Chin-Hsi Lin

Ph.D. Student
Department of Education

Email: chinhsil@uci.edu

Biography

Chin-Hsi Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Language, Literacy, and Technology specialization in the Department of Education. Chin-Hsi's primary research interest is emerging technologies in language education, especially new forms of social media. Drawn from sociocultural perspective, he primarily investigates how social media help learners develop and acquire the capacity to language use. Under the direction of Dr. Mark Warschauer, his dissertation investigates the process and outcome of social learning and authentic communications on a social network site developed for language learning.

Chin-Hsi’s secondary research interest is in the reading development of Chinese language learners. He examined how first language and orthographic co-occurrence in second language affects the reading development of Chinese learners in collaboration with Dr. Penelope Collins.

Chin-Hsi holds a Master’s degree in Education from UC Irvine, a Master’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from National Taiwan Normal University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from National Taiwan Normal University. Prior to UC Irvine, Chin-Hsi taught all levels of Chinese language to American undergraduate and graduate students in the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University.

Publications

Books

Lin, C.-H., & Lien, Y.-J. (2010). Technology and Chinese language teaching: Theory and practice. Taipei, Taiwan: Sharing.

Lin, C.-H., & Shu, J. (2008). A gentle introduction to Chinese linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan: Sharing.

Hsin, S. C., Shu, J., Chen, H., Lin, C.-H., & Lin, C.-T. (2007). Modern Chinese correspondence. Taipei, Taiwan: Wunan.

Journal Articles

Lien, Y. J., Lin, C.-H., & Chiu, G.-F. (2011). Animated teaching: Using cartoons in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, 2(1), 36-48.

Lin, C.-H., & Warschauer, M. (in press). Integrative versus instrumental orientation among online language learners. Linguagens e Diálogos.

Lin, C.-H. (in press). Tools for teaching Chinese through song. Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching.

Lin, C.-H., & Collins, P. (in press). The effects of L1, orthographic regularity and consistency in naming Chinese characters. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. doi: 10.1007/s11145-011-9340-9.

Conference Proceedings

Lin, C.-H., & Lien, Y.-J. (2010). Cartoon for language teaching. In D. B. Xu, J. Da & P. Zhang (Ed.),  (pp. 154-158). Columbus, OH: National East Asian Languages Resource Center, The Ohio State University.

Lin, C.-H., Shu, J., Chou, C., Chen, H., & Lien, Y.-J. (2007). Using Moodle in Chinese language teaching. In National Taiwan Normal University (Ed.), (pp. 133-144). Taipei, Taiwan: Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission.

Shu, J., & Lin, C.-H. (2007). Multimedia and Chinese character teaching strategies. In National Taiwan Normal University (Ed.), (pp. 221-232). Taipei, Taiwan: Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission.

Shu, J., Lin, C.-H., Lien, Y.-J., & Lee, L.-C. (2007). Using online speech technology in teaching Chinese conversations. In Feng Chia University (Ed.), (pp. 497-504). Taichung, Taiwan: Feng Chia University.