Kaidi Chen

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 501 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TW 2:40 -4:10 PM
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: kc3640@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD ABD: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, University of Connecticut
MA: Chinese Linguistics, University of Macau
BA: Chinese Language and Literature (with Honors), Lanzhou University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I

Research Interests

Psycholinguistics (speech perception and recognition)
Sociolinguistics (language attitude and sociophonetics)
Second language acquisition (L2 speech)
Language pedagogy (communicative approach and intercultural competence)
Open science and reproducible research practices
Data analysis and visualization

Kaidi Chen joined the Columbia EALAC department as a lecturer in the Fall of 2022. He works on applied linguistics in general. He has published (or edited) articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, and presented projects at regional, national and international conferences in many strands in this field. He is also an experienced language educator passionate about real-world pedagogical innovations. He is a core collaborator of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant project titled “An Engaging Digital Curriculum for Intermediate Chinese Language and Culture” from 2021 to 2022. His role in this project is mainly to work on the implementation of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship in the Chinese language classroom. He is one of the contributors to the book Teaching Beginning Chinese Grammar: Communicative Strategies and Activities, published by Boston Cheng&Tsui in 2020. He has experience in all levels of Chinese language/culture instruction, and domain-specific language/culture courses (e.g., Contemporary Chinese Film and Business Chinese). Prior to Columbia, he taught at Allegheny College, Trinity College, and Middlebury Summer Language School.