Ling Yan

SENIOR LECTURER IN CHINESE

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTWR 3:00-4:00
Teaching Hours: MTWR 4:10-5:15, MWR 6:10-7:25
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: ly2131@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics, University of Kansas (2005)
MA: Applied Linguistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (1996)
BA: British Literature, Northwest University (1986)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4015 Fourth Year Chinese I
CHNS GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Teaching Pedagogy and Culture
Syntax and Prosodic-Syntax

Ling Yan started teaching Chinese in 1999 and has taught Chinese at all levels. She joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. In addition to teaching, she also serves as the Coordinator of Elementary Chinese. Before joining Columbia, she played an active role as a summer instructor at the University of Kansas.

Publications

Approaching China Textbook (1st Year) (Pekin University Press, 2015)
“Yuti (Register-Stylistic) Grammar and Textbook Compiling” (Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2013; co-author)
“An Analysis of the Chinese Prosodic Words in Rewritten Chinese” (Proceedings of The 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and 22th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), 2010)
201 Chinese Verbs (2nd edition) (Barrons Educational Series, Inc., 2007; co-author)
“A Statistic Analysis of VP Prosody in Modern Chinese Writing” (Harvard University Proceedings on New Trend of Chinese Written Language Teaching and Studies, 2005; co-author)
“The Syntax of the Ba-constructions” (Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004)

Jia Xu

LECTURER IN CHINESE

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 11:30-1:00
Teaching Hours: MTWR 8:50-9:55, 10:10-11:15
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: jx2196@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdM: Curriculum and Methodology of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University (2009)
BA: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language,Beijing Language and Culture University (2005)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN2202 Second Year Chinese N II

Research Interests

Classical Chinese
Psychology
Cognitive Studies in Education
Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy

Before Jia Xu joined the Columbia faculty in 2012, she had taught all levels of Chinese at BLCU. She served as program coordinator and language instructor in the foreign diplomats program of the Confucius Institute and Columbia University’s Summer Program in Beijing. She also set up and taught in the Chinese program at Bentley School in California. She has either authored or co-authored the Chinese Textbook for Foreign Diplomats, the Great Wall Chinese series, Medical Chinese books, and all levels of the new HSK and YCT. Jia Xu currently teaches first-year and second-year Chinese in EALAC.

Publications

Teaching Philosophy, Methods and Practices among U.S. K-12 Chinese Teachers (Intensive Chinese Language Educational Research, Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2011)
Chinese for Foreign Diplomats, publication pending
Great Wall Chinese(textbook and workbook), publication pending
Official Examination Papers of HSK Level 1 to Level 6 (Sinolingua, 2011; co-author)
Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level 3, 5 & 6 (The Commercial Press, 2010; co-author)
Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Speaking, (The Commercial Press, 2010; co-author)
Official Examination Papers of YCT Level 1 to 4 (The Commercial Press, 2009; co-author)

Chen Wu

LECTURER IN CHINESE

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MWF 10:30-11:30
Teaching Hours: MTWR 1:10-2:15, MWF 11:40-12:55
Phone: (212) 854-2311
Email: cw2725@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)
MA: Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA: Classical Chinese Philology, Fudan University (2009)
BA: Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University (2006)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4017 Fourth Year Chinese Advanced I
CHNS GU4018 Fourth Year Chinese Advanced II

Research Interests

Classical Chinese
Medieval Chinese Narrative Writings
Interrelation between City and Literature

Since Chen Wu joined the Columbia faculty in 2013, she has taught Intro to Classical Chinese and all levels of modern Chinese courses. She has had experience teaching Chinese language at Fudan University as well.

Publications

Translation: Heirloom and Exemplar: Research Concerning the ‘Legacy Portrait’ of Confucius among the Kong Descendants and in Schools and Academies during the Song through Yuan Periods by Julia K. Murray (Taida Journal of Art History, 2013)
Book Review: Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China (Tang yanjiu, 2012)
“Making Eternity out of Transience: Historical Illusion and Literary Truth in The Palace of Lasting Life” (The Michigan Journal of Asian Studies, 2012)
Translation: The Conflicting and Conflated Narratives of Shun and Noah” by William H. Nienhauser (the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences in Hong Kong, 2010)
“Xu Hun zaonian xingji zaikao” (Xuchang Xueyuan xuebao, 2008)
“Putian Linshi yu Tangdai Fujian wenhua de zhenxing: Lin Yun‘Muzhou cishi er fujun shendaobei’ kaolun”
(Quanzhou Shifan Xueyuan xuebao, 2008)
“Shilun Fanchuan nüxing ticai shi zhong de shidafu shijiao” (Xuehai, 2006)