2002 CLTA Annual Meeting Program

Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
NOVEMBER 21-24, 2002

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THURSDAY, November 21, 2002

6:00 - 10:00 pm
Wyndham: Blue Spruce Room
CLTA Board of Directors Meeting
  • Chair: Claudia Ross, CLTA President

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FRIDAY, November 22, 2002

9:30 - 10:45 am
Room 251C Room 251D
Profiles of CFL Reading Process and Strategies
  • Charting the orthographic awareness stages for CFL learners (Ke)
  • The Interactive Reading Model and Reading Strategies: A study of Learners of Chinese (Shen)
  • Difficulties that American Learners Encountered in Reading Chinese (Lee-Thompson)

    Helen Shen, University of Virginia
    Chuanren Ke, University of Iowa (Chair)
    Li-chun Lee-Thompson, Butler University

Using Media in Teaching Chinese
  • A CALL template for Video-based Instruction and Exercises (Xu)
  • Beginning Chinese via Distance Learning (Chen)
  • A Linguistic Study of Concepts Used to Teach Broadcast Mandarin (Riha)

    De Bao Xu, Hamilton College
    Yea-Fen Chen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Helena Riha, Ohio State University (Chair)

2:45 - 4:00 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
The Role of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Strategies in Chinese Language

  • The Role of Formulaic Speech and Psycholinguistic Constraints in Teaching and Learning Patterned Structures (Jin)
  • Communicative Tasks Affecting Classroom Communication: An analysis of Teacher/Learner and
    Learner/Learner Talk (Liang)
  • The Role of Executive Control in Chinese Acquisition Process (Chang)

    Cecilia Chang, Williams College
    Hong Gang Jin, Hamilton College (Chair)
    Hsin-hsin Liang, University of Michigan
Pedagogy and Technology: A Happy Marriage
  • The State of the Penless Chinese Project (Xu and Jen)
  • A Review on multimedia Testing: Practice and Pedagogical Concerns (Wang)
  • Online Chinese Language Learning: An Integrative Model (Liu)

    Ying Wang, Mount Holyoke College
    Jennifer Liu, Indiana University, Bloomington (Chair)
    Ping Xu, Baruch College
    Theresa Jen, Bryn Mawr College

4:15 - 5:30 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
Continuum from Form-Focused to Content Based Instruction in Advanced Chinese Classes

  • Re-evaluating and Restructuring Advanced-level Curricula (Chiang)
  • Training of analytical Skills in Advanced Language/Literature Class (Dietrich)
  • From Advanced-Reflections on Advanced Business Chinese Instruction (Yuan)

    Mien-hwa Chiang, University of Pennsylvania
    Jianhua Bai, Kenyon College
    Maiheng Shen Dietrich, University of Pennsylvania
    Fangyuan Yuan, University of Pennsylvania (Chair)
Vocabulary Acquisition and Instruction
  • Verbal Reduplication and Its Related Issues in Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language (Bai)
  • Dealing with New Words in Pre-intermediate Chinese Classes (Xu)
  • Characters and Words: Understanding the Acquisition of Chinese Vocabulary (Yin)

    Quan Bai, Dartmouth College
    John Jing-hua Yin, University of Vermont (Chair)
    Weihe Xu, Middlebury College

5:45 - 7:00 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
Adapting Multimedia to the Teaching of Advanced Chinese

  • Using TV Talk-show Programs to Construct Pedagogical Materials for Advanced Chinese language Learners (Wang)
  • The Functions of Multimedia in the Teaching of Classical Chinese Idioms at the Advanced Level (Li)
  • Communicating in Chinese through the Internet: Contextualization in Advanced Chinese (Jian)

    Minru Li, Ohio State University
    Xiaobin Jian, College of Williams and Mary
    Jianqi Wang, Ohio State University (Chair)

Governance of a Chinese Language Program in the USA
  • Challenges for Chinese Language Programs in the US and How We Face Them (He)
  • How We Meet the Needs of Our Students (Sun)
  • How Important is the Qualification of Chinese Language Teachers (Chou)

    Chaofen Sun, Stanford University
    Chih-ping Chou, Princeton University
    Baozhang He, Harvard University, MA (Chair)

6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room 254C
CLASS Board Meeting
  • Yu-Lan Lin, CLASS President

7:15 - 8:30 pm
Room 251D
CLTA General Membership Meeting
  • Claudia Ross, CLTA President

8:30 - 10:00 pm
Room 251C
Chinese Language Teaching Materials Swap Shop
  • 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 open for the participants. Each teacher will have up to seven minutes to present and explain his/her favorite teaching activities. Participants will leave with a lot of excellent ideas that can be tried the next day.

