Xinyu Z. from Urbana, IL

I am a second year student of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with an urban planning major. I come from China and already got a Chinese Teaching Certification. Last summer, I had some experience about teaching Chinese. My student was a fresh year college boy from Russia. He has some basic knowledge about PINYIN, a system of Chinese pronunciation and Chinese input. However, his writing and speaking skills were a little bit weak, so that I designed classes for him focusing on writing an