Jeff Lamb

Jeff Yáng Jíe Lamb is the dean of Sēn Lín Hú, the Chinese Language Village from mid-July through August.

Yáng Jíe has worked at Sēn Lín Hú as a senior counselor and then as teacher in the four-week high school credit sessions. His history with Concordia Language Villages goes back about 18 years, when he was a two-week villager for two years, followed by two years as a credit villager. 

Yáng Jíe earned his B.A. at the University of Iowa, double majoring in Asian language and literature and comparative literature.  He is an M.A. candidate at the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, National Taiwan Normal University. 

His overseas study includes the international Chinese language program at National Taiwan University, 2004-2005; Council for International Education Exchange, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1998; China Educational Tours, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 1997; and school year abroad in Beijing, 1994. 

Yáng Jíe teaches at Shady Side Academy, Senior School, in Pittsburgh, Penn.  From 2001 through 2004, he taught English and Kindergarten English in Taipei, Taiwan.  Prior to teaching, he did translating and editing work.