| ARTICLE IX |
| FINANCIAL AND CONTRACTUAL MATTERS |
Section 9.01. Deposit of Funds
Section 9.02. Checks, etc.
Section 9.03. Loans
Section 9.04. Contracts
Section 9.05. Transfer of Securities
Section 9.06. Fiscal Year
Section 9.07. Maintenance of Records
Section 9.08. Audit of Accounts
Section 9.09. Distribution of Assests on Dissolution
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| ARTICLE VIII |
| STANDING COMMITTEES |
Section 8.01. Nominating Committee
Section 8.02. Program Committee
Section 8.03. Finance Committee
Section 8.04. Awards Committee
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| ARTICLE VII |
| RESIGNATION, REMOVAL, OR REPLACEMENT OF OFFICERS, OR DELEGATION OF DUTY |
Section 7.01. Removal
Section 7.02. Delegation of Responsibility
Section 7.03. Resignation
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| ARTICLE VI |
| APPOINTED OFFICERS |
Section 6.01. Appointing Officers
Section 6.02. Executive Director
Section 6.03. Journal Editor
Section 6.04. Newsletter Editor
Section 6.05. Webmaster
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| ARTICLE V |
| ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION |
Section 5.01. Elected Officers
Section 5.02. Election of Vice President
Section 5.03. Succession to President
Section 5.04. Succession to Immediate Past President
Section 5.05. Duties of Elected Officers
Section 5.06. Implementation: First election under By-Laws revision of 1996
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| ARTICLE IV |
| BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
Section 4.01. General Duties
Section 4.02. Number of Directors
Section 4.03. Election
Section 4.04. Regular Meeting
Section 4.05. Special Meeting
Section 4.06. Notice of Special Meetings
Section 4.07. Quorum
Section 4.08. Steering Committee of The Board of Directors
Section 4.09. Resignation
Section 4.10. Ex-Officio Representation
Section 4.11. Actions of the Board
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| ARTICLE III |
| MEETINGS OF MEMBERS |
Section 3.01. Annual Meeting
Section 3.02. Special Meeting
Section 3.03. Place and Time of Meetings
Section 3.04. Notice of Meetings
Section 3.05. Quorum
Section 3.06. Organization
Section 3.07. Voting
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| ARTICLE II |
| MEMBERSHIP |
Section 2.01. Members
Section 2.02. Classes of Membership
Section 2.03. Dues
Section 2.04. Voting Members
Section 2.05 Termination and Restoration of Membership
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| ARTICLE I |
| NAME AND PURPOSE |
Section 1.01. Name
Section 1.02. Purpose
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Obituary on the passing of Professor Tsung Chin (University of Maryland), published in JCLTA (May 2006) 41.2:iv-vi.
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Chinese Language Teachers Association Board of Directors, I wish to express our deepest condolences at the passing of Professor Tsung Chin, our esteemed colleague from the University of Maryland. As an Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics in the Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures since 1969, Professor Chin was a member of our Association for nearly forty years. Only a handful of our Association membership can lay claim to having been a member of our Association for as long a period of time. In the years that he taught Chinese language and linguistics at UCLA, USC, Yale, Georgetown and Maryland, Professor Chin incessantly endeavored by both word and action to promote the cause of Chinese language instruction.
Professor Chin was a tireless advocate of excellence in Chinese language education. The sheer joy that Professor Chin derived and propagated in working toward this goal with his fellow Chinese instructor colleagues was never more apparent than when he received our Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award – named for his University of Maryland colleague Ronald Walton – as seen in the photo that we are proud to have grace the home page of our website. All of us well remember our delight at encountering Professor Chin at our annual meeting, when his clear-eyed vigorous handshake and firm embrace left no doubt in anyone’s mind the sincere genuineness of this man and his joy at advancing common goals in concert with his professional peers.
