Photo credit: Youth Collaborative for Chinatown

Teaching is an integral part of my identity. As an educator, I see learning as a collaborative social process that involves everyone in the room. No matter what I teach, I cherish the experience of growing together with my students.

Courses that I’ve taught at UBC:

• • CNTO 301 Basic Cantonese I
  • CNTO 303 Basic Cantonese II
  • CNTO 311 Basic Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers
  • CNTO 401 Intermediate Cantonese I
  • CNTO 403 Intermediate Cantonese II
  • LING 100 Introduction to Language and Linguistics
    • I have been both an instructor and a teaching assistant for this course! I was named the Teaching Assistant of the Year by the Department of Linguistics in 2017.

Learn more about these courses here.
Read the story of our teaching assistants here.
Watch our students’ video projects here.

I have also taught Cantonese in Vancouver Chinatown:

• • Saturday School at Mon Keang School with the Youth Collaborative for Chinatown (2016-2021) [website]
    • • Thanks to the support of community members, the program was awarded the BC Heritage Award 2020 in the category Education, Awareness and Communication [award details]
  • Saturday School at Centre A (2014) [event info | photo album]

I was invited to give guest lectures for the following courses at UBC:

• • ACAM 390A Global Seminar (field study in Kaiping and Hong Kong)
  • ANTH 217 Culture and Communication
  • ASIX 315 Hong Kong Diaspora in Canada
  • HIST 482 The Heritage of Chinese Migration
  • HIST 483 Asian Migrations to the Americas
  • LING 101 Languages of the World
  • LING 447J Topic in Linguistics (Who is a native speaker?)

Course that I’ve taught at the University of Hong Kong:

• • LIN 7004 Phonetics and Phonology (for the Master of Arts in Linguistics program)

Courses that I’ve taught at Hong Kong Community College (an affiliate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University):

• • English for Business Communication
  • English for Academic Studies
  • Language, Cultures, and Communication

Thanks to students’ votes, I received the HKCC Lively Teaching Award in the second year of my teaching career.