Teaching Experience

Chinese 325: Structure of the Chinese Language; Chinese 326: Survey of Chinese Linguistics Chinese 495: Senior Seminar on Chinese Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Research

My research interests are in sociolinguistics, Chinese dialects (including Yue and Hakka), and language acquisition. He is currently researching the language of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia and non-standard varieties of Chinese. He is also doing work on the assessment of advanced Chinese learners. Professor Bourgerie is a past president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and is the founding director of the Chinese Flagship Center at BYU (2002). He is currently the editor of the The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Chinese as a Second Language.

Selected Publications

“Dialects of the Southeast Asian Chinese Diaspora: A Cambodian Case Study” (2019) In The Landscapes of World Dialectology: Festschrift in Commemoration of the Retirement of Yŏsu, Prof. Yi Sanggyu, (pp. 447-512). K. Wiwonhoe, Ed. Seoul: T’aehaksa.

“Education in the Cambodia Chinese Diaspora” (2017) In Kagan, O., Carreira, M. and Chik, C. H. (eds.). (forthcoming 2017). The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education. New York: Routledge

With Lin QI and Yu LIU. (May 2016). Mastering Chinese Through Global Debate. Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press.

With Matthew Christensen (2015) “Chinese for Special Purposes: Individualized Instruction as a Bridge to Overseas Direct Enrollment.” In Developing Professional Levels of Language Proficiency: Theories and Methods, eds. Anthony Brown and Jennifer Bown, 87-103. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

With Carl Falsgraf. “The Language Flagship: Multiple Approaches to Creating Global Professionals.” In U.S.-China Educational Exchange: Perspectives on a Growing Partnership, ed. Shepherd Laughlin, 83-97. New York: Institute of International Education, 2008.

(1998) “Expanding the Scope of the Utterance-Final Position: Postposed Modals in Mandarin and Cantonese.” Studies in Cantonese Linguistics. Stephen Matthew, ed. Linguistics Society Hong Kong Series.

(1996) “Acquisition of Modal Particles in Chinese Second Language Learners” Chinese Language Teachers Association Monograph #2. Scott McGinnis, (ed.). Columbus. Ohio: Foreign Language Publications.

Service

DEPARTMENT CHAIR. (June 2015-present). Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

DIRECTOR. (January 2016-present). Cambodia Oral History Project. Humanities Center, BYU College of Humanities.

DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CHINESE FLAGSHIP CENTER at Brigham Young University. Center for Language Studies and College of Humanities. (September 2002- August 2013).

Citizenship assignments

DEPARTMENT CHAIR. (June 2015-present). Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
DIRECTOR. (January 2016-present). Cambodia Oral History Project. Humanities Center, BYU College of Humanities.

DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CHINESE FLAGSHIP CENTER at Brigham Young University. Center for Language Studies and College of Humanities. (September 2002- August 2013).

Professional Website

http;//bourgerie.byu.edu