Wang Yang
Assistant Professor
Educational Studies
University of South Carolina
United States of America
Biography
Yang Wang joined the Language and Literacy faculty at the University of South Carolina in August of 2014. She teaches three different courses to graduate students in M.Ed. program of Language and Literacy. These courses include: Reading Assessment, Teaching Reading through Children’s Literature, and Content Area Reading and Writing. Yang received her Ph.D. in Literacy and M.Ed. in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Prior to coming to the U.S., she taught English language and culture at a university in the Northeast of China. She now lives in Chapin, South Carolina with her husband and her newly born daughter, Coco.
Research Interest
Reading miscue analysis
Publications
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Gilles C, Carrillo LT, Wang Y, Stegall J, Bumgarner B. " Working with my mentor is like having a second brain/hands/feet/eyes": Perceptions of Novice Teachers. English Journal. 2013 Jan 1:78-86.
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Gilles C, Wang Y, Smith J, Johnson D. “I’m No Longer Just Teaching History.†Professional Development for Teaching Common Core State Standards for Literacy in Gilles C, Wang Y, Smith J, Johnson D. “I’m No Longer Just Teaching History.†Professional Development for Teaching Common Core State Standards for Literacy in Social Studies: By Identifying the Reading Strategies They Regularly Use within Their Disciplines, Content Area Teachers Are Better Able to Teach Students How to Derive Meaning from Texts. Middle School Journal. 2013 Jan 1;44(3):34-43.
