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- SFU Multilingual Week Turns 5!
- Creating Culturally Competent, Gender-Sensitive Health Education for Punjabi Women
- Ann Hui in Conversation
- 2025 Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition
- Visual Storytelling Guest-lecture, a collaboration between Portuguese Language and Faculty of Environment
- Celebrating a Successful SFU Multilingual Week 2025
- 2024 Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature
- Japanese Studies Certificate Launch Ceremony and Job Exhibition
- Celebrating Diwali in the Classroom
- Intersections of Punjabi Language and Health Research
- Fall 2024 Author Visit and Lyre Launch
- 24th edition of the Italian Language Week in the World
- World Literatures Class Guest Lecture
- Finding Yourself Reflected in World Literature, From Ukraine to Canada
- In Celebration of the 10th Annual World Literature Student Conference
- SFU Students Shine at 2026 Chinese Bridge Competition
- Convocation Spotlight: WL Honours Graduand Callie Shares Notes on Perseverance
- New Publication Spotlight: Dr. Melek Ortabasi on Multilingualism and Heritage Languages
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Areas of interest
Intensive Mandarin Chinese courses and Heritage Mandarin Chinese courses
Education
- BA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, East China Normal University
- MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Jyväskylä
- PhD in Curriculum Theory and Implementation, Simon Fraser University
Biography
Cynthia teaches both intensive and heritage Mandarin Chinese courses, ranging from beginner to advanced levels. Her research interests focus on Chinese linguistics, language pedagogy, and learning dispositions rooted in the Confucian learning tradition.
Cynthia oversees Chinese language training for the SFU-ZJU Dual Degree Program in Computing Science. Beyond teaching, she is involved in curriculum design, course development, assessment, and coordination with the partner university.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
Office hours
- By appointment via Zoom