Sijia Zhou MA, Linguistics

Head of Chinese Language

Sijia Zhou has been teaching Chinese language at XJTLU since 2011. Sijia has been developing and delivering a wide range of Chinese teaching materials to international students and staff, creating assessments, and undertaking Module Leader and Internal Moderator for many Chinese modules.

Sijia was appointed as Head of Chinese language since 2020 and responsible for curriculum and administration of Chinese Division in Modern Languages Centre.





  • Summer Certificate Program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), issued by Columbia University, in collaboration with the Macau University of Science and Technology, 2020
  • Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages issued by Confucius Institute Headquarter, 2018
  • BA, Northeast Normal University, 2004-2008
  • MA, Fudan University, 2008-2011


  • Chinese Language Lecturer, XJTLU, 2011- Present
  • Exam Officer of Chinese language, XJTLU 2015-2018
  • Head of Chinese language, MLC, XJTLU 2020-Present


  • Chinese Grammar
  • Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
  • Task Based Language Teaching


  • The Licensing conditions of indefinite subject marked by "one+quantifier+noun" (first author), Linguistic Sciences, 2013 (4). CSSCI


  • 08/2014 “Research on the application of videotaping in Chinese Language Teaching”, Paper presented at the 8th Canadian Teaching Chinese as a Second Language International Conference, Vancouver, Canada
  • 05/2017 “Methodology on Integration of Culture into Chinese Class” presented on the 15 International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education organized by the British Chinese Language Teaching Society
  • 07/2019 "Analysis on Stylistic Features of Academic Chinese from the Perspective of Abstracts of Economics Papers” presented in the Chinese as International Language, organised by Asia-Pacific Consortium on Teaching Chinese in Singapore


  • 2019, Principal Investigator, Exploring Chinese for Academic Purposes Curriculum Development in XJTLU, Teaching Development Fund, XJTLU


  • 2020, member, MLC Student-staff Liaison Committee
  • 2015-2018, member, Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee


  • Module Leader, CLT211, 311 Chinese Language Stage 11&12


  • CLT021 Intensive Chinese language Stage 1&2
  • CLT007, 008 Chinese language Stage 7, 8
  • CLT211, 311 Chinese Language Stage 11&12


  • 2018,International Society for Chinese Language Teaching


  • 2012 the 1st prize in International Chinese Course Planning Competition organised by “Experiencing Chinese” Higher Education Press
Sijia Zhou