LI Shuai is Associate Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University, Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Coordinator of Chinese program in the Department, a member on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association, U.S.A. His research interests include acquisition, assessment and internationalization of Chinese as a second language, with a particular focus on pragmatic development in Chinese. His articles have appeared in international journals, such as Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, Language Assessment Quarterly, System, Language Teaching, Chinese as a Second Language Research, Pragmatics and Cognition, Language Testing in Asia, etc.