Dr. Phyllis Zhang is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Chinese Language Program at George Washington University. A native Chinese speaker, Dr. Zhang received a Doctorate of Education in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University in New York. She is the author of David and Helen in China: An Intermediate Course in Modern Chinese (Yale University Press 1999, 2003) and Developing Chinese Fluency (intermediate to advanced; Cengage Learning Asia 2010). She also is a certified tester of Chinese language proficiency by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).