Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor
Director of the Chinese Language Program
Office: Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 2239
Email: sharonyu@eastasian.ucsb.edu

Hsiao-jung Yu's research in Chinese linguistics focuses primarily on two areas: historical linguistics and applied linguistics. In historical linguistics she has conducted research on the study of grammar and lexicon. Professor Yu has also extended her research in applying linguistic analysis to solving authorship problems, identifying translators of Buddhist sutras, and dating Chinese literary works. Since 1999, while she has continued her work in these two areas, Professor Yu has concentrated primarily on exploring external influences on the changes of the Chinese language, such as the influence of translated Chinese Buddhist sutras. In applied linguistics, her primary interests are on three topics: language teaching theory and methodology, context and culture in language learning, and the use of computers in teaching foreign languages.

Professor Yu feels that she has learned tremendously while working on these above mentioned areas and topics and wholeheartedly welcomes everyone who shares similar interests to come and join her to explore these areas.

Selected Publications

• "Hanyu yufashi zhong de yuyan jiechu" (Languge Contact and Grammatical Changes in History Chinese Syntax) in Hanyushi jikan (2003)
• Rulin waishi cihui yanjiu (A study of the lexicon of Rulin waishi), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2001.
  "The Influence of Translated Later Han Buddhist Sutras on the Development of the Chinese Disposal Construction." (with Guangshun Cao), Cahiers de Linquistique Asie Orientale (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, Paris) 29:2 (2000): 151-177.
• CD-Rom (with George Michaels) CyberChinese I, Richmond: Laser Publishing Group, 2000.
  
  "Xianyu jing zhong de daici 'ta'" (The "ta" employed in the Buddhist sutra Xianyu jing), Kai Pian (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) 20 (2000): 54-57.
  
  "CyberChinese: A Multimedia Aid for Elementary Chinese Language Instruction: Overview and Evaluation." (with George Michaels), Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association 33(3), (1998): 39-50.
• "The Interrogatives Employed in Honglou meng." Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (1996): 730-35.
• "Consistent Inconsistencies in the Interrogatives in Rulin waishi." Journal of Chinese Linguistics (University of California, Berkeley) 24 (1995): 249-80.

Teaching

• The Buddhist Influence on Chinese Language and Culture (Chinese 104)
• Advanced Readings in Vernacular Literature (Chinese 136)
• The Language of Vernacular Chinese Literature (Chinese 150)
• Chinese language pedagogy (Chinese 251)
• Computer-Assisted language learning - creator of Cyber Chinese Program