But of course, we all know that the enormity of Professor Chin’s contribution to our field is only truly grasped when we pause to appreciate his lifelong work dedicated to promoting the teaching and study of Chinese calligraphy. The Chinese calligraphy course started by Professor Chin at the University of Maryland in the early 1980s became one of the most popular courses in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Professor Chin’s founding and stewardship of the Calligraphy Education Group sponsored by our Association was a monumental labor of love, dedicated to promoting the understanding of Chinese culture and language through calligraphy. There was an overwhelming interest in Professor Chin’s work as carried out in the Calligraphy Education Group, from participants in special sessions over the years at our annual meetings, to the attendees of several international conferences that he sponsored, to the endless accolades heaped upon him by admirers of his work. The calligraphy exhibitions and demonstrations Professor Chin organized drew literally crowds of observers at our annual meeting – they were easily one of the biggest draws of the conference. Himself an expert practitioner in the art that he loved and so assiduously promoted, when placing brush to parchment Professor Chin displayed a certainty of stroke yet deftness of touch that was the marvel of the other masters present.
We seek to continue Professor Chin’s lifelong work in the promotion of Chinese language instruction, and will strive to continue his dream to have the study and mastery of Chinese calligraphy be appreciated around the globe. Of course, we in the Association will work to continue Professor Chin’s invaluable efforts in this area, but in no sense can we even begin to replicate Professor Chin’s individual contributions. While it is difficult for us to imagine how any individual could match Professor Chin’s exuberance in promoting Chinese calligraphy as an important part of Chinese language and culture, we will nonetheless rely on our fond memories of Professor Chin’s enduring strength to sustain our collective energies as we strive to carry on the important work that Professor Chin so tirelessly performed on behalf of our Chinese language teaching field.
With Sincerity, for the Chinese Language Teachers Association Board of Directors,
Jerome L. Packard
University of Illinois
April 16, 2006
The CLTA Board, at its meeting on 11/19/2015 at San Diego, decided to suspend the Walton Lifetime Achievement Award and the Walton Presentation Award.
Dr. A. Ronald Walton (1943-1996), a long-time member of CLTA, was an internationally-recognized expert in the areas of language pedagogy, policy and planning for the less commonly taught languages in general and Chinese in particular. Ron helped found the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) in 1987, and served as its Deputy Director until his death. In that capacity, he served as either principal investigator or co-principal investigator for at least fifteen major grants shaping a new vision for language learning and teaching in America. Dr. Walton played a critical advisory role in the development of both the Generic and Chinese ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, the Chinese Proficiency Test and Pre-Chinese Proficiency Test, and the NFLC Guide for Basic Chinese Language Programs. His 20 years of Chinese language teaching experience included prominent positions with the FALCON intensive language program at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland.
While Ron was clearly one of the preeminent members of the Chinese language teaching profession at the college level, he was particularly willing to give his time, counsel and support to those just beginning their careers as Chinese language educators, as well as those teaching in settings other than the college level. It thus seems appropriate that the best way to honor Ron is through two annual awards that might serve both to recognize long-term contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy, and to provide financial support for those who might not otherwise be able to attend the CLTA annual meeting.
[ CLTA Walton Award – Walton Presentation Prize ]
Call for Nominations:
The CLTA Walton Lifetime Achievement Award, founded in 1998 by friends and colleagues of Ronald Walton, and funded in 2005 by a perpetual endowment from the Cheng & Tsui Company in honor of Ronald Walton’s (1943-1996) lifetime dedication to Chinese language education and cross-cultural understanding, is given for overall contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy. All members in the community of Chinese language teaching and research, with the exception of current CLTA officers and members of the Board of Directors, are eligible for the award. The Walton Award consists of a plaque presented at the CLTA Annual Meeting.
To nominate a candidate for the Walton Award, please submit: 1) a letter of nomination (in either English or Chinese) describing the candidate’s scholarship, service, leadership, and innovative contributions in the field of Chinese language teaching, 2) a current Curriculum Vitae of the nominated candidate, and 3) two letters of support (in either English or Chinese) from other CLTA members addressing the candidate’s accomplishments in the categories mentioned in (1).
