Xinzhou Hu

1230 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 (917) 969-1476 xh2225@tc.columbia.edu

EDUCATION
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Master of Arts in TESOL, expected 05/16
Hainan Normal University, Hainan, China
Bachelor of Arts in English Education, 06/14

LANGUAGES

Native speaker of Mandarin Chinese

Beginner of Japanese
Proficient English speaker:
Scored 110/120 in TOEFL test;
Certificate of Business English Higher, Council of Europe Level C1, issued by University of Cambridge ESOL
Exams;
Certificate of Test for English Majors Grade 8, issued by National Foreign Language Teaching Advisory Board
of China;
First Prize Award in the Provincial Final of 2013 National English Public Speaking Contest;
First Prize Award in the Provincial Final of 2013 National English Writing Contest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ESL Tutor, American Language Program, Columbia University, 10/15 present

Tutoring speaking and listening to adult ESL learners

ESL Teacher, Community English Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, 02/15-present
Teaching intermediate English to adult ESL students

ESL Teacher, Chinatown Literacy Project, New York 09/14- 12/14

Taught beginner level English to adult ESL students

TA, Hainan Normal University, 09/12-07/2013

Assisted Phonetics training for freshmen

Liaison, Boao Forum for Asia, Boao, China, 04/12-04/14

Liaison for Mr. David Sandalow, Assistant Minister of United States Department of Energy, Faculty of
SIPA, Columbia University and for Mr. Badawi, former president of Malaysia.

Guest Reporter, World Petroleum Industry Magazine, China, 11/12

Interviewed Michael Ekhart, President of National City Bank of New York; interviewed Manfred Shrenk,
Deputy President & Treasurer of ISOCARP. Interviews are published in the 2 nd issue of 2013 in World
Petroleum Industry Magazine.

Translator, The Roundtable Conference on China-Africa Cooperation, 11/11

Assisted Adelin Nimubona, Counselor of Embassy of the Republic of Burundi in China

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Literature Review, Contrastive Speech Acts of Complimenting between Chinese and Americans, Teachers
College, Columbia University, 05/2015

Literature Review, L1 Transfer in the Production of English Lexical Stress, Teachers College, Columbia
University, 04/15

Empirical Study, A Grammar and Writing Achievement Test: Assessing Intermediate Adult Learners in the
Community English Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, 12/15

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI), 10/2015

Served as a conference attendee

Applied Linguistics Winter Conference (ALWC), 03/15

Served as a conference attendee and student volunteer

SKILLS

Experience with designing and executing lesson plans and teaching English as a second language to students of
diverse ages, skill levels, and language backgrounds

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

Currently doing a project of language assessment