Min Yue (SFHEA)
Teaching Fellow in Chinese; Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4231
- Email: min.yue@ed.ac.uk
- Asian Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages, and cultures
Address
- Street
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Room 4.38B (4th Floor)
50 George Square
Edinburgh - City
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Background
Min Yue is a Teaching Fellow in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh. She began her career teaching English and Chinese in China after completing a BA in Language Teaching Methodology. In 2009, she moved to the UK to undertake an MA in Chinese–English Interpreting at Middlesex University, where she trained under Dr Kevin Lin. Following professional work as an interpreter and translator, she returned to higher education language teaching, holding posts at the University of East London and the London School of Economics.
Min joined the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and has since held extensive leadership roles as Course Organiser across undergraduate, postgraduate, and Foundation provision. She served as Coordinator of the Chinese Foundation Language Programme since 2021, overseeing eight courses and large-scale student enrolment. She has been repeatedly nominated for Teacher of the Year, and several of her courses have received Outstanding Course nominations.
Min’s teaching combines rigorous language training with cultural, historical, and real-world perspectives. Her interests include language teaching methodology and technology-enhanced learning, with a strong focus on creating inclusive, engaging, and confidence-building learning environments for students.
CV
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Undergraduate teaching
Courses and classes she has been involved:
Chinese 1 NPCR Textbook
Chinese 2A/Chinese 2 (teacher and CO for 2017--2023, was nominated as 'Outstanding Course' in 2020-21 and in 2021-22)
Chinese 2C/Chinese 3 (CO and teacher)
Chinese 4A/Chinese 5 (CO in 2018 and teacher)
Foundation Chinese Language 1 (CO and teacher)
Foundation Chinese Language 2 (CO and teacher, was nominated as 'Outstanding Course' in 2024-25 )
Foundation Chinese Language 3 (CO and teacher)
Foundation Chinese Language 4 (CO)
Foundation English-Chinese Translation (CO)
Postgraduate teaching
Chinese Language 1A: Oral Tutorial
Chinese Language 1B: NPCR Tutorial
Chinese Language Advanced 1: Extensive Reading
Chinese Language Intermediate 1A: Reading and Writing
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
Yue Min’s areas of interest and research include:
* Online and blended learning.
* Flipped Learning in Higher Education language teaching.
* Task Based Learning in language teaching.
* Innovating feedback on student written work through Screen Capture software.
* Improving tutor-student dialogue via Online Student Response Systems such as Socrative.
Project activity
In 2018, she received funding through the School(LLC) and designed 'Chinese Summer Online Course 1' which was a pioneer project in Asian Studies. This summer online course was for supporting Chinese degree students to continue their study during the summer period.
Conference details
She was one of three key speakers for an online assessment workshop on 28/01/2022: The Design and Use of Digital Assessment in Chinese Language Courses. This workshop was jointly organised by Confucius Institute of Scotland, the University of Edinburgh, and the British Chinese Language Teaching Society, was opened to all teachers from UK schools and universities.
1. Screen Capture Technology: 10 useful ways to hep your teaching more effective 26/06/2019
2. Quizlet and Quizlet Live: Make your classroom more fun and interactive 21/05/2021
3. How to use Learn-test for your online assessment 26/10/2021
4. A case study: Using Google Forms to conduct Chinese 2A online replacement test (was opened to all UK school and university teachers) 28/01/2022