• Claudia Ross, "What level is that intermediate level textbook?"
  
• Cynthia Ning, "Materials for the second year: student input, simulated authentic video, and the feature film"
  
• Discussant: Yihua Wang

(we are limited to 24 sessions for 26 slots, so two slots remain empty)

• Wenchao He, "Speaking at a higher level"
• Ping Xu, "Using computers to accelerate the learning of Chinese characters"
• Dela Jiao, "Scale new heights: from speaking to reading and writing"
• Zhiqiang Yu, "Speeding up the learning of standard pronunciation"

• Eugenia Tu, "Summer language study in China: Practical by-products"
• Jane Parish Yang, "Internships in China: matching company needs with intern skills"
• Jane Kuo, "Overseas internships: planning, management and logistics"
• Discussant: Qinghai Chen

• Chair: Theresa Chang-Wei Jen
  
• Hwawei Ko, "The construction of the Chinese Proficiency Test"
• Winnie Auyeung Lai, "An analysis of the public examinations on Mandarin Chinese for L1 and L2 learners"
• Chang Yu Wen, "The validity and reliability of the Chinese Proficiency Test"
• Te-ming Ye, "A study of the frequency of the Chinese lexicon"
• Discussants: Richard Li, J. Wheatley

• Meng Yeh, "Chinese cinema: a historical and cultural perspective"
• Libin Cui, "TV, newspapers and culture"
• Xiaohong Wen, "Improving reading strategies through an understanding of culture"
• Stephen Field, "The culture of business in contemporary China"

• Chair: Martha Wang Gallagher
• Shixiong Tang, "The effectiveness of concentrated versus diffuse study of characters"
• Likang Su, "Theory and practice of learning characters through focus on phonetic sets"
• Luan Cui, "Promoting reading and writing by using phonetic spelling"
• Discussant: J. Wheatley

• Hsin-hsin Liang, "Teaching Chinese heritage language school from a college language teacher's viewpoint"
• Kylie Hsu, "Cultural learning in a heritage language classroom"
• Hao Sun, "Interactive, meaningful and beneficial: group dialogue journals"

• Miao-fen Tseng, "Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese: implications for teaching"
• Yuan Tian, "A reliability analysis of a second year Chinese midterm"
• Huey Lin, "Phonological awareness in reading Chinese: some pedagogical implications"

• Tao-chung Yao, "Website: ways to enhance a Chinese course"
• Tianwei Xie, "IRC:online tutoring, consultation and discussion"
• Chung-wen Shih, Interactive CD in the learning of Chinese language and literature"
• Discussant: Cecilia Pao-Yung Chu

• Wei-ling Wu, "Why Chinese for Youth? - classroom reality and curriculum standards"
• Margaret Wong, "What Chinese for Youth? - a comprehensive and systematic language program"
• Hai-Lan Tsai, "How does Chinese for Youth integrate language and culture?"

• Wenze Hu, "A brief critique of Chinese computing and mass-input systems"
• Chin-Chuan Cheng, "Pinyin input without breaking the flow of thought"
• Shih-Chang Hsin, "Utilizing Chinese application software as tools for teaching and learning Chinese"
• Discussant: Shou-Hsin Teng

• Cecilia Chang, "Comprehensive monitoring strategies in reading Chinese"
• Mien-hwa Chiang, "Students' Chinese learning strategies at intermediate and advanced levels"
• Songren Cui, "What strategies do successful learners of Chinese use"

• Galal Walker, "Getting into the game: meeting the expectations of Chinese interlocuters"
• Xiaobin Jian, "Argumentation in the context of Chinese culture"
• Jing Wang, "Participating in the target culture: teaching perspectives in advanced Chinese"

• Chair: Chih Wen Su
• Yu-Lan Lin, "Becoming familiar with the national standard"
• Claire Kotenbeutel, Hal Nicholas, "Connections, comparisons, and community"
• Carol Chen-Lin, "Targeting the five C's"
• Discussant: Catherine Yen