| 1998: | John DeFrancis, Emeritus Professor of Chinese at the University of Hawaii, was awarded (in absentia) the inaugural CLTA Walton Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy, on November 21, at the 1998 CLTA General Membership Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. John DeFrancis (1911-2009) Online Memorial. |
| 1999: | Professor Shou-hsin Teng, Director of the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University, and Editor of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association from 1995 to 2002. |
| 2000: | Dr. Madeline Chu, Program Director and Chair of the Chinese Program at Kalamazoo College, and CLTA Executive Director from 1992 to 2000. |
| 2001: | Dr. John Young, Honorary Member (CLTA Board of Directors), Seton Hall University, former Secretary-Treasurer of CLTA, and one of the founding members of CLTA. |
| 2002: | Professor George Chao (University of Chicago), Professor Chauncey Chu (University of Florida), and Ms. Chih-Ping Chang Sobelman (Columbia University). Professors G. Chao and C. Chu are retiring at the end of the academic year, after many decades of teaching and contributions to the field. In November 2002, our CLTA Walton Award recipients were each presented a plaque at the CLTA banquet, where they had been invited to be guests at the 2002 CLTA Banquet and Roundtable Discussion, celebrating CLTA’s 40th anniversary (that is, the end of 40 years since the establishment of the Association in 1962). A lively roundtable discussion, moderated by CLTA President, Prof. Claudia Ross, centered on the theme of “CLTA past, present and future.” |
| 2003: | Professor Yuehua Liu (Harvard University) has been a long-time member of the Chinese language teaching profession. She is author of numerous articles and books, and is one of the prime movers in producing the successful Integrated Chinese series. |
| 2004: | Professor Te-ming Yeh (National Taiwan Normal University) and John Montanaro (Far Eastern Publications), who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. |
| 2005: | Professor Tsung Chin (University of Maryland) was recognized for his long-term dedication and contributions to both calligraphy education and Chinese language teaching. Over the past 20 years he has been a dedicated promoter of calligraphy education as an important component of the teaching of the Chinese language. Professor Chin passed away at the age of 80 on 8 April 2006. To express the CLTA Board of Directors’ deepest condolences on the loss of our long-time colleague, an open letter written by Professor Jerome Packard on the Board’s behalf is published in the May 2006 issue of our Journal. |
| 2006: | Professor Jing-heng Ma (Dept. of E. Asian Langs. and Lits., Wellesley College) was recognized for her myriad of contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics. She has been a prolific contributor in all aspects of the field, teaching all levels of Chinese language, developing teaching materials (both texts and computer-assisted materials), researching in both pedagogy and linguistics and training teachers. |
| 2007: | Professor Vivian Ling (Oberlin College), for her outstanding lifetime achievement in Chinese teaching. The Awards Committee recognizes Ling as a gifted and extraordinarily dedicated teacher, scholar, and program administrator in the field of Chinese teaching. Ling started her Chinese teaching career in early 1970s. Her teaching skills are recognized as a model to the profession. Ling has been an important mentor of new generations of Chinese teachers in a good few Chinese programs in U. S. and study-abroad programs in Mainland China and Taiwan. Additionally, Ling is the author or co-author of more than a dozen Chinese textbooks, two dictionaries and thirty some articles. She also served as Editor of the JCLTA for four years and maintained its high standards in scholarship. |
| 2008: | Professor Ying-che Li (University of Hawaii). With an outstanding professional career of over four decades, Ying-che Li has made a tremendous impact on the profession of Chinese teaching and research. His influential contributions include seven books (authored or co-authored) and more than sixty articles on a wide range of topics in Chinese linguistics and pedagogy, training of Chinese teachers of several generations, and numerous services on boards of directors of national and international organizations of the profession and as a consultant to educational administration offices of several governments in South-East Asia. |
| 2009: | Professor Timothy Light (Western Michigan University). Professor Timothy Light was a key player in establishing and developing a highly professional system of Chinese language instruction in America and beyond from the 1970s to the 1990s. His pioneering and widely influential works include introducing modern language pedagogy to the field of Chinese language instruction, training a group of prominent Chinese language teachers and scholars as well as a crop of top-notch leaders in the Chinese teaching field, publishing numerous books and articles on Chinese pedagogy and Chinese linguistics, serving as the editor of CLTA journal and as the president or a member on the board of CLTA, and building a close tie between Chinese language educators in the USA and China. In addition, Light personifies himself as a renaissance man by making many scholarly contributions in the areas of Chinese history and philosophy, religion, English as a second language, and language education in general. |
