Meng Yeh received a Ph.D. in Linguistics and a Master in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to Rice University, Dr. Yeh was an Associate Professor at Trinity University. Her research interests include language pedagogy, assessment, curriculum design, L2 literacy development, and second language acquisition. Dr. Yeh co-authored two sets of Chinese textbooks, Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese and The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese. Dr. Yeh founded Texas Chinese Language Teachers’ Association in 2007 and served on the board of the National Chinese Teachers’ Association, as well as the Chinese SAT and AP Exam Committee. Dr. Yeh has received the Sarofim Teaching Award from Rice University. She also received the STARTALK grants to offer professional development workshops for language teachers and design Chinese language and culture summer programs for K-12 students from 2007-2020.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

TEXTBOOKS

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide
Claudia Ross, Jing-heng Sheng Ma, Pei-Chia Chen, Baozhang He, Meng Yeh

Modern Mandarin Chinese Levels 1&2: 2nd Edition
Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-chia Chen, Meng Yeh

BOOK CHAPTERS

Assessing Interactive Listening in Beginning - Level L2 Chinese: Developing a Data-Driven Rating Scale
Wei Wang and Meng Yeh (authors)

L1 - L2 Speaker Interaction: Affordances for Assessing Repair Practices
Katharina Kley, Silvia Kunitz, Meng Yeh (authors); M. Rafael Salaberry, Albert Weideman, Wei-Li Hsu (editors)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“The Effect of Instruction on the Development of L2 Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language” (System)

"Using Authentic Doctor–Patient Consultations in Improving Communication Skills" (Foreign Language Annals)