Zhongqi Shi

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 615 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTWR 11:00-11:30, 12:45-1:30
Phone: 212-854-0660
Email: zs2132@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Cognitive Studies in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Applied Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University
BA: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Beijing Language and Culture University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4012 Business Chinese I
CHNS GU4013 Business Chinese II
CHNS GU4112 Advanced Business Chinese I
CHNS GU4113 Advanced Business Chinese II

Research Interests

Goals Theory and Motivation
Instructional Technology and Multimedia
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Teaching Chinese for Special Purposes

Dr. Zhongqi Shi has been at Columbia University teaching Chinese language and culture for more than 15 years. He has developed and taught Chinese language courses of all levels and specializes in Chinese for Business Purposes. He authored several textbooks that are widely used in the US and China. Dr. Shi is a frequent presenter at national and international professional conferences. Currently he serves on the Board of Chinese Languages Teachers Association (CLTA-USA), and has been elected as the Vice President of the largest Chinese teachers association in the United States. He also directed Columbia’s Business Chinese and Internship program in Shanghai from 2008-2016.

Publications

Needs Analysis in Teaching Chinese for Special Purposes: From Theory to Practice (专用汉语教学需求分析：从理论到实践), ChineseLanguage Teaching Methodology and Technology: Vol. 3 (2). 2020. Available at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cltmt/vol3/iss2/7

1997-2017 Business Chinese Teaching and Research Overview. International Chinese Language Education), 4(4), 6-19. 2019.

Student-teacher goal alignment: Conceptualizing, measuring, and determining its effect on interaction and motivation, In X. H. Wen, & X. Jiang (Eds.), Studies on Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language” (CLTA Monograph V), 2018.

The importance of students and teachers having congruent goals for Chinese language learning, Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching, 2016.

Pragmatic development in a study-abroad setting: A comparison between heritage and non-heritage Chinese learners. Global Chinese Language and Culture Education, 2014.

Word selection ratio and core wordlist for Business Chinese textbooks, Applied Linguistics, 2012.

Textbooks

Winning Strategies (V1): Learning Business Chinese through Real Companies《商务中文案例教程－策略卷》 (China Translation & Publishing Corporation; Editor-in-chief/Lead author)

Winning Strategies (V2): Cross-cultural Cases. 《商务中文案例教程－文化卷》 (China Translation & Publishing Corporation; Editor-in-chief/co-author)

Winning Strategies (V3): Real Talks in Business settings. 《商务中文案例教程－对话卷》 (China Translation & Publishing Corporation, in press; Editor-in-chief/co-author)

Understanding China – for Advanced Readers. 《理解中国－高级汉语教程》 (Peking University Press; Lead author)

Excellence in Business Chinese – Practical Application. 《卓越汉语－公司实战》 (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press; Editor-in-chief /Lead author)

Business Chinese Vocabulary Handbook (Intermediate level). 《商务汉语词汇手册－中级》. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press. Manuscript under review.

Shaoyan Qi

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 510 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W 2:15-5:15
Phone: (212) 854-3604
Email: sq2106@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdD: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Education, Villanova University
MA: Linguistic and Socio-cultural Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton

Classes Taught

CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN2202 Second Year Chinese N II
CHNS UN1010 Introductory Chinese
CHNS GU 4904 Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language

Research Interests

Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy
Task-Based Language Teaching

Shaoyan’s teaching career began at a weekend school for children adopted from China in a suburban area of Philadelphia. Before she joined Columbia at 2004, she taught Chinese language at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, and Middlebury Summer School. Shaoyan has taught all levels of Chinese language classes and linguistic courses at both Columbia and Teachers College.  She is the main author of the award-winning textbook series Discover China (http://www.mydiscoverchina.com/components/ ). 

Publications

Implementing TBLT in an online Chinese class for beginners (2024), in Lambert C. (ed) Designing tasks for teaching foreign languages, Cambridge University Press.

Introduction: Why should second/foreign language teachers tune in to instructed SLA? (2015). Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 15 (2), pp. i-iv. Teacher’s College, Columbia University: New York

Discover China (2014). Macmillan: Hong Kong

Computer-assisted second language teaching, learning, and research (2011). Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 11 (2), pp. 27-28. Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

“The Selective Fossilization Hypothesis and its Putative Implications for Second Language Teaching” “Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 2009)

Book Contribution Chinese Grammar Made Easy—A practical and effective guide for teachers (Yale University Press, 2008)

“Questions for Pedagogy and Research” (Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 2007)

Yuan-Yuan Meng

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 615 Kent Hall
Office Hours: R 3:00-5:00
Phone: (212)854-0660
Email: ym11@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdM: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
BA: Education, with a minor in English, National Taiwan Normal University

Classes Taught

UN1101-UN1102 First-year Chinese N I & II
UN1111-UN1112 First-year Chinese W I & II
UN2201-UN2202 Second-year Chinese N I & II
UN2221-UN2222 Second-year Chinese W I & II
CHNS GU4015-GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese I & II
CHNS GU4014-GU4015 Media Chinese I & II

Research Interests

Formulaic Language
Formative Assessment
Second Language Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Acquisition
Stylistic Features of Chinese Journalistic Language

Yuan-Yuan Meng is Senior Lecturer in Chinese. She is also a certified tester for the Chinese Oral Proficiency Interview by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Her research interests include formulaic language, formative assessment, second language reading, writing, and vocabulary acquisition, and stylistic features of Chinese journalistic language. Her most recent publications include “Written Corrective Feedback: A Review of Studies Since Truscott 1996,” “A curious Lexicographic Relic of the Cultural Revolution (co-authored with David Branner), and “A dynamic view on morphosyntactic accuracy and complexity in dyadic interaction.” She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled: A dictionary of Chinese idioms.

Publications

Meng, Y. (2019). A dynamic view on morphosyntactic accuracy and complexity in dyadic interaction. In Z.-H. Han (ed.), Profiling learner language as a dynamic system (pp. 17-47). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.          “Written Corrective Feedback: A Review of Studies Since Truscott 1996″ (Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2013)
“A Curious Lexicographic Relic of the Cultural Revolution” (The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2013; co-author)
“Syntactic yoga in Chinese-English lexicography” (Zhōnghuá zìdiǎnyánjiū, 2010; co-author)
Book Chapter David and Helen in China: An intermediate course in modern Chinese (Yale University Press, 1999; co-author)