| 2010: | Dr. Ted Yao (Yao Tao-chung) 姚道中 (University of Hawaii).Tao-chung “Ted” Yao, our recipient of the 2010 Cheng and Tsui Walton Lifetime Achievement Award, has been in the Chinese teaching profession for virtually all of his adult career. Professor Yao has been teaching at the University of Hawaii for over 20 years, and has assumed responsibility for curriculum planning, teacher training as well as mentoring of several generations of students. Professor Yao’s own research focus has been in computer assisted language learning software, and he developed the CATRC (Computer Adapted Test for Reading Chinese), a project funded by the United States Department of Education. He is also the co-author of the popular Cheng & Tsui Chinese textbook series, Integrated Chinese (中文听说读写). In addition to this work, Professor Yao has also written extensively on the history of Quanzhen Taoism. |
| 2011: | Professor Mike Everson performed six years of notable service with NCOLCTL (and is also the recipient of that organization’s Walton Lifetime Achievement award two years ago!), four years on the CLTA Executive Board, and five years as the Review Editor for the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Professor Everson has spent much effort in organizing CLTA Empirical Research Workshops, and editing the CLTA monograph entitled Research Among Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language and, perhaps most notably, co-editing Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Theories and Applications, which is a highly popular text among K-16 teachers of Chinese. His dedication to second language learning has also been evidenced in his work as principal developer of the useful online program “Read Chinese.” |
| 2012: | Over the course of three decades, Professor Walker has been the pioneer in the field of Chinese pedagogy and his influence on this profession is far reaching and deep (Bourgerie). His contributions include the creation of one of the best Chinese language teaching programs in the United States, the growth of K-12 Chinese language teaching, and the original model of the Chinese Flagship Program (Chiang). In his professional career, he has worked with virtually every key language education association in the US and has served on numerous boards of professional associations, including the CLTA board. Dr. Walker’s scholarship, service and teaching in CFL has significantly impacted the next generations of language educators in the betterment of this profession. Accepting the Cheng & Tsui CLTA Walton Award – Galal Walker |
| 2013: | Dr. Qinghai Chen of the University of Michigan is recognized for his outstanding contribution to the field of teaching Chinese as a second language. He has served as the Director of the Chinese Language Program at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2010. Over the past two decades, Dr. Chen has been a key figure responsible for building the Business Chinese language teaching community in the U.S. As one of the guiding lights in the field of business Chinese, he has chaired four Business Chinese Workshops sponsored by CIBE (Center for International Business Education) of the University of Michigan. Dr. Chen’s pedagogically-oriented research has set a clear direction for many instructors interested in developing business Chinese courses. |
| 2014: | Professor Xie Tianwei has been an inspirational pioneer in applying computer technologies to the teaching of Chinese language. The website Professor Xie created in 1997, Learning Chinese Online, <http://learningchineseonline.net/>, has been one of the richest sources available of Chinese language teaching and learning materials and information.Apart from his teaching and administrative duties at his own university, Professor Xie has devoted himself to the service of the field of Chinese language teaching. Among the many important positions he assumed in professional organizations in our field, what is most remarkable is his ten years of service as the editor of the CLTA Newsletter, from 2003 to 2013. During his tenure, the Newsletter successfully underwent the transition from its version in paper to its e-version online. Through his dedicated efforts, the CLTA Newsletter never failed to reach out to CLTA members and to keep them informed. |
[ CLTA Walton Award – Walton Presentation Prize ]
(Please note that we do not accept applications for the Walton Presentation Prize in 2016. Those who wish to apply for a presentation award can apply to the Tao-chung Ted Yao Memorial Award or ChinaSprout Presentation Award, if applicable.)
The CLTA Walton Presentation Prize, founded by friends and colleagues in 1998, was funded in 2005 by a perpetual endowment from the Cheng & Tsui Company in honor of Ronald Walton’s lifetime dedication to Chinese language education and cross-cultural understanding. This Prize is given to recognize the best first-time presentation at the CLTA Annual Meeting. Preference is given to teachers at the pre-college level and graduate students who have their paper proposals accepted for the annual meeting. The CLTA Walton Presentation Prize carries an award of $250, and an invitation to submit a manuscript based on the presentation, to be considered for publication in the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.
