Sally Zeng, a provincially recognized language and literature educator, is head of Mandarin Chinese at Pansophy education. Sally provides expert instruction in AP Chinese Language and Literature, BC Chinese 11-12, and multiple K-12 curricula from Greater China. Sally regularly trains and advises language educators both within and outside of Pansophy. Sally is especially adept at adapting rigorous language and literature curricula designed for native Mandarin-speaking students to the overseas Mandarin-as-a-second-language-context. The vast majority of Sally’s ab initio Mandarin Chinese students, and a majority of her student population overall, are fully bilingual or multilingual.
Sally’s Pansophy students have won top prizes in the Vancouver Chinese Library Writing, Vancouver Chinese Library Youth Public Speaking, and Beijing Youth Writing competitions. Her students’ Mandarin Chinese writings have been published in the Essay section of Sing Tao Daily as well as Canadian and Chinese youth writing anthologies. Under Sally’s leadership, Pansophy has won the overall school prize (for the largest number of student winners) in the Vancouver Chinese Library writing and public speaking competitions since its founding in 2015; her private students have swept the individual prizes since 2012. Sally’s students, many of whom leverage their bilingual or multilingual abilities to pursue successful careers in business, medicine, and education, have been admitted to top universities around the world.
Between 2008 and 2015, Sally was a private teacher as well as an educator with several prominent education companies in Greater Vancouver. Sally’s pedagogical writings received awards from the Fujian Essay Competition, and her classroom performance earned repeated top places, special prices, and Distinguished Head Teacher designation from the Fujian Provincial Competition for Classroom Instruction.
Sally received her B.A. in Literature and Education from Huadong Teachers College (Fuzhou, China).