Ablimit Baki Elterish

Additional Information

Teaching:

• I teach BA and MA courses of Mandarin Chinese at all levels.
• I teach an MA course, Introduction to Xinjiang (Uyghur) Studies, as a Directed Reading Unit upon request.
• I also co-teach an MA course, Border Crossings-Comparative Cultures of Diaspora: the case of Uyghurs.

2006- present  Teaching Mandarin Chinese at all levels; teaching translation; teaching Introduction to Xinjiang (Uyghur) Studies as Directed Reading Unit for MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies; acting as residence abroad tutor, all at the University of Manchester

2004-2006 Teaching Chinese Newspaper Reading, Interpreting/Translating, Uyghur language at Department of East Asian Studies, Durham University; Beginner's Chinese at Durham Business School and Language Centre, Durham University

2003-2006 Reading a PhD in Chinese Studies at Durham University

2002-2003 Working for Kashgar University (former Kashgar Teacher's College) in Kashgar, Xinjiang, PR of China

2001-2002 Reading MSc in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh

Prior to 2001 Teaching English, Chinese, Linguistics, Chinese Culture and Silk Road Culture at Kashgar University (former Kashgar Teacher's College), Kashgar, Xinjiang, PR of China

• Contemporary Chinese language,culture and society, especially minority people and their languages in a majority culture (e.g. Uyghurs and Xinjiang in China)
• Chinese language and culture contact (e.g. language-dialect-culture contact, Silk Road)
• Chinese language teaching and learning (e.g. Chinese at levels 1-3)
• Translation and interpreting (Chinese/Uyghur-English vice versa)