National Academy for Educational Research

Shih-min Li's research focuses on linguistics, corpus linguistics, and semantics and constructions in Taiwan Hakka. She is primarily interested in the forms of Mandarin and Taiwan Hakka that exist in Taiwan, and she has participated in the research and construction of the written and spoken corpora of these two languages. Related research has included lexical semantics, the interaction of lexical semantics and constructions, aspect system, and language contact and variation.

In NAER, language education is her main research interest, and her research topics have expanded to corpus-based language education research, e.g., characters, words and grammars used by native and non-native speakers of Taiwanese Mandarin, and corpus-tool-based analyses of Mandarin synonyms. Recently her research has extended to native languages education, including studies on parts of speech in Taiwan Taigi, elementary and high school teachers’ in-service training on native languages, and Hakka-Mandarin bilingual translation.

Her works are mostly cross-disciplinary and applicable to contrastive analyses of languages, natural language processing, and language education.