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Sue-mei Wu
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Associate Teaching Professor
in Chinese |
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Linguistics and Pedagogy, The
Ohio State University |
| Department Member Since: 2000 |
Personal
Statement
As a teaching professor in Chinese, I enjoy teaching and introducing Chinese
language, culture and society to my students. My goal is to maximize not
just their learning, but also their interest in and enjoyment of Chinese
language and culture. This goal has intertwined well with my research
interests, which focus on linguistics, pedagogy, computer-assisted language
learning, and folk performance.
Recently I have been occupied with developing course websites, online
materials and exercises for several courses, including first-year Chinese,
a course for heritage students, and oral communication courses. (Examples
may be seen HERE).
In addition, I have recently conducted fieldwork on societal change in
modern China and will use it to create online modules to enhance language
and culture acquisition for advanced-level students. I am also cooperating
with several other professors from different universities on Classical
Chinese textbooks. These textbooks will be used in a new Classical Chinese
course I will offer Fall semester 2002. Another interest of mine is Chinese
folk performance, which I believe to be deeply involved with daily life
in Chinese societies. I have been researching Taiwanese puppet theater
and Taiwanese Opera, investigating ways in which they reflect aspects
of local culture, language and society. Finally, I have been working on
the challenge of meeting the needs of students from a broad range of backgrounds.
To this end, I am working on materials tailored to the special needs of
heritage students..
Recent Work
- Forthcoming. "Hand Puppet Theater Performance: Emergent Structures
and the Resurgence of Taiwanese Identity". Religion and the Formation
of Taiwanese Identities. Edited by Murray Rubinstein and Paul Katz.
New York: St. Martins Publisher.
- 2001 "The Design and Application of Chinese Course Websites
and Online Exercises", Proceedings of the International Conference
on Internet Chinese Education (ICICE 2001). pp. 20-24. Taipei, Taiwan,
ROC. December, 2001.
- 2000 "The Locative Coverbs Yu, Yu and Hu in Classical Chinese",
Proceedings of the Eleven North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics.
In Dialectology, Socio-linguistics, and Language Change Section. Cambridge:
Harvard University Publisher. First Printed in November 2000.
- 2000 "A Semantic Study of the Classifiers Tiau, Tiunn, and
Liap in the Southern Min Dialect", Selected Papers from the Fifth
International Conference on Chinese Linguistics. In Semantics Section.
pp. 347-368. Edited by Fengfu Tsao, Samuel Wang and Chinfa Lien. Taipei:
The Crane Publishing Co. Ltd. First Printed in March 2000
- 1999 "The Nature of Yu And Its Relative Word Order in Classical
Chinese" Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Seventh Annual
Meeting of the International Association on Chinese Linguistics (IACL-7)
and the Tenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-10).
Volume 2. pp. 652-664. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University
of Southern California.
- 1998 "Designing a Chinese Newspaper Reading Course" Journal
of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 33.3:25-38.
- 1998 "The Role of Size and Shape in Three-dimensional Classifiers
in Mandarin Chinese" Proceedings of the Ninth North American
Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9). Volume 2. Los Angeles,
CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. pp. 310-323.
- 1998 "A Cognitive-Based Functional Account of Variations in
the Use of Classifiers in Chinese" Proceedings of the Ninth North
American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9). Volume 2. Los
Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California.
pp. 137-147 (co-authored with Wenze Hu, Harvard University).
- 1997 "The Coverbs in Classical Chinese" Ph.D Dissertation,
The Ohio State University. August 1997.
- 1994 "Instrumentality in Classical Chinese: A Study of the
Function Word Yi with Special Reference to the Confucian Analects"
MA Thesis, The Ohio State University. June 1994.
For
More Information
Sue-mei Wu
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall 160
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office: BH 245A
Phone: (412) 268-5949
Fax: (412) 268-1328
Web: http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/FacPages/suemei/
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