Ben Pin-Yun Wang

Ben Pin-Yun Wang is an Associate Teaching Professor and Chinese Language Coordinator in the Pacific and Asian Studies department at the University of Victoria. He holds a dual-title PhD in Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies from Pennsylvania State University (PSU). His expertise lies in teaching Chinese as an additional language, Chinese linguistics, and pedagogical approaches informed by cognitive-functional and corpus-based methodologies.

Education: BA and MA from National Taiwan University, PhD from Pennsylvania State University.

Research interests include language pedagogy, curriculum development, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and Taiwan studies. His work emphasizes data-driven learning activities and metaphor analysis in Mandarin Chinese.

Publications focus on applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, and cognitive approaches to language teaching, contributing to methodologies in Chinese second language acquisition and curriculum design.

As coordinator, he oversees Chinese program administration, student advising, curriculum planning, and instructor training. He has taught at UVic since joining and previously held roles at PSU and National Taiwan University.

Teaching responsibilities span all Chinese language levels, cultural courses on Taiwan, and content-based instruction in linguistics and translation.