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Biography
Heidi Hui Shi (Shí Huì 石慧) obtained her Ph.D. specializing in Chinese linguistics from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon, USA.
She also holds a B.A. in international economics and trade from Southeast University (Nanjing, China), an M.A. in international studies and East Asian Studies from Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea), and another M.A. in linguistics from University of Oregon (Eugene, USA).
Since March 2022, she has been serving the UTU School of Language and Translation Studies as a University Lecturer (yliopistonlehtori) of Chinese.
Before joining UTU, she was employed by University of Oregon, USA, where she taught language courses across proficiency levels (Chinese and Korean) and lectured linguistics content courses about East Asian linguistics and their pedagogies.
She has over 10 years of experience teaching Mandarin Chinese as a second or foreign language in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contexts, including China, South Korea, the US, and Finland.
Teaching
Dr. Shi teaches the following courses at UTU:
1. Chinese language courses: basic Chinese II; intermediate Chinese I & II; advanced Chinese I & II; classical Chinese (wenyanwen)
2. Linguistics content courses: Chinese grammar; language variation; interaction and communication in Chinese; language politics and reforms; academic writing in Chinese; business communication in Chinese
3. Research & thesis seminars: BA proseminar, MA proseminar, MA research methodology
4. Strategic funding courses: project management in China and East Asia; Chinese workplace cultures
Research
As a linguist, she looks forward to contributing to the study of Chinese language and culture in the US, EU, and beyond. By doing so, her research focuses on facilitating Chinese language and culture instruction by accelerating the exchange of quality scholarship, expertise, and teaching materials.
In particular, her study aims to bridge the gap between theoretical research and in-field Chinese teaching and learning. From a usage-based approach, she explores the interaction between Chinese language phenomena and cognition to provide an empirical basis for teaching and learning the language. She is also dedicated to the study of online neologisms and social labels in the digital age, which is an angle to explore the interaction between language and human social well-being.
In summary, Dr. Shi’s research interests lie in Chinese as a second language pedagogy, Chinese construction grammar, metaphor and cognitive linguistics, gender and language, gender socialization, and digital media-based language. She adopts corpus-based and quantitative approaches to language research.
Her language areas include Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and English.