McCone Building 107
Email Address
jinhuei.dai@miis.edu
Phone Number
831.647.6570
Language(s)
中文
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Jinhuei Enya Dai
Associate Professor
I joined the Institute after teaching at Middlebury College Chinese Summer Program and conducting research at the University of California, Berkeley. I am a believer of Docendo Discimus and 教學相長 (jiāoxué xiāng zhăng: to teach is to learn; teaching and learning promote and enhance each other), so during my teaching career I’ve never stopped re-investing myself as a life-long learner and as an innovator. Since 2001, I have attended academic and professional development programs, including the Teaching Chinese Program at Ohio State University, the German-U.S. exchange program at the University of Heidelberg, the LSA Special Linguistics Program at the University of Düsselforf, the Chinese Pragmatics Workshop at the University of Hawai’i, and the Chinese Pedagogy Master’s program at Middlebury College.
“Dare to imagine” and “it’s okay to fail” are what I’ve learned and value most in my work. Ever since I joined the Institute, I started to explore the unknown digital world and content-based instruction. Mini-Monterey Model (since 2007), The MIISing Link (2007), Indvidualization model (2008), and The Virtual Language Center (VLC-I, 2009) were developed based on spirits of “reaching beyond.” Currently I am re-designing and documenting the VLC-II model which integrates Individualization and interactive blogging. By collaborating with a wonderful tech team in Taiwan, we aim for an even more dynamic interactive blogging platform for language teaching and learning.
Reaching beyond the physical boundary, reaching beyond the cross-discipline, reaching beyond the intercultural labyrinth – and we realize that the art of teaching and learning is about cultivating a greater awareness of understanding toward ourselves. Then, a true facilitator is born, a teacher who creates opportunities for learning to happen. And this is what I believe, Docendo Discimus and 教學相長.
Expertise
Cognitive linguistics, Chinese cognitive linguistics, Chinese as a heritage language, Chinese and Taiwanese popular culture, linguistic anthropology, and interactive blogging
Education
Ph.D., Cognitive Linguistics, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge; MA, Linguistics, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge; MA Program, Chinese Pedagogy at Middlebury College; BA, English Literature, Fu Jen Catholic University
Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
▲ indicates offered in the current term
▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
CHLA 8324 - Modern Chinese I
CHLA 8350 - Beijing Immersive Module
CHLA 8368 - ChineseHstoryThruCinema/X Talk
CHLA 8380 - Politics & Media I
Politics and Media I is a seven-week intensive course that focuses on the updated economic and political situation of Chinese-speaking countries. It also looks into the media coverage of presidential election, the impact of Arab Spring, financial and economic situation across the straits.
Spring 2012 - MIIS
CHLA 8381 - Politics & Media II
A continuation of Politics and Media I that focuses on the updated economic and political situation of Chinese-speaking ... read more countries. It also looks into the media coverage of presidential election, the impact of Arab Spring, financial and economic situation across the straits.
Spring 2012 - MIIS
CHLA 8382 - Intro to Strategies in Chinese
Recommend those students who take lower 300 level to take this introduction course in the same semester to gain more insights in idiomatic expression of Chinese strategies and more hours in practice and enhance language skills and cultural competence.
Fall 2011 - MIIS
CHLA 8388 - Cross-Strait Immersive Module
CHLA 8422 - Buildng anEastAsia Community I
CHLA 8450 - Beijing Immersive Module
CHLA 8460 - ArtOfSunzi:ApplPol&BusStudies ▲
CHLA 8472 - Internet, Media & Conflict
Able to conduct research in Chinese, discuss and debate. Completion of CS368 or higher.
Fall 2011 - MIIS
CHLA 8486 - Chinese for Interns
CHLA 8488 - Cross-Strait Immersive Module
CHLA 8490 - Chinese Grammar Pedagogy ▲
CHLA 8493 - Politcs&Scurity-MultipolarWrld
This course will be a part of a larger Monterey Model curriculum arrangement, which will consist of three groups of students specializing in Arabic, Chinese and Russian languages and Area studies. The Monterey Model curriculum will be devised in a way that would allow students from different language groups and areas of expertise to come together several times during the semester in order to exchange their views and acquired knowledge pertinent to selected themes. Students, professors and invited distinguished experts will be discussing differences in public, media and governmental views related to important international events and role of languages in regional politics. An effort will be made to integrate various approaches to better understand domestic politics and foreign relations through cultural, historical and political discourse. Students will watch jointly news broadcasts in Arabic, Chinese and Russian in order to better grasp the role of mass media in China, Russia and Middle East. Students will acquire practical skills of working with interpreters and will prepare their own presentations for some plenary sessions where they will have to rely on assistance of interpreters to generate the discussion of their topics. The joint coordinated curriculum will consist of the following topics:
1. Overview. Ethnic groups and minorities. Concepts of territory, geography, security.
2. Islam in country specific case studies. Political movements rooted in Islam. Religion and State in country specific case studies.
3. Security. Terrorism. Border Issues.
4. Language specific themes, for example: Arab Spring: media coverage, History and Present of Russian-Chinese diplomatic collaboration, Mutual perceptions : case studies of Chinese business and China’s economic presence in Northern Africa, Role of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Chinese, Russian, Arabic media strategies covering several key political events, Differences and similarities in patterns of civil unrest and political/economic consequences in China, Russia and Arabic speaking countries.
Spring 2012 - MIIS
CHLA 8498 - Methodology&MaterialDevChinese
CHLA 8510 - CognitionInChineseLang&Culture
In addition to three hour class meeting, synchronous and asynchronous online learning are required for this class.
Fall 2011 - MIIS, Spring 2013 - MIIS
