Yong Wei
Associate Professor
Academic Literacy and Linguistics
EMAIL: ywei@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-499D
Office Hours: Office Location: The main campus, Room N499D; Office Phone: 212-220-1426; Email ywei@bmcc.cuny.edu; Office Hours vary each semester, but they will be in the syllabus each semester. Other than office hours, Professor Wei can be reached by email.
Phone: +1 (212) 220-1426
Professor Yong Wei graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1996 with an Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics. His training in Applied Linguistics and teaching have helped him develop insights into teaching ESL students.
Professor Wei has been teaching ESL at BMCC since 1994, and, before joining BMCC, he had already worked for several years as an ESL instructor.
Expertise
Professor Wei understands learning how to write well for ESL students is very challenging and he likes to approach it in an organized way to cover all the aspects of it so that by the end of the program, students will be able to write with a lot more confidence and ability to function in college and beyond. Professor Wei tries to help students achieve that and acquire a solid foundation at the same time to handle different writing tasks (some of which can be quite challenging) that students will face in the future.
Degrees
MA and EdD in Applied Linguistics.
Courses Taught
- ESL 96 is an intensive integrated skills course that emphasizes academic writing and critical reading for ESL students. It focuses on basic components of effective writing and reading, including essay organization, paragraph development, sentence structure, word choice, and content. Students demonstrate comprehension of texts of varying lengths and genres by reading and responding to a variety of texts and using argumentation, narrative, and description as modes of developing ideas in writing. Students demonstrate critical reading skills related to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This course is designed to help students master and apply a full range of college-level reading and writing skills in English.
Research and Projects
Professor Wei has researched how to continue to help ESL students with their English proficiency who have mainstreamed into their major programs.
Publications
Professor Wei has published a book: Developing an Active Vocabulary.
