{"id":33,"date":"2022-08-09T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:42:17","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/files\/2022\/08\/2017_Mon_Keang_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/files\/2022\/08\/2017_Mon_Keang_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/files\/2022\/08\/2017_Mon_Keang_1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/files\/2022\/08\/2017_Mon_Keang_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/files\/2022\/08\/2017_Mon_Keang_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/files\/2022\/08\/2017_Mon_Keang_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Youth Collaborative for Chinatown<\/em><\/p>\n<h6>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.<\/h6>\n<h1>Courses that I&#8217;ve taught at UBC:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>CNTO 301 Basic Cantonese I<\/li>\n<li>CNTO 303 Basic Cantonese II<\/li>\n<li>CNTO 311 Basic Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers<\/li>\n<li>CNTO 401 Intermediate Cantonese I<\/li>\n<li>CNTO 403 Intermediate Cantonese II<\/li>\n<li>LING 100 Introduction to Language and Linguistics\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about these courses <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.ubc.ca\/undergraduate\/asian-language-options\/cantonese\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nRead the story of our teaching assistants <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.ubc.ca\/news\/conversation-with-two-teaching-assistants-of-the-ubc-cantonese-language-program\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nWatch our students&#8217; video projects <a href=\"https:\/\/hksi.ubc.ca\/student-projects\/cnto-courses\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>I have also taught Cantonese in Vancouver Chinatown:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday School at Mon Keang School with the Youth Collaborative for Chinatown (2016-2021) [<a href=\"https:\/\/ycc-yvr.com\/saturday-school\">website<\/a>]\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to the support of community members, the program was awarded the BC Heritage Award 2020 in the category Education, Awareness and Communication [<a href=\"https:\/\/heritagebc.ca\/events-activities\/2020-heritage-award-recipients\/\">award details<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Saturday School at Centre A (2014) [<a href=\"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Saturday-School.pdf\">event info<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/centrea\/albums\/72157658801578194\/with\/22555036368\/\">photo album<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>I was invited to give guest lectures for the following courses at UBC:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>ACAM 390A Global Seminar (field study in Kaiping and Hong Kong)<\/li>\n<li>ANTH 217 Culture and Communication<\/li>\n<li>ASIX 315 Hong Kong Diaspora in Canada<\/li>\n<li>HIST 482 The Heritage of Chinese Migration<\/li>\n<li>HIST 483 Asian Migrations to the Americas<\/li>\n<li>LING 101 Languages of the World<\/li>\n<li>LING 447J Topic in Linguistics (Who is a native speaker?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Course that I&#8217;ve taught at the University of Hong Kong:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>LIN 7004 Phonetics and Phonology (for the Master of Arts in Linguistics program)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Courses that I&#8217;ve taught at Hong Kong Community College (an affiliate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University):<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>English for Business Communication<\/li>\n<li>English for Academic Studies<\/li>\n<li>Language, Cultures, and Communication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to students&#8217; votes, I received the HKCC Lively Teaching Award in the second year of my teaching career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve taught at UBC: CNTO 301 Basic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/teaching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56896,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zoelam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}