Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by: Dongdong Chen, Ph.D.
With China's economic rise in the world arena, a unprecedented number of Americans have been attracted to learning Chinese as reflected in the 51% increase in enrollment in colleges and universities from 2002 to 2006 by the American Modern Language Association's latest survey, and the 100% increase in the K-12 enrollment of Chinese from 2000 to 2007 by the survey of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The immediate consequence of this “Chinese Fever” poses serious challenges as well as exciting opportunities. The Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York (CLTA-GNY) 2009 Annual Conference and Seventh New York International Conference on the Teaching of Chinese, to be held at the Jubilee Hall of Seton Hall University on May 16, will address these issues, focusing on the following topics:
TECHNOLOGY: Using technology in the Chinese language classroom
STUDENT MOTIVATION: Increasing student motivation through creative approaches
ADMINISTRATION: The administrative challenges posed by the rapid rise of Chinese language education and the critical shortage of qualified Chinese teachers
PEDAGOGY: The differences between approaches to teaching Chinese to different student populations
LINGUISTICS: Understanding and explaining Chinese syntax, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics
Dongdong Chen, Ph.D., director of the Chinese program at the Asian Studies Department serves as co-chair of this conference. The other co-chair is Dr. Wenchao He from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
As one of the leaders in the nation, the Department of Asian Studies started to offer courses in Chinese as early as the 1950s. In 2006, the department launched an additional graduate track in the Master of Arts (M.A.) in Asian Studies with a concentration in Teaching Chinese Language and Culture. For more information about the Chinese Program and the conference registration, please contact Dr. Dongdong Chen at (973) 761-9465 or chendong@shu.edu.
For more information please contact: Dongdong Chen, Ph.D. (973) 761-9465 chendong@shu.edu
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