Shaoyan Qi

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M 12:00-1:00 pm
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

Research Interests

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

Shaoyan Qi has been teaching in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) at Columbia University since 2004. She has taught Chinese language courses at all levels, as well as linguistics courses at both Columbia and Teachers College. She is the lead author of the award-winning Discover China textbook series.

Her research is closely informed by her commitment to effective classroom practice and responsiveness to students’ learning needs. From 2008 to 2017, she also served as a teacher trainer in a certificate program at Teachers College. She approaches her work as a researcher, teacher, and teacher trainer as deeply interconnected.

Shaoyan served as a member of the Lecturer Advisory Committee (LAC) from 2022 to 2025 and as its Chair from 2024 to 2025. She is currently a lecturer representative on the Arts & Sciences Policy and Planning Committee (2025–2028).

Publications

S., Qi (In press). Implementing TBLT in an online Chinese class for beginners [Case Study], in Lambert C. (ed) Designing tasks for teaching foreign languages, Cambridge University Press.

S., Qi (2015). 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

S., Qi & Q. Tan (2014). Discover China, Book IV. Macmillan: Hong Kong

S., Qi (2013). Discover China, Book III.  Macmillan: Hong Kong

S., Qi & J., Zhang (2012). Discover China, Book II. Macmillan: Hong Kong

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

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