Linfei Yi is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition of Chinese, Chinese sociolinguistics, and everyday cultural and linguistic practice in Chinese communities in the United States and in ethnic Zhuang minority in southwest China. She has been involved in diverse teaching contexts, college-level classes, intensive summer language program at Indiana University, prep-Chinese flagship program at the University of Mississippi, STARTALK summer program, Chinese summer program in Spain. She has presented her research at many important national and international conferences, such as MLA (Modern Language Association), SLRF (Second Language Research Forum), AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics), and AAA (American Anthropological Association).