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Yi-Hsien Liu

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Chinese
Yi-Hsien Liu
Email yihsienl@usc.edu Office THH 355 Office Phone (213) 740-3707

Research & Practice Areas

Chinese syntax; Second language acquisition; Language pedagogy

Education

  • Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Southern California, 2013

  • Conference Presentations

    • “Communicative tech tools and their application in CFL classroom” Keynote Lecture, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Second Languag, Invited, Spring 2022
    • “Online curriculum design and implementation” Keynote Lecture, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Second Languag, Invited, Spring 2021

    Other Presentations

    • “Make the “boring” materials fun again: what task-based learning can do for us”, Chinese Language Teachers Association Southern California Spring Workshop, , 2021-2022
    • “Ungrading the Language Classroom”, UCLA Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms conference, , 2021-2022
    • “Entering a New Stage of Teaching Business Chinese”, 2019 ACTFL Annual Conventions, , 2019-2020
    • “Curriculum Standardization: A College-Level Chinese Language Program as an Example “, International Conference of Chinese Languages Teaching and Research, , 2017-2018
    • “Getting Down to Business “, Beyond the Limited Scope: Chinese for Specific Purposes Conference, , 2017-2018

  • Book Chapter

    • Liu, Y., Hwang, H. (2022). V-gei v.s. Double Object Construction: the Mental Representation of the Mandarin V-gei Construction. New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax John Benjamins.