  {"id":22615,"date":"2023-04-14T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/?p=22615"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:26:22","slug":"ming-tso-chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-language-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/2023\/04\/14\/ming-tso-chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-language-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ming-Tso Chien: Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22625\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ming-Tso Chien headshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-423x282.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-634x423.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-846x564.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy-951x634.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2023\/04\/Ming-Tso-Chien-outstanding-graduate-student-in-literacy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>Ming-Tso Chien is the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture Award. Ming-Tso holds a Ph.D. in Education (Literacy concentration) from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine. He completed his studies in September 2022 after defending his dissertation, titled &#8220;Identity and Language Socialization of Asian Transnational Adolescents Across Communities of Practice: A Critical Narrative Study.&#8221; Ming-Tso came to Maine in 2015 as a Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant in 91¸£Àû&#8217;s Modern Languages and Classics department, before joining the College of Education and Human Development as a doctoral student. In 2020, he earned a <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/2020\/02\/12\/ming-tso-chien-ph-d-candidate-explores-international-students-experiences-in-maine\/\">Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship<\/a> from the 91¸£Àû Graduate School. Currently, he serves as a research specialist and program coordinator in the English Language Teaching Programs of the Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (Fulbright Taiwan) in Taipei, Taiwan. His research and teaching interests revolve around topics such as critical studies of language and literacy practices, teacher education and advocacy, migration and transnationalism, intercultural communication as well as multimodal narrative inquiries. Congratulations, Ming-Tso, from the Literacy, Language and Culture faculty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ming-Tso Chien is the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"5","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Ming-Tso Chien is the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture 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