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John Jing-hua Yin

Program Director and Professor of Chinese

jyin@uvm.edu
(802) 656-0371
jyin@uvm.edu
+18026560371
Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1995

BIO

Professor Yin specializes in Chinese linguistics and Chinese language pedagogy.  He got his Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  He has been teaching Chinese language, literature, and culture at ̽̽ since Fall 1997.  Before then, he had taught at the Chinese Summer School at Middlebury College, the University of Oregon, and the College of William and Mary. He developed the “Proceed Separately and Strike Together” approach to enable Chinese language beginners to learn the Chinese writing system and the Chinese phonetics separately in accordance with the intrinsic regularity and unique features of the Chinese language. He served as Executive Director for the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA) in 2014-2019, and he is a recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award granted by CLTA in 2024.  He directs the program in Asian languages and literatures and the Chinese Language Program.   

Courses

  • CHIN 1010/1070           Elements of Chinese Culture
  • CHIN 2100/2200           2nd Year College Chinese I & II
  • WLIT 2310                    Classical Chinese Literature in Translation 
  • Chinese Characters
  • Classical Chinese
  • Chinese Grammar

Publications

Publications (PDF)

Bio

Professor Yin specializes in Chinese linguistics and Chinese language pedagogy.  He got his Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  He has been teaching Chinese language, literature, and culture at ̽̽ since Fall 1997.  Before then, he had taught at the Chinese Summer School at Middlebury College, the University of Oregon, and the College of William and Mary. He developed the “Proceed Separately and Strike Together” approach to enable Chinese language beginners to learn the Chinese writing system and the Chinese phonetics separately in accordance with the intrinsic regularity and unique features of the Chinese language. He served as Executive Director for the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA) in 2014-2019, and he is a recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award granted by CLTA in 2024.  He directs the program in Asian languages and literatures and the Chinese Language Program.   

Courses

  • CHIN 1010/1070           Elements of Chinese Culture
  • CHIN 2100/2200           2nd Year College Chinese I & II
  • WLIT 2310                    Classical Chinese Literature in Translation 
  • Chinese Characters
  • Classical Chinese
  • Chinese Grammar

Publications

Publications (PDF)