Entries by CLTA

Chinese Teaching Fellow and One-Year Leave-Replacement Chinese Instructor (Phillips Academy, Andover, MA)

January 24, 2018 in /by

* Chinese Teaching Fellow Phillips Academy Andover’s Teaching Fellow program offers those yet to begin a professional career a program of guided classroom work, professional seminars, and exposure to the theories and methods of experienced teaching faculty. In considering candidates for the Andover Teaching Fellowship, the school values academic excellence together with competencies complimentary to […]

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture and Language (Clinton, NY)

January 23, 2018 in /by

The Chinese Program in the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a one-year position in Chinese Culture/Language at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2018. Responsibilities include teaching cultural aspects of the Chinese-speaking world in the successful candidate’s specialization (e.g., cinema/media, literature), as well as advanced-level language […]

Visiting Chinese Position at Pomona College (Claremont, CA)

January 6, 2018 in /by

VISITING CHINESE POSITION AT POMONA COLLEGE The Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at Pomona College invites applications for a full-time 2-year visiting position in Chinese to begin August 2018. Applicants must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English, demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching, and Ph.D. in hand at time of appointment. […]

Instructional Faculty – CLA Modern Languages and Cultures – Non Tenure Track Visiting Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)

January 3, 2018 in /by

Instructional Faculty – CLA Modern Languages and Cultures – Non Tenure Track Visiting Rochester Institute of Technology Requisition Number: 3577BR Contact Name: You can contact the co-Chairs of Search Committee with questions on the position at: Philippe Chavasse (email: pxcgsl@rit.edu) or Zhong Chen (email: zxcgsl@rit.edu), Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, 18 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY, […]

2017 Professional Development Grants

June 10, 2017 in /by

CLTA-USA has awarded the 2017 Professional Development Grants to the following regional associations: CLTA-California,  CLTA-Oregon,  CLTA-Texas, CLTA-Virginia, CLTA-Washington, New England CLTA， Oklahoma-CLTA, CLTA-Indiana Please visit here for more information about regional associations affiliated with CLTA-USA: http://clta-us.org/about-clta/regional-cltas/

National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society

June 10, 2017 in /by

The National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society is founded to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of college students in learning Chinese as a second language, to encourage them to continue to study Chinese after they graduate from college, and to promote the study of Chinese language, literature, and culture in the United States. This year the […]

2017 Professional Development Grants

June 8, 2017 in /by

The CLTA-USA has awarded the 2017 Professional Development Grants to the following regional associations: CLTA-California,  CLTA-Oregon,  CLTA-Texas, CLTA-Virginia, CLTA-Washington, New England CLTA, Oklahoma-CLTA, CLTA-Indiana Please visit here for more information about regional associations affiliated with CLTA-USA: http://clta-us.org/about-clta/regional-cltas/

Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese

May 31, 2017 in /by

Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese is now calling for applications. The award supports the attendance of pre-collegiate and collegiate teachers at training workshops, seminars, conferences, and other in-service learning experiences at local, national, or international levels; and/or to collaborate with a mentor teacher. The application deadline is October 31, 2017. […]

Cengage Learning Awards for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language

May 31, 2017 in /by

Cengage Learning Awards for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language is calling for applications. CLTA members who wish to improve Chinese Foreign Language education in the US through the design, development, and application of new pedagogy, innovative classroom practices, and teaching tools (e.g. multi-media) are welcome to apply. The proposal […]

Report on the 2016 Annual Membership Meeting

January 1, 2017 in /by

CLTA’s Annual Membership Meeting was held in Boston, MA during the ACTFL’s Annual Conference on Saturday, November 19, 2016. The meeting kicked off with a reception – many thanks to the sponsors for the wonderful meal. CLTA’s President, Helen Shen, started the meeting with a warm welcome and expressed her appreciation for the membership’s support […]

STARTALK 2016 Programs

March 17, 2016 in /by

STARTALK has just published their list of programs for 2016.  Chinese language teachers in the U.S. may apply for a program of interest to them.  Here is the URL: https://startalk.umd.edu/public/find-a-summer-program/?f[0]=im_field_st_language%3A39&f[1]=im_field_program_participant_typ%3A183

