Curriculum Vitae

DR. GAN YEE CHIN

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics
    Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
  • ganyeechin
  • 0379673112

AREAS OF EXPERTISE


  • APPLIED LINGUISTICS
    Corpus linguistics, Corpus-assisted discourse analysis (CADS), Chinese lexicology, Multilingualism

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION


  • PH.D, (CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
    Tsinghua University
  • M.ARTS, (CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
    Tsinghua University
  • BSC, (HUMAN DEVELOPMENT)
    Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES


  • Coordinator
    02 Mar 2023 - 01 Mar 2025 (Department)
  • Committee Members
    06 Sep 2023 - 05 Sep 2024 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Committee Members
    06 Jul 2023 - 16 Jul 2024 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Committee Members
    02 Mar 2023 - 01 Mar 2024 (University Malaya)
  • Acting Head of Department
    27 Dec 2023 - 29 Dec 2023 (Department)
  • Acting Head of Department
    02 Aug 2023 - 07 Aug 2023 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Acting Head of Department
    29 May 2023 - 30 May 2023 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Committee Members
    12 May 2022 - 12 May 2023 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Acting Head of Department
    03 Mar 2023 - 07 Mar 2023 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)

MEMBERSHIPS


  • MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE LINGUISTICS, MEMBER
    Since 2024 (International)
  • MEMBER OF THE MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (MAAL), MEMBER
    Since 2024 (National)

AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP


  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2024 (University)
  • FLL MOST VALUABLE PERSON AWARD 2022 (MVP)
    FLL, UM, 2023 (University)

RESEARCH PROJECT


International
  1. 2023 - 2027, International Funding
    Research on the Semantic Map of Chinese Prepositions ( , National Social Sciences Fund ( Co-Researcher)
  2. 2022 - 2024, Special Cooperation Project in Humanities (2022K2A9A2A20097289)
    Discursive Representations of Overseas Chinese, Korea Foundation ( Co-Researcher)
University
  1. 2024 - 2024, University Grant - Managed by ADEC
    Mah Meri Indigenous Knowledge: Enhancing Communication and Presentation Skills through Cultural Immersive Learning ( Principal Investigator(PI))

CONSULTANCY PROJECT


  • Content Creation for Ytl Foundation's Learn from Home Community Project, FrogAsia Sdn. Bhd.
    26 Dec 2023 - 29 Feb 2024 (National)
  • Cultural & Language Enrichment Programme (Clep) 10 July 2023,  SIYIDA EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SDN BHD
    10 Jul 2023 - 10 Jul 2023 (National)

PAPER PRESENTED


INVITED SPEAKER
  1. Chinese Education in Malaysia and China, ur Story: 50 years of friendship between China and Malaysia, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia and Southeast Asia Research Centre for Humanities (SEARCH) (International) (20 Aug 2024 - 20 Aug 2024)
  2. Exploring Malaysian Culture, History and Language, Cultural and Language Enrichment Programme, SIYIDA EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SDN BHD (International) (10 Jul 2023 - 10 Jul 2023)
  3. UMRC FORUM: THE CHALLENGES FACED BY EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS, Universiti Malaya Research Carnival (UMRC), Institute of Research Management & Services (National) (10 Jan 2023 - 10 Jan 2023)
  4. Get to know Chinese culture, Thammasat University-UM Intercultural Summer Programme, FBL, UM and Thammasat University, Thailand (International) (21 Dec 2022 - 31 Dec 2022)
  5. Mandarin Chinese variety in Southeast Asia: Taking Malaysian Vocabulary as an Example, Language as a window to culture webinar , Dong A University, Vietnam (International) (15 Dec 2022 - 15 Dec 2022)
POSTER PRESENTER
  1. A Corpus Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Public Signs in China During the Zero Covid-19 Policy, The twelfth International Corpus Linguistics Conference, Lancaster University (International) (03 Jul 2023 - 06 Jul 2023)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES


