Xiaomeng Zhang is a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Penn in 2020, she taught Chinese at Indiana University in Bloomington from 2012 to 2014, and at Arizona State University from 2014 to 2020. She has taught all levels of Chinese. Xiaomeng earned her Bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Beijing Language and Culture University, and her Master’s degree in Chinese Language Pedagogy from Indiana University in Bloomington. She also holds a graduate certificate in Computer Assisted Language Learning from Arizona State University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Arizona State University, with research specialties in Chinese second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, and computer-assisted language learning.