Cheng Zhaohui, graduated from the Department of Chinese, Nanjing University in 1986, and got her MA in Chinese Language from the same university in 1989, then taught in the Department of Foreign Language (the now College of International Culture and Education) in Nanjing Normal University. In 1994, she began her PhD study in the Department of Linguistics of University of Florida under the supervision of Professor Qu Chengxi, with the research focus on second language acquisition and Chinese teaching pedagogy, and at the same time taught Chinese in the university. She got her PhD in 2000. Since 2005, she has been teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages of Georgia Perimeter College. She has published some academic papers on Chinese teaching and acquisition.
