Yvonne Tse Crepaldi is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Committed to bridging research and practice, her work examines everyday interactions spanning across contexts such as parent-child interactions, multilingual settings, and healthcare. Through exploring the intersection of language and culture in in social behavior, her research aims to seek insights that could help foster communication, relationships and well-being.

Using Conversation Analysis, she investigates how children's language use reflects their social cognition, how social norms are acquired, and dynamics among multilingual families. In healthcare communication, she contributed to research with specialist clinics in Singapore analyzing doctor-patient interactions and family involvement in healthcare. Currenlty, she is a member of XJTLU’s interdisciplinary Health Humanities Research Group.

With prior corporate experience, she welcomes collaboration with industry and institutions in research and in translating research into practice. In addition, as an International Engagement Officer for the Department of Applied Linguistics, she welcomes global partnerships for exchange opportunities for students and faculty members. 

• Conversation Analysis
• Parent-child interaction
• Child language and social cognition
• Healthcare communication
• Doctor-patient interaction
• Family Language Policy
• Early multilingualism

Modules at XJTLU:

• LNG002 Introduction to English Studies
• LNG303 Final Year Project
• LGN301 Analyzing Text

Modules taught and assisted at NTU:

• CC0001 Inquiry and Communication in an Interdisciplinary World
• HG2033 & HG4030 Conversation Analysis
• HG2010 Bilingualism
• HG2012 Cognitive Linguistics
• HG2020 Language in Society
• HG1001 Fundamentals of Linguistics: Mind and Meaning