• Matthew B. Christensen, "A systematic approach to effective video use in the Cantonese classroom"
• Marjorie K. M. Chan, "Speech analysis software for aural-visual feedback in learning Cantonese tones"
• Weiping Wu, "Considerations in developing job-relevant tests in Cantonese"
• Dana Bourgerie, "Computer-assisted learning software for beginning Cantonese"

• Stephen Fleming, "New Web/CD-ROM based authentic reading lessons in Chinese"
• Jung Ying Lu-Chen, "A model for performance-based teaching, testing, and the WWW"
• Suzanne M. Zeng, "Multiple uses of the web in teaching business Chinese"

• Chih-ping Chou, "Language versus content: the principles of compiling advanced readers of modern Chinese"
• Xia Liang, "Teaching grammar at advanced levels"
• Kai Li, "Discrete utterances are not enough: How to develop coherent structures in extended discourse"
• Discussant, chair Gregory Chiang

• Chair: Lucy Lee
• Lynn Thompson, "What is SOPA and how is it useful?"
• Huei-Chi Connally, "Using SOPA to assess elementary students oral proficiency"
• Frank Tang, Hsueh-Wu Yao, "Findings of a survey of 102 Chinese language schools"

• Chuanren Ke, "The use of radicals by CLF learners in determining the meaning of unknown characters"
• Michael Everson, "The use of phonetic components by CLF learners in pronouncing unknown characters"
• Shou-hsin Teng, "The acquisition of LE in L2 Chinese"
• Discussant: Yuehua Liu

• Phyllis Zhang, "A new approach to teaching Chinese grammar"
• Yuann Yuann Meng, "A sub-classification of verbs in Mandarin"
• Duan-Duan Li, "A new approach to teaching LE: experiment and results"
• Irene Liu, "A new approach to teaching newspaper reading"
• Discussant: Scott McGinnis

• Robert Sanders, "Sensible 'Shu's': a structural approach"
• Gary Tipton, "The integration of reading and writing in our program"
• Timothy Wong, "Structure oriented Chinese language instruction: a particular case"

• Sue-mei Wu, "Designing a newspaper Chinese reading course"
• Yu Feng, "When spoken meets written expression in Chinese: the case of Chinese newspapers"
• Baozhang He, "Newspaper Chinese materials selection"

• Feng-fu Tsao, "Necessity and feasibility for a CHISEL teacher training center in Taiwan for the 21st century"
• Li-yi Huang, "A new model of teaching pedagogy in CHISELing into the 21st century"
• Chyi-ruey Chen, "Changes and opportunities: teaching spoken Chinese"
• Meei Jing Huang, "An investigation of CHISEL materials in Taiwan"
• Discussant and chair, Ying-che Li

• Symposium: "Adapting textbooks for local curricular needs"
  (Scott McGinnis)

• CLTA Board Meeting
  (Chair: Scott McGinnis)

• Cantonese Language Association
  (Chair: Dana Bourgerie)

• SSCLS advisory board
  (Chair: Wei-ling Wu)

• CLASS board
  (Chair: Lucy LEE)

• CLTA BANQUET (restaurant)

• Chinese Calligraphy exhibition/demo
  San-Bao Li, California State University at Long Beach, CA

• CLASS general
  (Lucy LEE)

• CLTA General Membership Meeting
  (Chair: Scott McGinnis, CLTA President)

• PRC delegation

• Taiwan delegation

• Swap shop
  (Suzy Shen Zien)

• SAT II-Chinese in 1998: An item-writing mini-workshop
  Chair: Tao-chung Yao
  Scott McGinnis, "An overview of the development of the SAT II-Chinese test"
  Dali Tan "An update on the SAT II-Chinese test"
  Chih-wen Su, "Tips for preparing students to take the test"
  Discussants: Richard Chi, Lucy Lee

• Chinese Calligraphy exhibition/demo
  San-Bao Li, California State University at Long Beach, CA