• Chair: Chuanren Ke, CLTA President

• Lei Wu, Bershire School: Linking Standards to the Curriculum
• Diane Mammone, Quabbin Regional High School: Performance-based teaching: Using folktales to teach the younger learners
• Shouping Li, McDowell Intermediate High School: A multimedia approach to help students learn Chinese (Li)
• Discussants: Chih-Wen Su, Amherst Regional High School, Carol Chen-Lin, Choate Rosemary Hall

• Martha Wang Gallagher (Chair), US Military Academy
• Likang Su, Beijing Education Institute: Teach Character by Character Group (Su)
• Cui Luan, Beijing People's Educational Press: Focused vs. Scattered ways of learning Characters (Cui)
• Jinming Chen, Capital Normal University: Character Recognition and Children's cognitive Development
• Discussant: Julian Wheatley, MIT

• CHAIR: Chen-Lin Carol, Choate Rosemary Hall

• Donald E. Gjertson, University of Massachusetts
• Su-chuan Chung, Rebbecca Johnson School
• Chih-wen Su, Amherst Regional Schools

9:30 - 10:45 am

• Der-lin Chao (Chair), Hunter College: Foreign Languages Standards and Teaching Heritage Learners
• Cecilia Chang, Williams College: National Foreign Language Standards and Liberal Arts College Chinese Curriculum
• Hsin-hsin Liang, University of Michigan: How ACC's study abroad program meets the standards for Foreign Language Learning
• Discussant: Neil Kubler, Williams College

• Jennifer Li-chia Liu (Chair), Indiana University: Vocabulary Acquisition by Intermediate and Advanced Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language
• Xia Liang, Washington University: On Teaching Level III Chinese
• Chih-ping Chou, Princeton University: Missing Link: Between Intermediate and Advanced
• Mien-hua Chiang, Princeton University: Concerns and Methods of Teaching Literary Works in the Language Classroom

• ACTFL President Paul Garcia (Chair)
• Opening Remarks: CLTA President Chuanren Ke, and other Presidents of ACTFL-affiliated associations
• Keynote Speaker: Esmerald Santiago, Latina Writer, Activist, Mentor

• Meng Yeh (Chair), Trinity University: Recruiting the First-Year Students
• Claudia Ross, College of the Holy Cross: Chinese Language Programs and Area Studies
• Mark Hansell, Carleton College: Accommodating Heritage Learners and Other Students with Special Needs in a Small College Setting
• Hong Gang Jin, Hamilton College: Study Abroad is an Integral Part of Foreign Language Education

• De Bao Xu (Chair), Hamilton College: An Easy to Use Template for Chinese Multimedia Exercises
• Su Jane Wu & Kirsten Speidel, Swarthmore College: Using Web-based Interactive Exercises to Assist Chinese Language Learning and Teaching at Swarthmore College
• Wen-chiu Tu, Defense Language Institute: Chinese Orthography on the Web
• Jim Ferolo & Li-Cheng Gu, Northwestern University: Introduce a New Site "Kan tu shizi"

Panel discussion:

• Training TAs to assess written assignments-Maintaining Consistency
  
• Developing and Implementing Program-specific Rubrics for Curricular Goals
  
• Suggestions for Assessing TA Performance

Madeline Spring (Chair), University of Colorado, Boulder
Tao-chung Yao, University of Hawaii
Hsiao-jung Yu, University of California at Santa Barbara
Fang-yi Chao, University of Colorado, Boulder
Irene Liu (tentative), Columbia University
Tina Jenkins, University of Colorado, Boulder
Discussants: Cheryl Krueger, University of Virginia
Robert Davis, University of Oregon

• Shou-hsin Teng (Chair), National Taiwan Normal University: Testing Chinese Grammar
• Zong Meng, Foreign Service Institute, State Department: Repetition in Mandarin
• Shin Yong, Beloit College: "le" vs. "shi. . .de"
• Wenze Hu, Harvard University: Understanding the Chinese Conceptual Structure and Chinese Language Teaching

CHAIR: Chuanren Ke, CLTA President

8:30 - 9:45 am

• Jianhua Bai (Chair), Kenyon College: Developing Pragmatic Competence: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
• Qun Ao, Brandies University: A Collaborative Achievement: What does research tell us about correcting tonal errors?
• Xiaoqi Wu, Kenyon College: The Adverbial and Complement of State/Degree
• Chengzhi Chu, University of Hawaii/Stanford University: Corpus of Chinese Interlanguage (CCI) 1.0: Design, Functions, and Applications

• Vivian Ling (Chair), Inter-University Program
• Tong Zhang, Yale University/2000-2001 IUP: Broadcasting Program "Half-hour at Noon" as advanced listening and speaking materials
• Yan Li, Indiana University: How we use "Focus" in Teaching Chinese
• Neil Kubler, Williams College: Adopting Xiangsheng as materials for Post-basic Training
• Discussant: Vivian Ling

• Tao-chung Yao (Chair), University of Hawaii
• Lucy Lee, ETS and Livingston High School, NJ: An Overview of the SATII-Chinese Test
• Chih-wen Su, Amherst High School & Dali Tan, Landon School: SAT II Chinese -- a pre-collegiate perspective
• Scott McGinnis, National Foreign Language Center: SAT II Chinese -- a collegiate perspective
• Discussant: Richard Chi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

