Other publications
Most of my working life has been as a teacher and researcher of Hokkien, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.
I also have Spoken Chinese, a textbook for self-learning Mandarin Chinese, available online.
Below is a list of my academic publications and presentations.
Books | Book chapters | Journal and proceedings articles | Conference papers, invited lectures, and presentations | Dissertation
Books
2014. A Performance Approach to Second Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Koubun. Tokyo, Japan [in Japanese] Publisher’s page Kinokuniya National Library of Japan
2013. Tsukaeru Chinese: A textbook and CD for intermediate Chinese. Touhou. Tokyo, Japan [in Japanese]
2010. Spoken Hokkien: A textbook and CD for basic Hokkien. London: LWW-CETL/SOAS-UCL. Information and samples
2009. Kong Taigi: A textbook on Hokkien for Chinese speakers. Taipei
2007. Spoken Chinese: A textbook and CD for English speakers. Available online
2004. Location and Motion: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Japanese Grammar. Tokyo: Hakuteisha [in Japanese]
2004. A Contrastive Study of Verb-Object Collocations Chinese and Japanese , Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Umiyama Bunka Kenkyujo. Tokyo [in Japanese]
Book chapters
2017. Caused and circumstantial outcomes: A comparative study of Japanese and Chinese grammar. Takahashi (ed.) Suzuki Tai koki kinen ronbunsyu, Nihongo Bunpo Kenkyukai, Japan. pp. 154-170
2010. Looking at Japanese grammar though Chinese: A Study of Causative expressions 2. Nihongokeitai, Hitsuji, Japan. pp. 231-254
2005. Japanese armour. In J. Imanishi (ed.) That‘s why I chose Japan. Japan Book Co, Tokyo. pp. 145-154
2004. Motion and location phrases: A contrastive study of Chinese and Japanese 21 century gengogaku kenkyu: Suzuki Yusuyuki kyouzyu koki kinen ronsyu, Hakuteisha, Tokyo, pp. 44-67
Journal and proceedings articles
2020. (_ with David Nathan). Ghost languages: language and spiritualism in a Siraya community of Taiwan. In Proceedings of the 5th Asia Future Conference on Sustainable Shared Growth. University of the Philippines Los Baños, Manilla pp. 195-204
2014. (_ with David Nathan). Re-imagining Documentary Linguistics as a Revitalization-driven Practice. In M. Jones & S. Ogilvie (eds.) Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization. Cambridge: CUP. pp. 42-55
2014. (_ with David Nathan). Language documentation and pedagogy for endangered languages: a mutual revitalisation. In Peter K. Austin (ed) Language Documentation and Description, Vol 6. pp. 132-160 http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/074
2013. (_ with David Nathan). Divining Siraya: Sources of language and authority in documentation and revitalisation. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on special genres in and around Indonesia. ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 49-58. Download
2012. Chinese Teaching Methodology: thoughts and suggestions. In Touhou, Vol. 2, Tokyo, pp. 11-17
2012. Developing Teaching Materials for Foreign Language Education: Towards a Science of Language Performance. Ochanomizu University. In Studies in Arts and Culture. Vol. 8, pp. 201-214
2012. A Performance Approach to Language Teaching and Learning , Towards the Frontier of International Japanese Studies: The power of trends in literature. In Proceedings of the 1st Asia Future Forum. National Taiwan University, (Mar 2012) pp. 125-137
2012. Chinese Teaching Methodology: thoughts and suggestions. In Touhou, Vol. 2, Tokyo, pp. 11-17
2009. (_ with David Nathan). Language Documentation and Pedagogy for Endangered Languages: a Mutual Revitalisation. In P. K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description. London: SOAS pp. 132-160. Download
2008. (_ with David Nathan). Language Documentation and Pedagogy: Seeking Outcomes and Accountability. In Proceedings of the XII Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (Languages and Language Learning). Leeuwarden, Netherlands, pp. 181-187
2008. Looking at Japanese grammar though Chinese: A Study of Causative expressions. Explanation and Appreciation. In Shibundo (January 2008) pp. 114-130
2006. Taiwanese language teaching and development in the United Kingdom. In Proceedings of the conference for Taiwan Studies: British Perspectives, (December 2006) Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp. 1-10. Download
2004. A comparative study of Japanese and Chinese [Location expression]. Explanation and Appreciation. In Shibundo, (July 2004) pp. 76-92
2003. A Study of noun phrase connectives: Chinese [de] and Japanese [no]. In Taisho Gengogaku Kenkyu Vol 13 (December 2003), pp. 86-105
2002. Phrasal Combinations of Movement and Direction: A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Taisho Gengogaku Kenkyu Vol. 12 (December 2002), pp. 88-104
2002. Location Noun and Motion verb: A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Japanese Linguistics No. 11 (April 2002), National Association for Japanese Language. Tokyo, pp. 55-78
2002. Phrasal Combinations of Destination: A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese. In Studies in Foreign Language Teaching No. 24 (March 2002), Foreign Language Center, Tsukuba University, pp. 51-69
2001. Part 2: Deriving the meanings of Verb and Noun combinations, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Japanese Studies: Explanation and Appreciation (December 2001), Shibundo, pp. 3-11
2001. Deriving the meanings of Verb and Noun combinations, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Japanese Studies: Explanation and Appreciation (July 2001), Shibundo, pp. 109-118
