Jia Wang is currently working as a research associate at the Institute for International Studies of Nanjing University. She graduated from Beijing Normal University with a master’s degree in TCSL in 2012 and then worked as a Chinese teaching assistant for a year at Bucknell University in the USA. In 2018, she graduated from City University of Hong Kong with a Ph.D. degree in applied linguistics. Her main research interests include Chinese grammar, teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language, and second language acquisition. She has published papers in prestigious journals in linguistics, such as Chinese Teaching in the World, Lingua, and Modern Foreign Languages. She is also a co-author of the book Language as a Prism: Introduction to Cross-disciplinary Linguistics published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Since the start of her career at Nanjing University in 2019, Dr. Wang has been teaching several undergraduate courses to L2 Chinese learners, including ChineseListening, Advanced Chinese Writing, and Business Chinese Writing. She was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award in undergraduate education at Nanjing University in the year of 2020. Her recent research is on L2 Chinese writing, and she has been working on a research project Peer Assessment in online CFL writing, which is granted by Center for Language Education and Cooperation