• Chair: Marjorie Chan, CLTA President

• Chinese CALL:Development and Collaborative Approaches (Shu-ning Sciban, Chair)
• Programming Multi-media Courseware -- Challenges for CALL for Chinese (Xiao-jie Yang)
• Improving Listening Comprehension Skills Using Multimedia Materials (Ying Wang)
• How to Teach Listening Comprehension Skills with Chinese CALL (Catherine Yu)
• Discussant -- Jianhua Bai

• Taiwanese New Suffix -zu (Chia-ning Chu, Chair)
• Challenges for Teaching Chinese in the U.S. due to Homophonous and Homographic Words across the Taiwan Strait (Ying Du)
• The Role of Taiwanese Language and Culture in Chinese Language Education (Nien-Hsiang Chen)
• Can We Afford to Ignore them? -- The Challenges of Liuxing Ciyu in Chinese Language Instruction (Dela Jiao)

• Concordancers, Concordances, and Chinese Language Teaching (Marjorie Chan, Chair)
• Concordance Programs and Chinese Studies -- A 'Vertical" Approach to the Teaching of Chinese Classifiers (Huey Hannah Lin)
• Mandarin Demonstrative Zhe and Na as Text Reference (Shuhui Su)
• Power, Familiarity, Necessity and Urgency: How do they Affect Chinese Directives (Wei Hong)

• A Call for Action Reseach (Jianhua Bai, Chair)
• Designing Effective Classroom Drills (Fang Liu)
• Fundamental Considerations on Teaching First-year Chinese (Meiqing Zhang)
• Discussant -- Jianhua Bai

• Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (Songren Cui, Chair)
• Cohesion: A Perspective from Students' Errors (Xia Liang)
• Teaching Discourse Grammar: A Critical Component of Advanced Chinese (Kai Li)

• A New Direction in Curriculum Design -- Computing Chinese (Wenchao He)
• Learning and Teaching Chinese Characters: Toward a Component-oriented Net-weaving Model (Chengzhi Chu)
• Proceed Separately and Strike Together: A Dual-track Approach to Teaching Chinese Characters (Jinghua Yin, Chair)
• Discussant -- Chuanren Ke

• Materials and Methods for Newspaper Reading Listening and Speaking (Hsien-I Wu, Chair)
• Event Structure in 'Up' and 'Down' and Interactive Analysis of Metaphorical Extension and (Ming-I Li)
• The Role of Literary Chinese in the Study of Advanced Chinese (Yunwen Kuang)
• Discussant -- Shouhsin Teng

• Vivian Ling, Chair
• In Situ Study of Chinese in 1985 and 2001: Changes in Student Goals and Expectations (Philip Kafalas)
• The Role of Chinese Language Studies in Situ: Lessons from Parallel Experiences with Russian and English (Hairong Cheng)
• Mutually Reinforcing Growth in Teaching and Learning: Developing Chinese Pedagogical Skills by Teaching in the U.S. and in China (Peng Wang)
• Discussant -- Kai Li

• Chair: June K. Phillips, President, ACTFL (Weber State U., Ogden, UT)

Opening Remarks:

Keynote Speaker: Ronan Tynan, Singer, Physician, Champion Disabled Athlete

• Tynan's Picture

• Chair: Marjorie Chan, CLTA President

• The Participants in this interactive session will have the opportunity to discuss effective strategies, classroom activities and resources used in the K-12 Chinese language classroom. The panel chair will solicit interested presenters from K-12 Chinese teachers prior to the meeting via CLASS newsletter; however, the session will also be open for the participants. Each teacher will have up to 7 minutes to present and explain his/her favorite teaching activities. Participants will leave with a package full of ideas which can be tried the next day.

• Integrating Web Exercises with Chinese Language Courses (Sue-mei Wu)
• Enhancing Students' Cultural Understanding through WWW Resources (Yueming Yu)
• Common Problems and Concerns with WWW Exercises (Wenze Hu, Chair)

• Evidence of Interlanguage Studies and "Juxing" or Target Structure Selection (Honggang Jin, Chair)
• Schema Theory, Story Skeleton and Effective Lecture Presentation (Hsin-hsin Liang)
• A Collage of Performance Tasks for Meaningful Classroom Interaction (Lunghua Hu)

• Martha Gallagher, Chair
• Using Commercial Speech Software for Learning Chinese (Julian Chen)
• Visualizing Tones with WinCalis (Stephen LaRocca)
• Combining Speech Recognition with Video (John Morgan)
• Discussant -- Richard Kunst

• A Recent History of CFL Research Studies: Where We've Been and Where We Might Go (Michael Everson, Chair)
• Strategies in Chinese Characters Recognition and Production (Xiaohong Wen)
• Second Language Mandarin Learners' Strategy of Avoidance as Observed in their Tonal Performance in Connected Speech (Qinghai Chen)
• Chinese Word Associations for English Speaking Learners (Song Jiang )

• This meeting provides an opportunity for CLASS members to discuss organizational issues, exchange on-going concerns, and make suggestions for organization's future plan.

