Yongzhen Li 李永貞

Yongzhen Li is an experienced Mandarin educator with more than 20 years of experience in Chinese language teaching and teacher training. She holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in Chinese Literature from National Sun Yat-sen University, where she currently teaches at the Chinese Language Center. She has taught Mandarin from beginning to advanced levels, with an emphasis on learner-centered instruction and the integrated development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. At Middlebury in Taiwan, she has taught courses including Taiwan in International Relations, Business Chinese, and One-on-one tutorials.

Yongzhen has extensive experience in curriculum and materials development, language assessment, and teacher training. Her teaching and professional work span Chinese grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation and oral communication, academic reading and writing, and Taiwanese culture and society. She also works with pre-service and in-service Mandarin teachers on language pedagogy and classroom practice.

Her professional interests include Chinese syntax, cognitive semantics, discourse linguistics, second language acquisition, and advanced Chinese pedagogy.