Dr Daphne Hsieh

BA (National Taiwan University); MA (UC Berkeley); PhD (UQ)

Lecturer in Chinese

Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (#32), 426
Phone: +61 (7) 3365 6278 
Email: d.hsieh@uq.edu.au
Teaching:
  • CHIN1100 and CHIN2100 Spoken Chinese 1A and 1B;
  • CHIN1200 and CHIN2200 Written Chinese 1A and 1B;
  • CHIN3120 and CHIN3130 Advanced Conversational Chinese I and II;
  • CHIN3800 Contemporary Chinese Popular Fiction and Film.
Research interests:
  • Teaching and learning Chinese as a second language
  • Acquisition of Mandarin tones by English speakers
  • Popular Chinese fiction.
Current research projects:
  • Contemporary Chinese knight-errant novels and film/TV adaptations.
Selected recent publications:
  • D.H.Y. Hsieh: Investigation of the Initial Stage of Mandarin Tones Acquisition by Australian University Students. 6th International Conference on the Teaching of Mandarin Chinese, Volume 4, pp. 92-100, 2000.
  • D.H.Y. Hsieh and Y.T. Yeow: Study of the Cycle-by-cycle F0 characteristics of Mandarin Tones Using Electroglottograph. Abstracts of the 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, p. 42. 2000.
Other activities and service:
  • Organisation of School's annual "A Taste of University Chinese" program - an activity for high school students of Queensland;
  • Teaching of Chinese literature in Brisbane weekend Chinese language school.

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