Evaluation
  1. (2023) Phd. Proposal Defense (Jiewei Chen), University, (Internal Examiner)
  2. (2023) Candidature Defence (Gokul Jayakumar), University, (Internal Examiner)
  3. (2023) Mobility Program (Outbound) & Related Collaborations Academic Affairs as Well as The Promotion of Higher Degree Programs of The Faculty of Language and Linguistics, International, (External Assessor)
  4. (2023) Reviewed Manuscript, International, (Reviewer)
  5. (2022) Candidature Defence of Lai Lanlan (17201553/1), University, (Internal Examiner)
  6. (2022) Proposal Defence by Phd Candidate - Song Hu (S2107894), University, (Reviewer)
  7. (2022) Cd of Master's Degree Candidate : Li Shuyao (17222038/1), University, (Reviewer)
  8. (2022) Pd of Phd Candidate: Qingqing Zhang(S2035780/1), University, (Reviewer)
Contribution to event
  1. (2023) Panel of Judges for The Eslite Spectrum Malaysia Best Malay Slogan Competition, National, (Panelist/Moderator)
  2. (2023) International Malaysian Languages and Linguistic (Chinese) Workshop 2023 (Imcl2023), International, (Event Organiser)

SUPERVISION


Under Graduate Students
  1. (2023) The Production of Humor Effect from the principle of Cooperation -- Take the fourth season of Talk Show Convention as an example
  2. (2023) Multimodal Discourse Analysis on Malaysian Movie
  3. (2023) Comparing Linguistic Landscape of Restaurant Signs in Kimberley Street and Love Lane, Penang
  4. (2023) An Investigation of Chinese Halal Restaurants in Malaysia from a Semiotic Landscape Perspective – A Case Study of Din Tai Fung
  5. (2023) A Critical Discourse Analysis of Patriotism Education in Malaysian Chinese Primary School History Textbooks
  6. (2023) Industrial Training, Low Yun Ning, Tiong Tang Chii, Zhou Yuhui
  7. (2022) Characteristic Verb/Verb phrase in Malaysian Chinese based on China Press newspaper
  8. (2022) A Survey of Novel Words used in Malaysia during Covid-19 Pandemic
  9. (2022) A Study of the Subtext of Five Malaysian Teochew Operas
  10. (2022) An analysis of the Similarities and Differences Between Chinese and Japanese Food Names in Japanese
  11. (2022) Industrial Training, Fong Lee Sim
Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) SOCIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN CHINESE CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH, HUANG DENGXIAN
  2. (2024) Research on the Interaction Mechanism of Grammaticalization and Subjectification of "He"Type Function Words, SHI MIAO
  3. (2024) LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL CHALLENGES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR CHINESE DOCTORAL STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY IN A SELECTED MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITY, SUN KAIXUAN
  4. (2024) A Descriptive-Comparative Study on the Translation of the Culture-Specific Items of Fushengliuji, XU ZHANG
  5. (2024) RESEARCH ON CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF THE CHINESE CLASSICAL TRANSLATOR¿S STYLE, WANG YANGZI
  6. (2024) Subtitle Translation From the Perspective of Multimodal Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of The Wandering Earth, ZENG GUIMEI
  7. (2023) Translation Strategies in Chinese Smartphone Brand Taglines and Their Impacts on Malaysian Consumers, ZHAO MIN
  8. (2023) A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Artificial Intelligence in China and US Press, YIWEN FAN
  9. (2022) A COMPARISON OF MACHINE AND HUMAN ERRORS IN CHINESE-ENGLISH LITERARY TRANSLATIONS, Jinhao Jiang
  10. (2022) A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION NARRATIVES IN SELECTED YOUTUBE VIDEOS, HUANG XINXIN
  11. (2021) THE APPLICATION OF DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING APPROACH IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY LEARNING, Xu Zhang

TEACHING


Bachelor
  1. (2022) TIC1012 - Linguistics Theories in The Context of The Chinese Language
  2. (2022) TIC3003 - Methods in Chinese Language Research
  3. (2022) TIC1011 - Morphosyntax of Modern Chinese Language
  4. (2022) TIC3005 - The History of Chinese Language
  5. (2022) TIC2011 - Translation Theories and Practices
  6. (2022) TIC3002 - Translation Theories and Practices