Chuanren Ke （柯传仁）is Professor in the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Iowa, USA. He is Director of the University of Iowa Second Language Acquisition PhD Program. He received his PhD in Linguistics and PhD Minor in Psychology at Indiana University at Bloomington. His main area of research is in Chinese second language acquisition, instruction, and assessment in adult classroom settings. Professor Ke is currently working on a multi-year research project on study abroad supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. He has published widely in journals such as Modern Language Journal, Language Assessment Quarterly, Foreign Language Annals, Chinese as a Second Language, and Chinese Teaching in the World. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition (Routledge, 2018) and lead author of 《汉语口语教学》(北京大学出版社, 2012), 《汉语听力教学》 (北京大学出版社, 2009), and Task-Based Language Instruction: Chinese Speaking Class (The Ohio State University Foreign Language Publications, 2004). Professor Ke has twice (1999-2000; 2010-2011) served as President of The Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA. He is founder and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa.
