Submitted by Kirk L. Van Scoyoc
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The department recently welcomed Dr. Yen Kim Nguyen as Assistant Teaching Professor of Vietnamese. Yen started her career as a lecturer of Vietnamese language and culture for foreigners in 2006 at the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Language, Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University (VNU). From 2011 to 2013, she served as a Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese language and culture at the Faculty of Southeast Asian Languages, College of Foreign Languages, Guang Xi University in China. In July 2016, she acted as a Teacher Trainer in the Training course on Methods of Teaching the Vietnamese language at Udon Thani Rajabhat University in Thailand.
Yen is the author of many articles related to Vietnamese language teaching and linguistics, which were published in Vietnam and China. Her interests are in language pedagogy, comparative linguistics, and writing online novels.
She received a BA in Chinese Studies in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2019.
Welcome Yen!