| 1998: | Miao-fen Tseng, University of Illinois at Urbana, presented an excellent paper titled “Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese: Implications for Teaching,” and was chosen to be the first awardee at the 1998 CLTA General Membership Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1999: | Yi Lin, University of Iowa. Presentation: “Vocabulary Acquisition in CFL Learning.” |
| 2000: | (no recipient) |
| 2001: | Co-recipients: 1. Jun Yang, University of Arizona. Presentation: “The Categorization of the Particle ‘le’ and its Implications for Pedagogy.” 2. Song Jiang, University of Hawaii. Presentation: “Chinese Word Associations for English Speaking Learners.” |
| 2002: | Jeffrey Hayden, University of Hawaii. Presentation: “Shocking Our Students to the Next Level: Language Loss and Some Implications of National Standards.” |
| 2003: | Jing Liang, Carnegie Mellon University. Presentation: “Markovian Decision Process: Examining the Effects of Culture-Oriented Instructional Materials.” |
| 2004: | Alice Lee, National Taiwan Normal University. Presentation: “A Study of the Relationship between Side Sequence and Student Interaction: The Function of Triggers and Indicators.” |
| 2005: | Ling Wang, University of Minnesota. Presentation: “The Impact of Multimedia on Students’ Recognition of Chinese Characters: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study.” |
| 2006: | Yifang Zhang, University of Oregon. Presentation: “Analysis of Chinese L2 Learner Interlanguage Development in Written Discourse.” |
| 2007: | Co-recipients: 1. Jiajia Wang, University of Pennsylvania. Presentation: “Enhancing Current CFL Teacher Preparation Process Through Beginning Teachers’ Perspectives.” 2. Chunsheng Yang, The Ohio State University. Presentation: “Attitudes and Motivations of Chinese Heritage Learners and Non-Heritage Learners.” |
| 2008: | Hang Zhang, University of North Carolina. Presentation: “A Phonological Study of Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones.” |
| 2009: | Yi-Tzu Huang,University of Iowa Presentation: “Chinese heritage learners’ interactive patterns in collaborative discussion.” |
| 2010: | Co-recipients: 1. Wenhao Diao 刁文豪, Carnegie Mellon University. Presentation: “Language Use and Oral Fluency in the Study Abroad Context” 2. Zhengwei Qiao 乔政蔚, University of Iowa. Presentation: “Implicit and Explicit Corrective Feedback in Task-Based Interaction” |
| 2011: | Chen-huei Wu. University of Illinois. Presentation: “Second Language Fluency and Foreign Accent in Learning Chinese” |
| 2012: | Co-recipients: 1. Yupong Kou, University of Iowa. Presentation: “Discourse Complexity in Advanced-Level Chinese: Comparing Two Learning Backgrounds ” 2. Yu Li, University of Iowa. Presentation: “How contextual information and cultural familiarity affect Chinese colloquial idioms comprehension” |
| 2013: | Nian Liu, University of Oklahoma. Presentation: “ The Role of Orthography in Chinese Speakers’ Mental Lexicon” |
| 2014: | Yu Wu, Boston University. Presentation: “Differential Effects of Corrective Feedback on Wh-questions and Classifiers” |
| 2015: | Yu, Qiaona. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Presentation “Defining and validating measures of Chinese syntactic complexity.” |
[ CLTA Walton Award – Walton Presentation Prize ]
You are welcome to make a monetary donation to CLTA for the CLTA Walton Lifetime Achievement Award or the CLTA Walton Presentation Prize Fund. Your donation is tax deductible. You can either make your donation online at https://www.clta-us.org/clta-
The Chinese Language Teachers Association invites proposals for the Jiede (all-attain) Empirical Research Grant, established in 2003 by an anonymous member, and enhanced thereafter by the original donor and other donors. The grant of $2,000 will support empirical research in Chinese pedagogy and applied linguistics that contributes to building a sound understanding of teaching and learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL). The recipient will be expected to present a paper at the annual meeting of the CLTA or to submit a progress report at the end of the grant term.
Except for university/college tenured associate and full professors, applications from all teaching professions including assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, K-12 teachers, heritage school teachers, independent researchers, and graduate students in registered M.A. or Ph.D. programs who are current CLTA members (active membership from grant application to research presentation) and conduct empirical research in the Chinese language are welcome to apply. The recipient should have no other grant support for the same project.