• Web-based Listening Comprehension Materials (Weina Zhao)
• A Multi-Skills, Multi-Media Text for the Low-Intermediate Level (Claudia Ross, Chair)
• Web-based Functional Syllabus and Multimedia Chinese for Advanced Learners (H. Lin Domizio)
• Discussant -- Vivian Ling

• Lucy Lee, Chair
• Standard-Based Assessment in a Communicative Classroom (Yu-lan Lin)
• The Use of Authentic TV Broadcast Videos and Pictures in Elementary Chinese Language Classroom (Peiyan Berman)
• Enhancing Chinese Language Teaching and Learning with Technology Integration (Joyce F.H. Ranieri)
• Discussant -- Chih-wen Su

• It Takes a Village to Raise MERLOT: The Chinese Vintage (Kylie Hsu, Chair)
• Using Web Automatic Translation Programs in Teaching Chinese (Tianwei Xie)
• An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning Chinese Proverbs (Jingheng Ma)
• Virtual Reality -- Chinese Sustainment Program at DLIFLC (Wen-chiu Tu)

• Scott McGinnis, Chair
• An Overview of the SAT II Chinese Test (Lucy Lee)
• Student Voices from the Field (Chih-wen Su)
• Test-Item Writing: An Introduction and Mini-Workshop (Gloria Feung)
• Discussant -- Richard Chi and Ted Yao

• Tianwei Xie, Chair
• CALL and the Teaching of Elementary Chinese (Ted Yao)
• The Combined Use of CD and Web in an Intermediate or Advanced Chinese Language Course (Chung-wen Shih)
• Meeting the Needs of Diverse Heritage Students: ChineseNet (Scott McGinnis)
• Discussant -- Chin-chuan Cheng

• The Dilemma that Faces Taiwan in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Chih-ping Chou)
• The Dilemma that Faces China in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Baozhang He)
• Challenges of Learning and Teaching Chinese in Japan (Yuko Hoshino)
• Challenges of Learning Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language: a Study of Learning Strategies (Jennifer Liu, Chair)

• Principles of Performance-based Language Instruction: an Overview (Stephen Fleming)
• Activity Book for Integrated Chinese: an Application of Performance-based Language Instruction (Yea-fen Chen)
• Contextualization of Classroom Exercises (Luding Tong, Chair)
• Transforming Textbook Lessons into Performance-based Language Instruction Lessons (Yan Gao)
• Discussant -- Shuhan Wang

• Sentence-final Particles in Chinese and the 'Relevance Theory' (Yongping Zhu, Chair)
• The Acquisition of Chinese Aspect Markers by English L2 Learners (Rose Lee-yong Tan)
• The Categorization of Particle le and its Implications for Pedagogy (Jun Yang)

• The Use of the Verb-Object Pattern in Chinese (Zong Meng, Chair)
• The Words ji and yi in Pre-Qin Times (Zhirong Wang)
• The Recategorization of Function Words in Chinese (Nairong Qian)
• A Few Issues in the Teaching of Advanced Chinese (Lening Liu)

• Le as a Discourse Marker--A Case Study of Quotative Verbs (Xianming Liu)
• The Function of le in Information Structuring (Aimin Li)
• How Do we Formulate "V-le+Obj.+le" for Students: a Comparison between Chinese and English (Yong Shin, Chair)
• Discussant -- Shouhsin Teng

• Mien-hwa Chiang, Chair
• Enhance Tone Acquisition Among Advanced Students of Chinese -- Attention and Noticing (Fangyuan Yuan)
• The Role of Context in Comprehension and Learning (Dietrich Maiheng Shen)
• Beyond Chinese Character: Vocabulary Learning and Teaching (Grace Wu)

• A Psychometric Investigation of Reading Strategies among Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (Helen Shen, Chair)
• "Bottom-up" or "Top-down"?: Second Language Learning in Chinese Reading Comprehension (Michelle Hsu-McWilliam)
• The Use of Reading Strategies by More Effective and Less Effective Readers of Chinese as a Foreign Language (Li-chun Lee-Thompson)
• Strategies of American Students of Chinese in Taiwan (Wenhua Du & Chun-yin chen)