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Hsin-hung (Sean) Yeh

Associate Teaching Professor

Hsin-hung (Sean) Yeh is excited to join the faculty of Santa Clara University as a Chinese language lecturer, starting from the Academic Year 2020-2021. Born and raised in Taiwan, Yeh moved to the U.S. in 2010. He started teaching Chinese as a full-time instructor at Harvard University for 5 years (2010-2015) and has been teaching in Middlebury Chinese Summer School every summer since 2014. In 2015, he moved to the Bay Area and started his Ph.D. studies at Stanford University, with research interests including Chinese/Sinophone linguistics (lexical semantics, morphology, and information structure), sociolinguistics (style and language ideology/attitude), L2 Chinese pedagogy, and language proficiency assessment. He is also a certified Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester and Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) rater of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). He is looking forward to working with every student and colleague at Santa Clara University! He also started teaching a Taiwanese language course for UC Berkeley since Fall 2024.

Research Interests:
  • Chinese/Sinophone linguistics (lexical semantics, morphology, and information structure)
  • Sociolinguistics (style and language ideology/attitude)
  • L2 Chinese pedagogy
  • Language proficiency assessment
  • Integration of EduTech and AI tools into L2 pedagogy
  • DEIA in L2 pedagogy

 

Courses
  • CHIN 1 - 3: Elementary Chinese I - III
  • CHIN 21-22 Chinese Lang & Cultures I-II
  • CHIN 100-101: Advanced Chinese I-II
  • CHIN 106: Understanding Sinophone World through TV Shows and Dramas
  • CHIN 107: Exploring Sinophone World through News, Social Media, and Video Games
  • CHIN 125 Love/Affection in Sino Films
  • CHIN 126 Sino. Pop Cul. in Glob. Cx.
  • CHIN 128: Social Justice in Taiwan
  • Other Upper Division Chinese courses

 

Publications

Selected Publications - Articles:

  • Yeh, H.-H. and Cao, X. (2023) "The Concept and New Development of Middlebury Model Advanced Chinese Teaching in the Post-epidemic Era" (in Mandarin Chinese). International Chinese Language Education, 8(2), 12-19.
  • Yeh, H.-H. (2022). A continuum study of Chinese V N verbal compounds and its pedagogical implications. CLTA Monograph VI (Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in L2 Chinese).

Selected Publications - Textbooks:

  • Chiu, H.-F., Wu, Y., Yang, Y., & Yeh, H.-H. (forthcoming). Progressive Chinese: Intermediate Course. Taipei (Volume 2), Taiwan: Cheng Chung Bookstore.

  • Chiu, H.-F., Wu, Y., Yang, Y., & Yeh, H.-H. (2023). Progressive Chinese: Intermediate Course (Traditional Chinese) (Volume 1). Taipei, Taiwan: Cheng Chung Bookstore.

  • Chiu, H.-F., Wu, Y., Yang, Y., & Yeh, H.-H. (2023). Progressive Chinese: Intermediate Course Teachers' Manual. Taipei (Volume 1), Taiwan: Cheng Chung Bookstore.
  • Chiu, H.-F., Wu, Y., Yang, Y., & Yeh, H.-H. (2022). Progressive Chinese: Intermediate Course. Taipei, Taiwan: Cheng Chung Bookstore.