PhD - Language Policy & Language Education
Shanghai International Studies University · Shanghai, China
Doctoral work connecting language policy, language education, and technology.
About
Academic Path
An academic journey across France, the United Kingdom, and China.
I usually go by Sifaks, or Danny in English — and 邬熙汐 in Chinese. Take your pick. I like languages, and I like figuring out how we learn them even more. That’s probably how I reached a near-native level in Chinese (Mandarin — not every dialect, not yet). When I’m not studying languages, I build things: my other passion is sharing how to learn efficiently, and I hope you find something useful here.
Fun fact: I can do a backflip on ice, and I once hit Challenger in League of Legends. Each happened only once.
Education
MPhil - Research in Second Language Education
University of Cambridge · Cambridge, United Kingdom
Faculty of Education — SLA research and applied linguistics.
Master FLE - Français Langue Étrangère
Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III · Paris, France
Didactique des langues - French as a foreign language.
Bachelor's - Foreign and Regional Languages, Literatures, and Civilizations (Chinese Language Studies)
Université Paris Cité · Paris, France
Undergraduate studies in Chinese language, linguistics, language sciences, and history.
Certified Language proficiency
C2 IELTS (8.5)
Advanced English proficiency for academic research.
HSK 6 · 270
Advanced Chinese proficiency.
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