• Le-ning Liu (Chair), Columbia University: The Study of Chinese Grammar (and the teaching of Classical Chinese
• Matthew B. Christensen, Brigham Young University: Teaching Discourse Grammar Strategies in the Chinese Classroom
• Li-Yuan Chen, National Taiwan University: On Teaching Chinese Sentential Particles
• Janet Xing, WWU: Commendatory and Derogatory Expressions in Mandarin Chinese

• Kai Li (Chair), Oberlin College: Integrating Classical Chinese and Modern Chinese to the Undergraduate Curriculum
• Su-mei Wu, Harvard University: Classical Chinese Instruction in the Context of American Pedagogy
• Joanne Chiang, Princeton University: How to Increase Proficiency in Modern Chinese While Studying Classical Chinese

• Jingheng Ma (Chair), Wellesley College Authentic Film and Active Learning
• Nyan-Ping Bi, University of Washington: Seeing Is Believing: Video-Taping and Self-Correction
• Hilda H. Tao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Learning Pronunciation/Grammar via Conversations (a new CD Rom of 27 Skits)
• Christopher Crocoll, Foreign Service Institute, US Dept. of State: Mastering the Celestial Dialects: The Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language before the Twentieth Century

• Jerome L. Packard (Chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Hui-Mei Hsu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: The Web-based CFL Environment: A Technical Perspective
• Yi-Ping Hsu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: How Effective is Web-based Instruction in CFL Teaching?
• Jiaying Lin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Motivation, Study Time and Student Performance in the Web-based Classroom
• Discussant: Chin-Chuan Cheng, City University of Hong Kong/Un. Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• James E. Dew (Chair): A Student's Dictionary Shelf: Notes on Some Important Chinese Dictionaries of Recent Vintage
• Yea-Fen Chen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Foreign Language Reading Anxiety
• Yufen Lee Mehta, Cornell University: Authentic and Advanced Reading : News-style Materials
• Ling Zhao, Smith College: On Teaching Reading Again

• Tianwei Xie (Chair), California State University, Long Beach: Submitting Multimedia Homework Electronically in a Web-Based Course
• Jeff Winters, California State University, Long Beach: Managing a Chinese Course on the Web
• Sanpao Li, California State University, Long Beach: Using Multimedia CD ROMs to Enhance a Web-Based Language Course
• Discussant: Cecilia Chu, University of California, Berkeley

• Audrey Li (Chair), University of Southern California
• Yi-chia Ingrid Hsu, University of Southern California: Word boundaries and reaching performance for learners with oral competence in Chinese
• Xiu-zhi Zoe Wu, University of Southern California: How beginner level learners of Chinese benefit from the indication of word boundaries
• Chih-Ping Andrew Chang, Mt. San Antonio College: Word Boundaries and Selection of Reading Materials
• Discussant: Audrey Li Chair), University of Southern California

8:30 - 9:45 am

• John Jinghua Yin (Chair), University of Vermont: Study Methods Employed by American Students in Memorizing Chinese Characters
• Meiqing Zhang, Brown University: The Teaching of Chinese Characters at the Entry Level
• Yihua Wang, University of California at Los Angeles: Characteristics of Teaching Chinese Characters to Chinese Heritage Learners
• Discussant: Chaofen Sun, Stanford University

• Maiheng Shen Dietrich (Chair), University of Pennsylvania: Grammar in Discourse Construction
• Xianmin Liu, Vanderbilt University: Why Not "Ta kan le liang tian de nei ben shu?"
• Aimin Li, Harvard University: Evaluative Function Implicit in Grammatical Structures
• Discussant: Theresa Chang-hwei Jen, Bryn Mawr College

• Chuanren Ke (Chair), The University of Iowa: An Overview of the CLTA Articulation Project
• Claire Kotenbeutel, James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, WI: CLTA Articulation Project -- A Pre-collegiate Perspective (Kotenbeutel)
• Xiaohong Wen, University of Houston: CLTA Articulation Project -- A Collegiate Perspective
• Discussants:

  Theresa Chao, Los Angeles, CA
  Richard Chi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  Lucy Lee, ETS and Livingston High School, NJ
  Scott McGinnis, National Foreign Language Center
  Lianggen Zheng, Michigan

• Kunshan (Carolyn) Lee (Chair), Duke University: Individual Sessions: a way to reinforce accuracy and proficiency in listening and speaking skills outside of the Chinese Language classroom
• Judy Z. Mu, Washington University: Learner Differences and Curriculum Design
• Ying Wang, Mount Holyoke College: Meeting Students" Individual Needs
• Lunghua Hu, Brown University: Correcting Pronunciation During Individual Sessions

• Jing Wang (Chair), Colgate University: Meaning in Advanced Level Chinese Learning and Instruction
• Galal Walker, NEALRC Ohio State: Experiencing Chinese Culture
• Li Yu, The Ohio State University: Cultural Knowledge Compilation and Genre Training in Advanced Chinese Reading and Writing
• Discussant: Yanfang Tang, The College of William and Mary

• Phyllis Zhang (Chair), Columbia University: Tools that Make Tasks Work
• Yuanyuan Meng, Columbia University: Teaching Listening and Speaking Through Broadcast News
• DuanDuan Li, Columbia University: Discovering and Making Meaning Together I Writing (Li)
• Hailong Wang, Columbia University: Pedagogical Approaches to Formal Correspondence