Yuchan Gao (Blanche)

PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies; Arizona State University-Tempe

Email: [email protected]

• Ludic keywords:
  • tabletop game, video games, social impact games, puzzle game, strategy game, (virtual) escape rooms
• Language keywords:
  • CALL, ESL/EFL, language related episodes, sociocultural SLA, language learning through meaningful interaction, multimedia literacy
• Pedagogy keywords:
  • game-based learning and teaching, game studies, task-based approaches, content-integrated approaches

👨‍🏫 Profile

Blanche is a PhD candidate and research assistant in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies at Arizona State University. She is interested in exploring how to use games and game-mediated activities to support second language learners. In particular, her dissertation investigates learners’ multimodal interaction and language related episodes in a secondary school content (science) class. She has worked as an English language instructor as well as a curriculum director in the US and China.

🧪 Research connections

• Orcid
• AAAL Database

💬 Social connections

• LinkedIn