Volume 50:3, October 2015

October 29, 2015 in /by

In Memoriam: Professor Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh (薛鳳生教授) ··· i Editor’s Message ···ii Articles The Place of Linguistics in CSL Teaching and Teacher Education: Toward a Usage-Based Constructionist Theoretical Orientation ··· 1 Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon Curricular Goals and Curriculum Design: The Case of a College-level Chinese Language Program ··· 23 Han Luo, Lafayette College Writing Practice and […]

Volume 50:2, June 2015

May 27, 2015 in /by

Articles From Corpus Analysis to Grammar Instruction: Toward a usage-based constructionist approach to constructional stratification·················· 1 Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Xinjia Peng, University of Oregon Jing-Yun Chen, Johns Hopkins University   Mapping Chinese Language Pedagogy from 1966 to 2013: A bibliometric study of the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association········ 31 Helena Casas-Tost, Sara Rovira-Esteva Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona […]

Volume 50:1, February 2015

February 11, 2015 in /by

Articles 汉英认知定势及其跨文化转换···················································· 1      陈忠, Beijing Language and Culture University   留学生汉语声调习得中阳上合流的实验研究·································· 19      温宝莹, 南开大学汉语言文化学院      燕芳, 威斯康星大学麦迪逊校区   美国学生汉语基础元音的习得：两字组与句子的对比······················· 43    谢彦, Liberty University   Decoding College Chinese Placement Tests From the perspective of student performance····························· 61        Yan Li, University of Kansas   Review article 美國大學主要文言文教材選篇研究············································· 83    蔡蓉芝, 國立台灣師範大學華語文教學研究所   Reviews Chinese […]

The 2014 CLTA Annual Conference Witnesses Another Year of Growth

January 2, 2015 in /by

By Fangyuan Yuan With Contributions from Weidong Zhang, Claire Kotenbeutel, and Yea-Fen Chen Dec.15, 2014 The Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA) successfully held its 2014 annual conference in conjunction with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in San Antonio, TX from Nov. 21-23, 2014, with the theme of “Reaching Global […]

Volume 49:3, October 2014

October 23, 2014 in /by

Articles A Learner Corpus Study of L2 Lexical Development of Chinese Resultative Verb Compounds································································ 1 Jie Zhang, University of Oklahoma   The Gap in the Use of Lexical Cohesive Devices in Writing between Native Chinese Speakers and Second Language Users····························· 25        Shouji Li, Massey University   Understanding Language Anxiety and Ways to Alleviate it […]

Call for Papers – International Association of Asian Studies

October 13, 2014 in /by

The International Association of Asian Studies will host its national conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 9-14, 2015. This conference is expected to have more than 3,000 attendees. In addition, not fewer than 325 research sessions, round tables, panel discussions, performances and demonstrations will be scheduled throughout the week. In addition to the many scholarly […]

2014 Professional Development Workshop Registration Now Open

September 20, 2014 in /by

Registration is now open for the CLTA Professional Development Workshops, offered to all current CLTA Members attending the CLTA/ACTFL Annual conference 2014. More information and registration forms can be found on the PD Workshop webpage. Registration this year is free. Registration deadline is November 10th, 2014.

Annual CLTA/ACTFL Convention Program

July 19, 2014 in /by

The program for the 2014 Annual CLTA/ACTFL Convention is now available online. Please note the program will continue to be updated as we changes are needed. ACTFL also has a session search page available on their website.

Volume 49:2, June 2014

June 11, 2014 in /by

Articles The Development of Intra-character Radical Awareness in L1 Chinese Children: Changing Strategies····························································· 1 Clay Williams, Akita International University   Literature Circles with Multimedia Support in Chinese Foreign Language Teaching······································································ 27 Xiaoshi Li, Michigan State University   Project-Based Chinese as a Foreign Language Instruction- A Teacher Research Approach······································································ 45 Juanjuan Zhao, University of Cincinnati Gulbahar Beckett, University of […]