Joanne Chen

Professor of Chinese, Irvine Valley College, CA, USA

Education: B.A. History - National Taiwan University, Taipei,

M.A. Art History - Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Professor Chen was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating from NTU, she came to the US to pursue her graduate studies and started to teach Chinese. She has taught Chinese at secondary schools and college level students and has over fifteen years of experience. Professor Chen is also involved in many volunteer projects in local Chinese schools, including language teacher's workshops, writing curricula of Chinese courses; and developing computer aided language learning projects. She has over 20 academic presentations at ACTFL, Chinese language teaching conferences and California Language Teacher’s Association since 1996. Professor Chen utilizes her many years of teaching, traveling, and working with students to create the Total Chinese Beginning Chinese Level 1 and 2.

The CLERC Award of Distinction 2012

Outstanding Chinese Language Teacher of the year

The Chinese Language Teachers Association of Southern Californian (CLTA-SC, hyperlink https://clta-sc.us/ ) board has unanimously selected IVC Professor Joanne Chen as the receiver of the 2012 CLERC (Chinese Language Education and Research Center) Award for Outstanding Chinese Teaching for her great contributions to CLTA-SC by offering her expertise in using technology for Chinese education. This award includes a two week visit to China with an all-expense-paid trip by CLERC.