    Min Zhang, Indiana Academy
    Carol Chen-Lin, Choate Rosemary Hall, CT

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SATURDAY, November 23

8:30 - 9:45 am
Room 251C Room 251D
Linguistic Analysis and Pedagogy
  • Textual Level Interpretation Skills in Teaching the Elementary Chinese (Su)
  • Ni hao! (Hello, I'm a foreigner) : A Pedagogy of Greetings in Mandarin Chinese (Christensen)
  • Acquisition Research of Aspectual Particles by Adult Learners : Challenges and Solutions (Yang)
  • Approaching Content, and Process of PGC (Xing)

    Jun Yang, University of Arizona
    Matthew B. Christensen, Brigham Young University
    Shuhui Su, University of Hawaii
    Janet Zhiqun Xing, Western Washington University (Chair)

Strategies for Teaching Chinese
  • Strategies for Reading Chinese Characters: an Empirical Study (Wen)
  • When Linguistics Meets Pedagogy: How to Teach Chinese Characters More Effectively (Chao)
  • Cultural Aspects Related to Language Teaching (Xu)
  • An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning Chinese Proverbs (Ma)

    Jing Heng Ma, Wellesley College
    Heping Xu, Defense Language Institute
    Fang-yi Chao, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Xiaohong Wen, University of Houston (Chair)

10:00 - 11:15 am
Room 251C Room 251D
Theories and Practice of Teaching Pronunciation
  • Pedagogical Application of Phonological Insights into the Mandarin Pinyin System (Wang)
  • The Pinyin World---A Multimedia Approach to Chinese Pronunciation System (Hughes)
  • Adaptation for Successful Recognition of Student Speech: Some First Applications for Chinese Learners (Morgan and Gallagher)
  • Discussant (LaRocca)

    Stephen A. LaRocca, US Military Academy
    Haning Z. Hughes, US Air Force Academy
    John Morgan, US Military Academy
    Martha Wang Gallagher, US Military Academy (Chair)
    Jenny Wang, US Naval Academy

Language, Evaluation, and Curriculum
  • Shocking Our Students to the Next Level : Language Loss and Some Implications of National Standards (Hayden)
  • L2 Chinese Grammatical Diagnostic Tests (Teng)
  • How Interactive Web-based Exercises Affect Students' Chinese Language Learning Experience (Teng and
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    Shouhsin Teng, National Taiwan Normal University (Chair)
    Jeffrey J. Hayden, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Chunhong Teng, Michigan State University
    Dennie Hoopingcarner, Michigan State University

11:30 - 12:45 pm
Room 251C
CLASS General Membership Meeting
  • This meeting provides an opportunity for CLASS members to discuss organizational issues, exchange on-going concerns, and make suggestions for organization's future plan.

    Yu-Lan Lin, Boston Public Schools

1:00 - 2:15 pm
Marriot: Solitude Room
CLASS Luncheon

1:30 - 2:45 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
Materials Development
  • Developing Orthographic Awareness Among Beginning CFL Learners: A case Study of Two Text Books (Everson)
  • A Comparative Study of Vocabulary in Beginning Chinese (Jiang)
  • Interactive Theme-based Materials Development (Hsu)
  • The Effect of Facilitating Chinese Instruction with a Theory-Driven Course Web Site (Feng and Lu)

    Kylie Hsu, California State University
    Ming Feng, SUNY at Buffalo
    Xuehong Lu, SUNY at Buffalo
    Song Jiang, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Michael Everson, University of Iowa (Chair)
Film, Language, and Society
  • Integrating Film into the Curriculum at the Advanced Level (Shi)
  • Using a Film to Improve Chinese Language Proficiency (Cai)
  • Chinese Society in the New Millennium (Lee)
  • Discussant (Ma)

    Carolyn Kunshan Lee, Duke University (Chair)
    Yaohua Shi, University of Massachusetts
    Jing Heng Ma, Wellesley College
    Jie Cai, Duke University

4:30 - 5:45 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
Integrating Classical and Modern--Some Tactics in teachings
  • Cong Hanyu de Yanbian yu Jicheng Kan Yufa Jieshi de Helixing yu Tongyixing (Liu)
  • A Study of Replacement of Chinese Coverb (Preposition) (Zhu)
  • Wenyenwen de Zhangju, Juxing Jiaoxue (Li)
  • Zai Yuedu Gudai Hanyu Guocheng Zhong, Shici Ciyi de Lijie Wenti (Chiang)

    Yongping Zhu, Princeton University
    Liu Lening, Columbia University
    Joanne Chiang, Princeton University (Chair)
    Kai Li, Oberlin College
Chinese Film, Literature and Curricular Innovation
  • Challenges and Potential in Teaching Chinese Cinema (Chen)
  • Integrating Literature with Language: Teaching Chinese through Poetry (Jiao)
  • Seeing is Disbelieving: the Privilege of Word over Image (Wang)
  • Discussant and Chair (Tang)

    Rujie Wang, College of Wooster
    Dela X. Jiao, New York University
    Yanfang Tang, College of William and Mary (Chair)
    Jianhua Chen (Oberlin College)

