Contact Information

Office: 3065 JFSB

Phone: 422-2247

Email: shupei_wang@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses
Chinese 302 Advanced Mandarin (Chinese News and Broadcasts)
Chinese 321 Selected Readings of Modern Chinese
Chinese 322 Advanced Chinese Writing
FLANG 490 R Translation

Semester Schedule: For Winter Semester 2013

Chinese 302 Daily 9:00 am-9:50 am 2011 JKB; 1-1:50 pm 2011 JKB
Chinese 322 MWF 12-12:50 pm 1103 JKB

Office Hours: M, W 10:00 am-11:00 am, and by appointment

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University in August 2007 with research emphasis: Second Language Acquisition (Chinese emphasis). Her dissertation topic: An analysis of grammar (syntactic) errors and attrition by adult native English speaking learners of Mandarin as L2. She received an M.A. in Language Acquisition (Chinese Emphasis) from Brigham Young University and a B.A. in Chinese literature and Linguistics, National Tsing Hua (清华) University, Taiwan.

Interests:

Professor Wang's professional interests include second language acquisition, attrition, and pedagogy, and Chinese media course and curriculum design. Her interest in integrating multimedia technology into classroom teaching has grown out of her recent experience in designing a project. Because becoming more adept in Mandarin TV news broadcasts is an essential requirement for advanced students. She has also collected and designed a set of materials for teaching Chinese through television news especially for them.