Weiqun (Victoria) Wang
Mandarin Language Teacher, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
Weiqun Wang teaches Mandarin at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. She is the the module convenor of the Inter-faculty Mandarin courses for Stages 1, 3, and 4 as well as Introduction to Mandarin in the MSc International Business course.
She is interested in E-learning and CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) and in introducing Corpus to Mandarin learning, teaching and research. She is also interested in Chinese literature and Translation studies.
Prior to joining The University of Nottingham, she worked in various positions at the University of Birmingham from 2002 to 2007, including teaching Mandarin at its Centre for Modern Languages. She was a lecturer at the China Agricultural University from 1996 to 2001.
Past Research
Publications
Wang, W. 2011. A corpus-driven study on translation units in an English-Chinese parallel corpus. MPhil Thesis is digitalised and permanently collected by Birmingham University Library: available at http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/561/
Wang, W. 2011. Introduction on Open Educational Resources in Mandarin Chinese Teaching. Presented at the 9th BCLTS (British Chinese Language Teachers Society) Symposium, held at the University of Edinburgh, UK. 29th June - 1st July, 2011.
Wang, W. 2010. The Internet Resources for Chinese character flash and its Classroom Practical Effect. Presented at the 10th International Forum for Mandarin Teaching. Held at Shenyang, China. 18-20 August, 2010.
Wang, W. 2010. ShiLun Guoji Hanyu Jiaoyu Jiaocai Zhong de Yuyan he Wenhua Duoyangxing Wenti (On the Diversity of Chinese Language and Culture in the International Mandarin Teaching).Presented at the 8th BCLTS (British Chinese Language Teachers Society) Symposium, held at the University of Cardiff, UK. 28th-30th June, 2010.
Wang, W. 2009. Use Multimedia to Help Chinese Character Teaching. Presented at the 7th BCLTS (British Chinese Language Teachers Society) Symposium, held at the University of Sheffield, UK. 29-30 June, 2009.
Wang, W.(translated). 2007. So Far, So Good- the First 94 Years (by Roy Neuberger). Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press. Some details available at: http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20097868
J. Yun, W. Wang and J. He. 2007. A Co-evolutionary Algorithm to Cluster Translation Equivalents in English-Chinese Parallel Corpus. In proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2008), Wuhan, China.
Wang, W. 2006. Simultaneous Sentence-level Alignment Between One Source Text And Two Translation Texts. Presented at the British/Irish Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference 2006 (BAAL/IRAAL 2006), held in University College Cork, Ireland, Sept 7-9, 2006
Wang, W. 2005. Corpus-Driven Study of Translation Units in an English-Chinese Parallel Corpus. Presented in IV International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-4), held in the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 20-23, 2005
Wang, W.1998. Teacher's Role in Class to Enhance Students' Interests in Learning English, China Agricultural University Journal (Social Science Edition)}, no.2, 1998 (in Chinese)