Wenlian Zhang

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 501 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MWF 10:30-11:30
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: wz2377@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Modern Chinese Language, Renmin University of China (2000)
BA: Chinese Language and Literature, Qufu Normal University (1991)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN2201 Second-Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN2202 Second Year Chinese N II
CHNS UN3003 Third-Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Linguistics
Pedagogy of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Modern Chinese Literature

Wenlian Zhang had taught Chinese in all levels at Beijing Language and Culture University (Beijing, China), BaeWha Women’s College (Seoul, South Korea) and University of Mary Washington (Virginia, USA). She joined Columbia University in 2016 and has been teaching various levels of Chinese language.

Publications

“”Barrage group “,” barrage culture “and” speech community “construction” (Review of city culture ,2016)
International Chinese Teacher’s Handbook: 81 questions for the new teachers (The Commercial Press, 2012)
“The perspective of Cultural consciousness of Chinese teaching from the cultural turn of translation” (Journal of Hainan Normal University, 2010)
“Literature teaching in middle and advanced Chinese teaching” (Heilongjiang Researches on Higher Education, 2011)
Study on Chinese teaching materials (The Commercial Press, 2006)