1999. The meaning of grammatical categories, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Japanese Studies: Explanation and Appreciation (January 1999), Shibundo, Japan
1997. New Perspectives on Predicates, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Japanese Studies: Explanation and Appreciation (January 1997), Shibundo, pp. 122-129
1996. Contrast of Japanese Predicates and their Chinese Equivalents, Problems in Comparative Studies. In Japanese Studies: Explanation and Appreciation (July 1996), Shibundo, pp. 33-41
1996. Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar: A Comparison of Verbs and Material Nouns. In Collection of Papers by R.O.C. Scholars in Japan, Vol. 8 (February 1996), Tokyo: Chuo University, pp. 85-94
1995. Locative Preposition ‘Zai’ and [ni], [de], [wo], Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Ochanomizu Women‘s University Journal of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Vol. 19 ( March 1995), pp. 167-177
1995. Noun-Verb Combinations, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. In Ochanomizu Women‘s University Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, Vol. 14 ( April 1995), pp. 51-61
Conferences, invited lectures, and presentations
2020. (_ with David Nathan). Can we apply “large language” teaching methods to endangered and minority languages? Paper pesented at Teaching and Learning Resources for Endangered Languages: 24th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, University College London, 24th Sept 2020.
2020. (_ with David Nathan). Ghost languages: language and spiritualism in a Siraya community of Taiwan. Presentation at The 5th Asia Future Conference on Sustainable Shared Growth, University of the Philippines Los Baños, 9-13 Jan 2020.
2016. Meili Fang & David Nathan. Language, Religion & Authority in Social Change: Shamanic Oratory & Christian Gospel in Southern Taiwan. Presented at The 3rd Asia Future Conference – Environment & Coexistence, The University of Kitakyushu and Atsumi International Foundation, 29 Sept-3 Oct 2016
2016. Meili Fang & David Nathan. Tapping the well: evaluating and adapting teaching LWC methodologies for endangered languages. Presented at The Sixth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment: Curriculum Design and Evaluation for Endangered Languages. University of Cambridge, 6th July 2016
2015. Resultativity in Chinese and Japanese: Comparative study and aid to teaching and learning. Invited Speaker at Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics Oriental Institute, East Asian Linguistics Seminar, Oxford University, UK. 3rd February 2015. Download the seminar files from Oxford University
2013. Meili Fang & David Nathan. Divining Siraya: Sources of language and authority in documentation and revitalization. International Workshop on ‘special genres’ in and around Indonesia. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, 17-19th February 2013
2011. Classroom as Theatre: Drama in a Performance Approach to language teaching and learning, The Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Australian National University, Canberra, 30th November 2011
2011. A Performance Approach to language teaching and learning: Effective Foreign Language method, Towards the Frontier of International Japanese Studies: The power of trends in literature. Invited Speaker at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 27th May 2011
2011. A Performance Approach to language teaching and learning: Concepts for Rapid and Effective Language Teaching and Learning, Invited Speaker at Centre for Language Pedagogy SOAS, University of London, UK, 10th May 2011
2011. Meili Fang & David Nathan. Re-imagining Documentary Linguistics as a Revitalisation-driven Practice. Paper presented at conference on Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalisation, University of Cambridge, UK, 25th March 2011
2011. Learnability and Performance: Concepts for Rapid and Effective Language Teaching and Learning . International Symposium New Prospects for Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 2-3rd March 2011. Download
2010. Effective and Scientific Language Teaching Methodology: A Performance Approach. Invited Speaker at Language and foreign Language Education Research Symposium, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, 20th Dec 2010
2010. Foreign Language Teaching material; Building, Editing and Incorporating Feedback. Invited Speaker at Japanese Language and Literature Department, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, 19th Dec 2010
2010. Accelerated and Effective Language Teaching and Learning: Performing Across Cultures. Second Language Acquisition of Chinese, International Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1-2nd Oct 2010
2010. Rapid Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: A Performance Approach. Invited Speaker at Japanese Language and Literature Department, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, 7th May 2010
2010. New Methodology for Chinese Language teaching and learning: A Performance Approach. Invited Speaker at Chinese Literature Society, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, 24th April 2010
2010. Methodology for accelerated and effective language teaching and learning . Winter School in Saami Language Documentation and Revitalization, Bodo University College, Norway, 7th March 2010
2010. A Performance Approach to Language Teaching and Learning. Invited Speaker at Women Educators and Language Learners, National Women‘s Education Center, Tokyo, Japan, 13th Feb 2010.
