Dr. Ye Tian

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Director, Chinese Language ProgramLecturer in Foreign Languages

215-573-4240

703 Williams Hall

Ye Tian is the Director of the Chinese Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He oversees the daily operations of the program and curriculum articulation. Previously, he taught Chinese at various institutes, including Harvard University, Middlebury College, and Bucknell University. With a Ph.D. in Education, Society, and Culture from the University of California, Riverside, his research centers on Chinese language education, particularly with an interest in educational technology. He also focuses on investigating Chinese language education through sociocultural and historical frameworks and methodologies.

Education

PhD, Education, Society, and Culture, University of California, Riverside, 2017

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Present   Tian, Y., Feng, Y.S., Tong, X.K., Yang, Y.C. Automatic Error Detection on Handwritten Chinese Characters: A Teaching Experiment. Manuscript in progress.

Present   Tian, Y., Lee, C.J., Xiong, N.Z. Is the Test Reliable and Valid? Evaluating the Correlation Coefficient and Cut Scores of a College-level Chinese Language Placement Test. Manuscript in progress.

Present   Tian, Y., Dietrich, M.S., Wu, G. The Challenge and Significance of Using "Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education" in the U.S.: A Study on Chinese Characters and Vocabulary. Manuscript under review.

2023      Tian, Y., Dietrich, M.S., Wu, G. The Challenge and Significance of Using "Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education" in the U.S.: A Study on Chinese Characters and Vocabulary. Chinese as a Second Language, Special Issue (in progress).

2023      Chiang, M., Hu, J., Tian, Y. The History and the Future of Business Chinese Course at the University of Pennsylvania. Chinese Language Globalization Studies (in print).

2023      从机器翻译、语音合成、语音识别、文字识别到ChatGPT:浅谈AI对中文教学的挑战(From Machine Translation, Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, Character Recognition to ChatGPT: On the Challenges of AI to Chinese Language Teaching). Teaching Chinese in the World 37(3), 297-299.

2022      Chiang, M., Hu, J., Tian, Y.《宾夕法尼亚大学中文项目的历史、发展与创新》 (The History, Development, and Innovations of the Chinese Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania). Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching, Special Issue (1),15-23.  

2021      Constructing an Ideological Cultural Toolkit in Chinese Language Classrooms. China-US Journal of Humanities 6, 59-66.

2020      The Error Tolerance of Machine Translation: Findings from a Failed Teaching Design. Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching 11(1), 19-35.

2018      From Greek/Latin to Chinese: What We Can Learn from the First Chinese Teacher at Harvard. Curriculum History, 18(1), 54-70.

2018      《机器翻译对中文传统翻译作业的挑战》 (The Challenge of Machine Translation to Traditional Translation Homework in Chinese Language Learning). Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, 9(1), 78-95.

2017      “Sorry, but They Don’t Want Chinese Americans to Participate”: A Case Study of Tracking in an Ivy League Chinese Language Programme. International Journal of Multilingualism, 14(4), 437-462.

 

Chapters in Books

No Way Out: Lu Xun’s “A New Year's Sacrifice”. In Ding, F., Hu, J. (Eds.) Appreciating Classics of Modern Chinese Literature. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press (in print).

“Weeping for My Late Father on New Year’s Day” by Zhou Shuyuan, Co-translator & Co-commentator (with Jing Hu), in Mair, V., Zhang, Z. (Eds.) Eternal Nostalgia: Gems of Ancient Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament. London: Bloomsbury Publishing (in print).

2022锦带功曹为何褪色?:中国艺术史的画风与时风》(Why did the "Turkey" Fade in Color? : Painting Style and Cultural Ethos in Traditional Chinese Art History). In G. Liu & H. Wang (Eds.) 《传统与现代:海外中文文化教学》 (Tradition and Transition: Teaching Chinese Culture Overseas). Beijing: Peking University Press.

2022      Mu, B., Ma, C., Tian, Y. Reconfiguration of CFL Learners’ Ecologies of Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China and America. In Liu S. (Eds.), Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely: Global Cases and Perspectives (pp. 325-347). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87055-3_14

2021      The Artistic Discourse and Semiotic Significance of Food in Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman. In Ding, F., Hu, J. et al. (Eds.) Appreciating Contemporary Chinese Film Classics (pp. 142-148). Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing, LTD.