Shu-Ling Wu

Shu-Ling Wu is a Professor and Head of the Chinese Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). Before joining SIUC, she taught at the Defense Language Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Her research focuses on second language acquisition, language testing and assessment, applied cognitive linguistics, Chinese linguistics, and language pedagogy.

She has published in flagship journals such as Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, and Foreign Language Annals. She is the author of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and Applications (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics (Routledge, 2018), and Aviation Language in English and Chinese (Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2025). Her research has been supported by the ACTFL Research Priorities Initiative Grant, the US Chinese Language Teachers Association’s Jiede Empirical Research Grant, and the Language Learning journal.