Dr. Yili Shi

Role: Faculty Emeritus
Campus: Springfield

Details

Education

  • PhD, completed in 1998, Ball State University

Teaching

  • ENG 110:  Freshman Composition (for nonnative speakers)
  • ENG 296:  Introduction to Linguistics
  • ENG 591/691:  Linguistic Theory
  • ENG 593/689:  Studies in Linguistics: Discourse-Based Grammar
  • ENG 593/689:  Studies in Linguistics: Historical Linguistics
  • ENG 494:  Dialects and Sociolinguistics
  • ENG 596/696:  Materials & Assessment in TESOL
  • ENG 597/697:  Practicum in TESOL
  • ENG 505/605:  Methods in TESOL
  • ENG 793:  Seminar, Linguistics:  Discourse Analysis

Research and professional interests

  • Chinese linguistics
  • Discourse-pragmatics
  • Comparative studies of Chinese and English discourse grammar
  • English as a second/foreign language

Awards and honors

  • Summer Faculty Fellowship, MSU, 2008
  • University Teaching Award, MSU, 2006
  • Sabbatical Leave, MSU, Fall 2005
  • Summer Faculty Fellowship, MSU, 2005
  • College Service Award, MSU, 2004
  • College Research Award, MSU, 2003
  • College Teaching Award, MSU, 2002