6:00 - 7:15 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
Dynamic Acquisition of Language Skills at the Advanced Level
  • Some Important Aspects in Teaching Advanced Chinese (Liang)
  • Facilitating Active Acquisition of New Vocabulary at the Advanced Level (Zhu)
  • Syntax Errors at the Advanced level (Crossland)
  • Teaching the "Unteachable": Why, What, and How (Chen)

    Qinghai Chen, University of Michigan (Chair)
    Qi Zhu, Stanford University
    Jeff Crossland, IUP at Tsinghua University
    Xia Liang, Washington University
Integrating Multimedia Materials into the Chinese Language Curriculum
  • Study of Chinese Festivals---Integrating A WebQuest into the Chinese Language Curriculum (Chen)
  • A Wedding Banquet---Integrating Computer Technology with Chinese Courses (Wu)
  • Empower Teaching by Integrating Multimedia into the Chinese Curriculum (Bai)
  • Jiaocai de Yinxianhua Chuli (Liu)

    Jianhua Bai, Kenyon College (Chair)
    Nien-Hsiang Chen, Harvard University
    Sue-mei Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
    Fang Liu, Oberlin College

8:00 pm - 10:00(?) pm
Golden Phoenix Restaurant
CLTA 40th Anniversary Celebration
  • Banquet and Roundtable Discussion
    This evening will include a special anniversary panel: "CLTA past, present and future."

    PANELISTS: George Chao, University of Chicago
    Chauncey Chu, University of Florida
    C.P. Sobelman, Columbia University
    John Young, Seton Hall University (retired)
     
    LOCATION:     Golden Phoenix Restaurant
    1084 S. State Street
    Salt Lake City, UT 84111

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SUNDAY, November 24

8:30 - 9:45 am
Room 251C Room 251D
The SAT II Chinese Test: A Forum and Workshop
  • An Overview of the SAT II Chinese Test (Kaye)
  • Student Voices From the Field (Su)
  • Test Item Writing : An Introduction and Mini-Workshop (Feung)
  • Discussant (Yao and Chi)

    Tao-chung Yao, University of Hawaii
    Gloria Feung, Enloe (NC) High School
    T. Richard Chi, University of Utah
    Kim Kaye, Educational Testing Service
    Chih-wen Su, Amherst Regional High School, MA
    Scott McGinnis, National Foreign Language Center, Washington, DC (Chair)
Linguistic Analyses in Pedagogical Application
  • Examining Grammatical Difficulties of Chinese for American Students (Liu)
  • Teaching of "Pastness" in Chinese (Li)
  • Discussion on Yi and Its Grammar Applications (Feng)
  • Description, Selection and Sequencing of Measure Words (Zhang)

    Yuehua Liu, Harvard University (Chair)
    Aimin Li, Harvard University
    Yu Feng, Harvard Universiity
    Zheng-sheng Zhang, San Diego State University

10:00 - 11:15 am
Room 251C Room 251D
Thoughts and Practice in Teaching Chinese Grammar
  • The Context and Standard Language used in Chinese Textbooks in US (Swihart)
  • Typology of Construal Operations and Students Errors (Chu)
  • Some Thought About Time Duration (Liu)
  • Discussant (Liu)

    De-an Wu Swihart, University of Memphis
    Xianmin Liu, Vanderbilt University (Chair)
    Chengzhi Chu, Stanford University
    Yuehua Liu, Harvard University
Issues in Chinese Literacy Development
  • Literacy Development for Students of Advanced level Chinese Classes (Yu)
  • Assessment of Literacy Development and HSK (He)
  • Introducing Web-based Learning Materials to Help Lower-level Students Develop Literacy (Chao)
  • Discussant (Chu)

    Yueming Yu, Carnegie Mellon University
    Wenchao He, New York University
    Madeline Chu, Kalamazoo College
    Der-lin Chao, Hunter College, City University of New York (Chair)

12:15 - 1:30 pm
Room 251C Room 251D
Integrating Thematic Units in Chinese Classes
  • Connecting Thematic Instruction to Standards (Lee)
  • Web-Enhanced Thematic Module on Chinese Language Instruction (Fu)
  • Measuring for Success: Standards-Based performance Assessment (Lin)
  • Discussant (Su)

    Lucy Lee, Livingston High School/ Educational Testing Service (Chair)
    I-Ping Fu, Virgina Tech and Radford University
    Yu-lan Lin, Boston Public Schools
    Chih-wen Su, Amherst Regional High School, MA
Taiwanese Language Teaching and Materials
  • Taiwanese Teaching Resources (Tseng)
  • An Ideal Taiwanese Beginning Textbook for Taiwanese Americans (Li)
  • Developing An Interactive Taiwanese Language Textbook (Wu)
  • Discussant (Gammon)

    Chin-Chin Tseng, National Taiwan University
    Khinhoan Li, Harvard University
    Grace Wu, University of Pennsylvania (Chair)
    Roderick Gammon, University of Hawaii


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