Combine teaching and research : My story

1. Combine teaching and research : My story Helen H. Shen Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures Helen-shen@uiowa.edu

2. About me … Research Orthographic knowledge development and cognitive processing of Chinese characters. Reading comprehension, reading assessment and testing, and reading diagnosis and remediation. Instructional theories on classroom learning and teaching psychology and methodology.

3. About me … Teaching • Teach both graduate and undergraduate courses • Serve as the Coordinator for the Chinese Language Program • Serve as an academic advisor

4. 迎春故早发，独自不疑寒。 It blooms in early spring and stands there solitary embracing cold weather 《 千磨万击还坚劲， 任尔东西南北风。 It is still strong and upward after thousand strikes of the wind from all directions.

5. Teaching and research go hand in hand and complement each other to construct a “double harvest” of our academic life. 双丰收 double harvest

6. Why do we combine teaching and research? • Cost effective on time spending • Improving the quality of both • Providing self-fulfillment 一箭双雕 One arrow kills two vultures

7. How do I combine teaching and research ? • 1. Offer graduate courses which allow • teaching benefits from my research experience and research informing my teaching

8. How do I combine teaching and research ? Teaching Chinese as a second language: Seminar in Research Design • It allow me to use my own research expertise in teaching • It also benefits my own research

9. my research paper submissions have been quite successful . • “This article is very well written in terms of design purpose, clarity and methodology. It has clearly made itself original in the field of teaching Chinese as a second language. Other than the contribution the article makes to classroom teaching, it can function as a model article for readers as well.” • “The research questions are excellent. The review of literature is well done and the findings have clear implications to the teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language” • “This paper provides original, statistically-sound empirical findings based on a well-designed study—as such, the paper bears the hallmarks of a publishable paper on a number of counts…”

10. The manuscript review process for these two books was smooth. Published by the National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii,2010 Published by the Beijing University Press, 2011

11. How do I combine teaching and research ? 2. Getting graduate students involved in my research An excellent way of mentoring graduate students and speeding up my own research process

12. 3. Use research results enriching my teaching Teaching Chinese as a second language: Classroom Instruction and Practicum. This courseallows me to use my research results and curriculum development experience in the class to help students understand from theory to practice about what are pedagogical sound curriculum and teaching methodologies for CFL instruction and how to design them.

13. I receive positive feedback on my teaching from the students • “Your teaching is superb.” • “There is nothing to improve. It is perfect. The readings are great.” • “Dr. Shen: Thank you! I do enjoy your class. Thanks again!”

14. How do I combine teaching and research ? 4. Find research topics from my teaching My undergraduate teaching supplied me with research questions and inspired me to write textbooks for undergraduate courses.

15. bilingual textbooks Published by the Beijing Language and Culture University Press,2006 Published by the Beijing University Press,2009

16. Let’s work hard and work wisely to mesh the double harvest in teaching and research!

17. Thank you! 谢谢！