Submit the following materials electronically to the CLTA Award committee at cltaaward@gmail.com, with the subject line of “2024 Jiede Application” by the due date (September 30, 2024).
Proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2024. Applicants will be notified of results by December 1, 2024. Please follow the timeline indicated in this document for the 2024 Jiede Award cycle.
| 2003: | Helen Shen (University of Iowa) Research Title: “Linguistic Complexity and Reading Comprehension Among CFL Beginning Learners.” |
| 2004: | Meng Yeh (Rice University) Research Title: “Exploring Chinatown: Integrating Language, Culture and Community.” |
| 2005: | Miao-fen Tseng (The University of Virginia) Research Title: “The Attrition of Production and Reception Skills in Mandarin Chinese.” |
| 2006: | Chan Lu (Carnegie Mellon University) Research Title: “The Properties of Textbook Characters and its Influence on Character Learning for Learners of Chinese as a Second Language” |
| 2007: | Sun-A Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Research Title: “Developmental Stages in Reading Chinese Characters as a Second Language” |
| 2008: | 1. Chang Pu (University of Texas, San Antonio) Research Title: “Chinese American Children’s Bilingual and Biliteracy Practice and Development in Heritage Language and Public Schools”2. Dongbo Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) Research Title: “Teacher Questioning in Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Classrooms: A Sociocultural Approach” |
| 2009: | 1. Shu-Ling Wu (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) Research Title: “Learning to Express Motion Events in L2 Chinese”2. Yang Chunsheng (The Ohio State University) Research Title: “The acquisition of Mandarin prosody by American CFL Learners” |
| 2010: | 1. Chen-huei WU 吳貞慧 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Research Title: “A Corpus Study of Native and Non-native Accented Speech: Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language”2. Li YANG 杨黎 (The University of Iowa) Research Title: “Pragmatic and Grammatical Awareness in CSL and CFL Contexts” |
| 2011: | Yi Xu (University of Pittsburgh) Research Title: “Instructional Instrument to Develop the Reading Ability in Chinese” |
| 2013: | Yingling Bao (Indiana University, Bloomington) and Wenhao Diao (Carnegie Mellon University) Research Title: “Writing to Build Shi: Chinese Learners’ Rhetoric Structure as Cultural Praxis” |
| 2014: | Yun Yao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Research Title: “Chinese Character Recognition in Native and Second Language Learners” |
| 2015: | Haomin Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) Research Title: “Lexical Inference Ability in Chinese as a Heritage Language Learners” |
| 2016: | Eric A. Pelzl (University of Maryland) Research Title: “Native Chinese Listeners’ Comprehension and Processing of Foreign-Accented Mandarin Speech” |
| 2017: | Tianyu Qin (秦天玉) (Carnegie Mellon University) Research Title: “Dynamic Assessment of L2 Chinese Implicature Comprehension” |
| 2018: | Hang Zheng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Research Title: “Processing strategies in NSs and NNSs’ reading of Chinese formulaic sequences: What can think-aloud protocols tell us?” |
| 2019: | Zhiying Qian (Florida State University) Research Title: Research title: “The effect of musical pitch training on second language acquisition of Mandarin lexical tones”. |
| 2020-21: | Zhou, Jieyu (University of Washington) Research Title: Research title: “Improving Elementary-Level Chinese Learners’ Narrative Skill and Language Cohesiveness through Explicit Instruction and Practice on Topic Chain – A pedagogical Intervention”Jun Lang (University of Oregon) Research title: “Bridging linguistic theories, corpus research, and pedagogical practices: the teaching and learning of the notoriously challenging ba construction and shi…de construction” |
| 2022: | Matthew D. Coss (Michigan State University, George Washington University) “A Multi-Site Mixed-Methods Investigation into the Impact of Writing Modality on CFL Assessment Performance and Writing Processes” |
| 2022-23: | Kaidi Chen (Columbia University/University of Connecticut) “Effects of acoustic and semantic contextual cues on Mandarin spoken word recognition by English-speaking American learners of Mandarin” |
| 2023-34: | Xiaolong Lu, University of Arizona |
Speech delivered by Cheng & Tsui President Jill Cheng 17 November 2000
The following speech was delivered by Cheng & Tsui President Jill Cheng at the 2000 CLTA General Membership Meeting on 17 November 2000. The meeting was chaired by 2000 CLTA President Chuanren Ke.
