Jingyi Shao holds an MA in Language Teaching Studies at the University of Oregon. Currently she is a doctoral researcher and her research focuses on multimodal strategies in higher education Mandarin Chinese classrooms within the Nordic contexts. Her study explores how multimodal strategies influence the linguistic, educational, psychological, social, and political dimensions of language learning.

Research interests include intercultural communicative competence, pragmatics, and multimodality in language teaching and learning.

Jingyi has been consistently teaching and co-teaching Mandarin Chinese as a foreign and second language in both China and the United States for eight years. She taught business Chinese to adult learners in China for three years, and later taught in the United States for five years across various educational contexts, including K–12 and higher education.