from Beijing University and Beijing Foreign Language Institute in the People’s Republic of China. He holds an MA equivalent. His original major was Polish language and literature. He taught English in China from 1963 and worked in China as a freelance interpreter and translator for many years. He came to LaGuardia Community College in 1990 as an exchange professor, and since then has been teaching ESL. He has served as ESL099 coordinator since 1995. His research interests include comparative rhetoric and methodologies of teaching English to speakers of Chinese. Gao is a major contributor to the book Get It? Got It! (New Century American English Living and Learning in the West), published in China in 2001 and now a bestseller there. He is co-author of the article “Essay of Changes: The Role of L1 in L2 Writing,” published in The English Record (Volume 51, Fall 2000). He is a member of the University Affirmative Action Committee (UAAC), CUNY. He has been selected three times for inclusion in Who’s Who Among American Teachers. In addition to ESL classes, he is currently teaching courses in Chinese language for heritage speakers and in Chinese literature. |