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Dr.
Kylie Hsu is currently Professor of Chinese and Linguistics at California State
University, Los Angeles, and a Distinguished Woman of the University. She
set a record in her department as the only faculty to receive early tenure
and promotion to Associate Professor as well as early promotion to Full
Professor. She is the Coordinator of the Chinese Program and a former Associate
Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Educational Background: Dr. Hsu earned
her B.A. in Linguistics (Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, her M.A. in Linguistics (Distinction)
from California State University, Northridge, and her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics
(UC System Presidential Fellow and the State of California Fellow) from the University of California, Los Angeles,
which she completed in record time. Her biography is listed in Contemporary
Authors and numerous international Who's Who publications.
Teaching Interests: Dr.
Hsu's teaching interests include the contemporary use and the historical
development of language and the sociocultural aspect of language learning.
She teaches Chinese language, linguistics, translation, civilization, culture,
and language for special purposes such as business and newspaper Chinese.
She also teaches sociolinguistics such as language diversity in urban America,
and contrastive analysis of Chinese and English structures.
In addition, she has developed online learning materials through the support
of internal and external grants.
Professional Activities: Dr. Hsu's research areas include word structure and discourse analysis, language and cultural socialization, heritage language pedagogy, intercultural communication, and instructional technology. Her professional activities include organizing, chairing, and presenting papers at national and international conferences, holding offices in professional societies, serving on editorial boards, and authoring numerous publications, including A Discourse Analysis of Temporal Markers in Written and Spoken Mandarin Chinese, Selected Issues in Mandarin Chinese Word Structure Analysis, and Pragmatic Functions of “Shuō” in Chinese Political Debates, published by the Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 1998, 2002, and to appear in 2008, respectively; and three volumes of Practical Chinese Exercises: Volumes 1-3, published by Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, 2008.
