Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics and former Co-Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi from 2013 to 2021.
Research Interests
Language and culture, Chinese syntax, International education program design, Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese linguistics, Interface between linguistics and language teaching.
Biography
Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics and former Co-Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi from 2013 to 2021. Yang has directed and managed study abroad programs at Shanghai University in China and National Chung Cheng University and Tamkang University in Taiwan for more than 10 years.
Courses Taught
- CHIN 300 Envision Taiwan
- CHIN 360 Chinese culture through film and literature
- CHIN 402 Advanced Chinese II
- CHIN 450 Domain Knowledge
- CHIN 500 Exploring 20th Century Chinese Society through Non-Fiction
- CHIN 512 Twenty-First Century China: Social Issues in China
- CHIN 513 China and the World
- LIN 316 Syntax
- LIN 497 Undergraduate Thesis
Education
M.A. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2001)
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2005)