HAOHSIANG LIAO: My name is Haohsiang Liao.
I'm the senior lecturer directing the Chinese Language
Program here at MIT.
And since I've been here, I've been in charge of Chinese 101
to Chinese 104 and that's basically
the beginning level to the intermediate level of Chinese.
So my interest in teaching languages
started when I was a grad student in Taiwan.
That was this time that Taiwan started
to establish its first grad school of teaching Chinese
as a second language, which was about 1994.
So I was a grad student there and that
was the time I started to develop my interest
in teaching foreigners Chinese.
So I was there for three years and they
got me an opportunity to do an internship at Williams College.
So I was at Williams for one year and at Williams,
that was the eye-opening experience for me
and that was really the moment I decided to devote myself
into this profession.