Mien-hwa Chiang is a senior lecturer in Foreign Languages in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Penn in year 2000 as the head of the Chinese Language Program (CLP), after teaching at Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University Summer Program in Beijing, and Middlebury Summer Chinese School. She has 30 years of experience in Chinese language and culture teaching and likes to utilize innovative approaches and technology in course development and improvement. She had been awarded more than $1 million in grants for the Penn Chinese Language Program. Her research and teaching in recent years focused on Teaching Chinese for Specific Purposes, including Business Chinese, Media Chinese and the upcoming Legal Chinese.
- M A. General Linguistics, Ohio University
- M.A. Chinese Pedagogy, Ohio
- Ph.D. East Asian Studies and Chinese Linguistics, Ohio State University
- CHIN 0860 Business Chinese I
- CHIN 0870 Media Chinese
- CHIN 1060/6060 Advanced Business Chinese I
“ 宾夕法尼亚大学中文项目的历史、发展与创新“， Journal of Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching. With co-authors Jing Hu and Ye Tian. Special issue (2022) pp. 15-23. “高年级媒体中文课的相关概念与教学“ 国际汉语教学学报 （2022）Vol 3.1 pp. 14-23. “美国外语教学的五大目标与高年级汉语教学” 汉语国际教育学报. (2020). Journal of International Chinese Education, vol. 7, pp. 46-60.
- Chinese Language Teachers Association, Life-time member
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Member
- Taoli Chinese Language Educators in the Mid-Atlantic, Immediate Past President (2023)