Welcome to my home page, with links to my online course syllabi and other pages pertaining to my teaching and research.

The North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) returned to Columbus, Ohio, for its 20th anniversary. NACCL-20 was held on 25-27 April 2008 at The Ohio State University, the birthplace of NACCL! A total of 113 papers were presented by scholars from around the world. The two-volume set of Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), containinig 74 papers, is now publicly accessible for viewing and downloading as full-text PDF files at the NACCL-20 website.

Online since 24 April 1996 (and the current url as of 12 May 2004), this website contains my annotated links to online resources on Chinese studies (culture, language, linguistics, etc.). It is also the host site for the NACCL-20 website.

Established in 1962, the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Inc. (CLTA) is a professional organization devoted to the study of Chinese language, culture, and pedagogy. Online since 20 January 1998 (with new url as of 07.07.07), the CLTA website was generously hosted and supported for a decade — from December 1997 to July 2007 — by our College of Humanities at The Ohio State University. The CLTA website migrated to a new web server in July 2007 and is now at: <clta-us.org>.

My Department at The Ohio State University launched its homepage on 1 July 1996 (with new url as of 28 May 2004). Information on graduate and undergraduate programs (including Graduate Admissions Information), courses, faculty, staff and graduate students, etc., is available online.

The Asian American Studies Program website (with new url as of Autumn 2005) is currently maintained by Ohio States' Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. The earlier <AsianAm.osu.edu> website was launched on 03.17.04 with Marjorie Chan and Judy Wu as the webmasters. Then hosted by the College of Humanities, the Asian American Studies Program Home Page started life as the university's "Virtual Center for Asian American Studies."

Teaching and Computer Technology:
Since the mid-1990's, computer technology and Chinese computing have been integral parts of students' coursework in the courses that I teach. Both linguistic and culture courses are taught in multimedia classrooms, which have audiovisual equipment and a computer with internet connection. Recently-taught courses that heavily integrate computer technology into course materials and assignments include my offering of Chinese 231: Traditional Chinese Culture, Chinese 580: The Chinese Language: Description and Analysis, Chinese 674: Chinese Opera (also see the Autumn 2007 students' bilingual web project, Zhong Guo Xi Ju (中国戏剧)), Chinese 680: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics, Chinese 782: Chinese Phonology, Chinese 782: Modern Chinese Dialects, and Chinese 784: Chinese Syntax, as well as the one-time offering of Chinese 694: Group Studies — Chinese Computing (Sp '00) and Chinese 889: Seminar on Databases and Corpora for Chinese Linguistic Research (Wi '01), Also see my Instructions for Concordancing East Asian E-Texts using Concordance, my 2002 JCLTA article, "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research" (PDF, 1.03 MB), as well as my 2004 JCLTA review, "Google Search Engine: UTF-8 and Searches in Chinese."

• My Courses and Archived Course Syllabi
• DEALL China Faculty's Courses for Current Quarter: Chinese and EALL
• ICS: East Asian Course Lists (part of "Student Resources")
• See also courses listed in Asian American Studies & Dept. of Linguistics.
• For other courses, see OSU's Master Schedule of Classes & Course Bulletin.
• For grad/undergrad students: Scholarships and Grant Opportunities.
• Grade Assignment: Course Marks
• Prohibited Conduct - Academic Misconduct:   See OSU's Code of Student Conduct   [Faculty Rule 3335-23]

Research Projects:
Linguistic research on humor (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Humor, Gender & Other Topics in Discourse Analysis (Wi '07), Chinese dialectology; prosody-discourse interaction (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Prosody and Discourse (Wi '04)); language and gender (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Language and Gender (Au '97)); pragmatics of intonation (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Intonation and Sentence-Final Particles (Au '99)); Pan-Mandarin ToBI System; interdisciplinary seed grant on Spoken Language Understanding and Generation (SLUG) (1999); corpus-based linguistic research (see Chinese 889 Seminar on Databases and Corpora for Chinese Linguistic Research (Wi '01)); Chinese language & computer technology (see, for example, my presentation, Chinese Computing and Concordancing, part of OSU College of Humanites' Spring 2003 poster session on Research Tools).

If you have difficulty accessing any portion of this web page or need the information in an alternative format, please contact the faculty member at <chan.9 @ osu.edu> (close the gap).