Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae - Shijie YAO
CONTACT
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
School of Foreign Languages
800, Dongchuan Road,
Minhang District, Shanghai, 200240
Personal Homepage:
www.shijieyao628.com
E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
EDUCATION
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
09.2013-06.2017 (expected)
B.A. in Japanese
School of Foreign Languages
Major GPA: 3.98/4.0 94.78/100
Overall GPA: 3.99/4.0 92.1/100
Ranking: 1/21
Noteworthy Courses: Japanese Intensive Reading, Japanese Writing, etc.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
02.2015-06.2017 (expected)
 Minor in English
 School of Foreign Languages
 Noteworthy Courses: Introduction to Linguistics, English Culture and Translation, Academic
Writing in English, English Intensive Reading, etc.
Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan (on a One-Year Exchange Programme) 04.2015-02.2016
 Faculty of Intercultural Studies
 GPA: 3.85/4.0
 Noteworthy Courses: Neurolinguistics, Speech Communication, Seminar in Corpus
Linguistics, Seminar in Phonetics and Phonology, Seminar in Teaching Japanese as Second
Language, etc.
STUDY INTEREST
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General Linguistics
TERM PAPERS
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『日本語における「—でる(出る)」と英語における「-out」との対象研究』 (Comparison
of “でる(出る)” and ”-out”), 2015.7, written in Japanese as the term paper for Seminar in
Teaching Japanese as Second Language in KBU
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『日本人と中国人の相互の文字の理解度について』 (The Respective Degree of
Understanding of Each Others’ Characters in Japanese and Chinese of These Two People),
2015.7, written in Japanese as the term paper for Japanese Studies in KBU
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『「All of the above」に続く(助)動詞の表現型について―British National Corpus に基
づいての研究』 (Research about the Form of the (Auxiliary) Verbs Following the Phrase “All
of the above”), 2016.1, written in Japanese as the term paper for Seminar in Corpus
Linguistics in KBU
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『中国語を母語とする日本語学習者の濁音と清音を改善するための提案』 (Proposals
for Bettering Distinguishment and Pronunciation of the Voiceless and the Voiced Sounds in
Japanese for Chinese Native Speakers), 2016.1, written in Japanese as the term paper for
Seminar in Phonetics and Phonology in KBU
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『日本語の歌詞に見られる「当て字」について』 (Research about the Phenomenon of
“Ateji” in Japanese Lyrics), 2016.5, written in Japanese as the report for Japanese Writing in
SJTU
“A Corpus-Driven Study on Comparison of News about Ai Fukuhara Between Chinese Online
Media and the Japanese Counterpart”, 2016.8
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『コーパスに基づいて日中四新聞社による「福原愛」の報道を対象に日中関係につい
ての考え』, Ongoing
AWARDS
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Scholarship for Outstanding Students in School of Foreign Languages of Shanghai Jiao Tong
University (Top 1%) 2014.6
Merit Student of SJTU (Top 3%) 2014.6
Japan “JASSO” Scholarship for International Students 2015.4
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Assistant PTA, Boston Consulting Group
05.2016
 Assisted with the development project of Xianghe County, Hebei Province, China
 Provided useful data about Japan as reference to PTA and did Japanese-Chinese translation
Chinese and English Teacher, WILL Foreign Languages Centre, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
09.2015-01.2016
 Prepared materials in Chinese and used the Oxford textbooks provided by the center to
teach Chinese and English to Japanese students of various ages and from all walks of life
(e.g.a 16-year-old senior three student, a 25-year-old government lady, a 34-year-old
salaryman, etc.)
 Received praise from all of the students and therefore got a bonus from the boss
Assistant Editor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, Shanghai, China
07.2014-08.2014
 Sort out proper nouns (e.g. names of people and organization, titles of file, names of wars
and events, etc.) from the first-hand materials about the Tokyo Trial, edited by Shanghai Jiao
Tong University Press, and assisted with the editing of the index of the Tokyo Trail Series
LANGUAGE CAPABILITY
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Mandarin and Shanghai Dialect: Mother Tongues
English Proficiency: IELTS 7.5 (Listening 8.5+Reading 8.0+Writing 7.0+Speaking 7.0)
Japanese Proficiency: JLPT-N1 169 (Language Knowledge 60+Reading 60+Listening 50)