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Dr.
Kylie Hsu is Professor of Chinese and Linguistics in the
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State
University, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the University's Outstanding
Professor and Distinguished Woman awards, and she
set a record in receiving early tenure
and promotion to Associate Professor as well as early promotion to Full
Professor. She is the Chinese Program Coordinator and a former Associate Chair
of the Department. In her leadership role, she has developed the Chinese teaching
credential curriculum, and has also successfully submitted a proposal to the
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish a Chinese subject
matter preparation program for prospective teachers, which is the first of its
kind in California.
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 achieved in record time. Her biography is listed in Contemporary
Authors and numerous international Who's Who publications.
Teaching & Research: Dr.
Hsu's teaching and research, in a broad sense, include the contemporary use and the historical
development of language, second language acquisition, and pedagogical grammar.
She has taught both Chinese and English language, ESL/TESOL, TCSL/TCFL, linguistics,
applied linguistics, translation, intercultural communication, language for special purposes,
and contrastive analysis of Chinese and English structures. Dr. Hsu has
received various grants for research, teaching, and material development that
includes online learning, such as the Chinese
New Year Lantern Festival project supported by the Center for
Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.
Professional Activities: Dr. Hsu's 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 related to Chinese and English linguistics, functional grammar, corpus-based discourse analysis, and language teaching/learning. Her recent publications include: A Discourse Analysis of Temporal Markers in Written and Spoken Mandarin Chinese (1998), Selected Issues in Mandarin Chinese Word Structure Analysis (2002), and Pragmatic Functions of “Shuō” in Chinese Political Debates (forthcoming), The Edwin Mellen Press, NY and UK; and Practical Chinese Exercises: Volumes 1-3 (2008), Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles.