2009. A Creative Method for Language Teaching and Learning: A Performance Approach . Invited speaker at The Institute of Oriental Culture Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 26th November 2009
2009. Performing across Cultures: Drama in the Classroom. Keynote Speaker at Workshop on Using Drama in Language Learning, SOAS-CETL , University of London, UK, 13th November 2009. See video of presentation
2009. Performance Approach in Teaching and Learning Putonghua. Workshop on Linguistics and Teaching CSL (2nd session), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 23-26th Apr 2009
2009. A Performance Approach to Second/Third Language Teaching and Learning. Multilingualism, Regional & Minority Languages: Paradigms for ‘Languages of the Wider World’, SOAS, University of London, UK, 16-17th April 2009
2009. A ‘Performance Approach’ to minority language teaching and learning. The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i, USA12-14th March 2009
2008. Meili Fang & David Nathan. Language Documentation and Pedagogy: Seeking Outcomes and Accountability. Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL XII), Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 27 September 2008
2008. A Performance Approach to Language Teaching and Learning. Invited paper at The Seventh International Symposium on Taiwanese Languages and Teaching, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 6-7th, September 2008
2008. Meili Fang & David Nathan. Language Documentation and Pedagogy for Endangered Languages: a Mutual Revitalisation . Invited paper at Workshop on Language Revitalisation and Maintenance, SOAS University of London, UK, 9th Feb 2008
2006. Taiwanese language teaching and development in the United Kingdom. Invited paper at Studies: British Perspectives, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2006
2006. The Causative in Chinese. Paper at the Japanese Grammar Association, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, March 2006
2005. Japanese postpositions and Chinese prepositions: A contrastive analysis using Rengoron. Seminar, SOAS University of London (Department of Linguistics), UK, January 2005
2004. Japanese postpositions and Chinese prepositions: A Study in Comparative Grammar. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2004
2003. [de] and [no] : A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Paper read at the Japanese Grammar Association, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, November 2003
2002. Motion Verb and Location Noun Phrases: A Contrastive Study of Chinese and Japanese. Australian Linguistics Society 2002 Conference. Sydney, Australia, 13-14th July 2002
2001. Motion and location phrases: A Rengoron analysis. Paper read at the Japanese Grammar Association, Daito Bunka University, Japan, October 2001
2000. Contrast of Japanese combinations, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. The 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics. University of Singapore, Singapore, July 2000.
2000. The Theory and Structure of Japanese Language Education, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Paper at Symposium of the School of Japanese Studies in a Global Perspective 2, Ochanomizu Women‘s University Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, July 16th 2000
1999. Semantic typology of motion terms. Paper at the Victorian South-East Asian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 1999
1998. Location and motion verbs, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Paper read at the Japanese Grammar Association, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan, February 1998
1997. On the Combination of Accusative Spatial Nouns and Verbs of Motion in Japanese and Chinese, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Paper at the Association of Linguists, Tokyo, Japan, 5th December 1997
1996. A Contrastive Study of Verb-Object Collocations Japanese and Chinese, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Paper read at a Meeting on the Study of Japanese Grammar, Tokyo, Japan, 10th October 1996
PhD Dissertation
1997. A Contrastive Study of Verb-Object Collocations in Japanese and Chinese, Studies in Comparative Japanese and Chinese Grammar. Ph.D. Dissertation, Ochanomizu Women‘s University, Tokyo. Japan