Pei-Chia Chen

Born and raised in Taiwan, Pei-Chia Chen has been teaching Mandarin Chinese in the U.S. since 1999.  She holds a bachelor degree in Western Literatures, and a Master of Arts degree in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Before joining the Program of Chinese Studies at UC San Diego in 2004, she taught Chinese at Harvard University for five years.

Office: HSS 3085
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Books:

• The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Textbook and Workbook Level 1 (in Simplified and Traditional Characters) Authored by Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-Chia Chen and Meng Yeh.
• The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Textbook and Workbook Level 2 (in Simplified and Traditional Characters) Authored by Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-Chia Chen and Meng Yeh. 
• Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook Authored by Claudia Ross, Jing-heng Sheng Ma, Baozhang He and Pei-Chia Chen. 
• Elementary Chinese (Harvard First-Year Textbook) Authored by Baozhang He, et al. 

Conference Presentations:

• Character Literacy Research to Support Best Practices in CFL Instruction, CLTA annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
• The Encoding and mental representation of Chinese characters: using research to support the teaching of Chinese characters, CLTA-SC workshop, Irvine, CA, 2012. 
• The Encoding and mental representation of Chinese characters: using research to support the teaching of Chinese characters, CLTA annual meeting, Denver, CO, 2011. 
•  Bridging the Gap: from simple sentence to paragraph, CLTA annual meeting, Boston, MA, 2010.
• Putting Culture at the Core of the Language Lesson, presented with Claudia Ross, CLTA annual meeting, San Diego, CA 2009.