Recommendation Letter 3

January 21, 2010

To Whom It May Concern,

I am privileged to recommend Ms. Yi Liu, my colleague at the Modern Language Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, as a teacher’s candidate.

Ms Yi Liu is an outstanding Chinese instructor. She is a good speaker and communicator who delivers her messages clearly in class. She devotes her time to planning each lesson in a detailed written form. She is always able to bring innovative and interesting methods into a student-centered classroom, and maintain the students’ attention. She also diligently posts supplemental materials for students to study on our online program. Being a person of integrity, she regularly brings certain historical and contemporary issues related to course to class for discussions, and encourages students to be independent thinkers. In order to improve the course, she periodically collects the feedback from students about her teaching, and is open to all criticism from other faculty members.

Ms. Yi Liu establishes a close relationship with her students. As a matter of fact, all her students requested to continue their second level study with her. Her classroom teaching in the Fall 2009 was so successful that it prompted our increasing one of Chinese class sessions in the Spring 2010 semester. Both the department and the students have highly evaluated her teaching performance.

With her strong academic background in Chinese literature and language, her English mastery, pedagogical training, and years of experience, I feel she will do an outstanding job and become an asset to the school district fortunate enough to accept her application for employment

Sincerely yours,

Fei Wang
Assistant Professor
Modern Language Department
Borough of Manhattan Community College,
City University of New York
            212-220-8107    
Email: fwang@bmcc.cuny.edu