Academic involvement




PRESENTATIONS

  • How to build an interactive and effective online classroom: the student’s perspective. Professional Development Workshop Series, Community-engaged learning and teaching, Vancouver, Canada, December 2020. https://chinese.arts.ubc.ca/community-engaged-learning-and-teaching-instructors-uniting-and-learning-how-to-build-communities-through-teaching/

  • An exploration of effective instruction between learning objectives and assessment. The 15th Canadian TCSL (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Association) Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, April 2019.

  • Alignment of course learning objectives with teaching practice and class activities in CHIN 341 for heritage students. Professional Development Workshop Series, Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 4, 2018.

  • Applying CEFR’s action-oriented approach in designing vocabulary learning materials for novice-level Chinese learners. The 14th Canadian TCSL Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, April 2018.

  • Interactive classroom activities for promoting Chinese learning. The 48th Annual Conference of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 2014.

  • Comparison of temporal advancement in the writing of three levels of learners of Chinese and Chinese native speakers. Annual Convention and World Language Expo, Orlando, Florida, November 2013.

  • Analyzing discourse functions of time adverbs Yìzhí andYíxiàng in Chinese. Annual Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2012.

  • A corpus-based discourse analysis of the model adverb kǒngpà in Chinese. Annual Conference of Teaching Chinese as aSecond Language, Tainan, Taiwan, October 2011.

CERTIFICATES OF STUDY

  • Test Writer Training Workshop: TOCFL Reading Test at CEFR B1 and B2 (8 hours). Steering Committee for the Test of Proficiency-Huayu, Taiwan, March 2018.

  • Test Rater Training Workshop: TOCFL Speaking Test at CEFR A1 and A2 (8 hours). Steering Committee for the Test of Proficiency-Huayu, Taiwan, January 2018.

  • High quality pushed output of Ba Structures among novice learners: effective teaching principles and strategies (5 hours). Instructor: Miao-fen Tseng/ University of Virginia. National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, December 2016.

  • Practical courses about America for teachers of teaching in Chinese as a second language (3 hours). Chinese Language Center in Tunghai University, Taiwan. August 2016.


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