Thank you very much for your kind introduction, Ke Laoshi. Good evening.
When I originally spoke with Ke Laoshi about awarding some grants, I had expected that he would simply announce a Cheng & Tsui gift at today’s CLTA meeting. But when he asked me to come and say a few words, I frankly panicked. The idea of speaking proper Chinese in front of Chinese-language teachers was simply too intimidating for me. When he reassured me that I can speak in English, I was relieved! I have to confess that I fall into your “heritage learner” category. Although I was born in China, I grew up in Japan and was not fortunate enough to have wonderful teachers like you all are to help me speak Chinese properly. This is one of the reasons I’m such a strong believer in the importane of well-trained teachers and effective language teaching materials. There are, of course, less personal reasons for me to appreciate the extreme importance of language teaching. Without language teachers like you, people of different nations would have more difficulty to communicate and understand one another, and the world would be a less inhabitable place because of it.
When Cheng & Tsui started years ago, the number of universities in the U.S. offering Chinese language courses was still modest. It has been quite a long and hard road for the pioneers in Chinese language teaching to get this field firmly established in the American educational world. I certainly can relate to those struggles, as I began Cheng & Tsui with a few hundred dollars of my hard-earned savings plus a loan of another few hundred dollars from my brother. But it’s been very satisfying and meaningful, because, in the process, I have witnessed the increasingly sophisticated development of the Chinese language field. Without the commitment of all you teachers, such dramatic improvements would not have happened.
Today, therefore, I would like to honor, in a small way, your dedication to Chinese language studies. After consulting with the C&T Editorial Board-Chief Editor Teng Shou-hsin, Dana Bourgerie, Samuel Cheung, Li Ying-che, and Timothy Light-and, of course, Madeline Chu, Executive Director of CLTA, we have decided to provide $1000 annually to fund professional development grants for teachers of the Chinese language.
Teachers of Chinese at all levels-K-12 as well as higher education-are eligible to apply for support from Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Fund to help defray the costs of teacher training workshops. Teachers are urged to leverage additional funding from their schools or other sources to enable them to participate in professional development activities. We have asked the CLTA Grants Committee to disburse the funds each year to a minimum of two teachers. We hope that these grants will be helpful in increasing the pool of excellent teachers for the Chinese language field.
And, finally, I want to thank all of you teachers very much for supporting Cheng & Tsui Company over the years, both as our authors and as our users. We cannot do it without you.
Call for Applications:
(Deadline: November 30, 2024)
The Chinese Language Teachers Association invites proposals for the Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award (hereafter “PD award”) for Teachers of Chinese, which is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers of Chinese, especially teachers new to the field. The award is given to support the attendance of pre-collegiate (including heritage school) 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. Teacher training workshops and seminars attended by the applicant should be focused on Chinese pedagogy and issues of Chinese teaching and learning. Cheng & Tsui has designated an annual amount of $1,000 to be split among the recipients. The recipients will be expected to submit a summary report of their training experiences at the end of the grant term.
The applicant must be a member of CLTA-USA. To apply for the Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese, please submit:
(1) a one-page statement stating the purpose to which you would put the Award, the amount of subsidy requested, and a proposed budget. Remove any identifying information, including your name and your institution in this statement.
(2) a current Curriculum Vitae.
(3) the completed award application form.
Submit the above documents to the CLTA Award Committee at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CLTA2025/ by November 30th, 2024. Identifying information will be removed prior to anonymous review. Recipients will be announced at the 2025 CLTA Conference Awards Ceremony. The name(s) of awardee(s) will also be reported in the CLTA Newsletter and on the CLTA web page.
2020-21 Cheng & Tsui Professional Development AwardYanrong Qi (University of Oklahoma)Wanching Hsieh (University of Pittsburgh)Ji Ma (Georgia State University)Cindy Y. Chung (National Taiwan Normal University)Ling Zhai (University at Buffalo)Chelsea Nakabayashi (Bard High School Early College)
| 2003: | Jin-huei Enya Dai (University of California, Santa Barbara) CLTA Paper Title: “Character-based Situational Instruction.” |
| 2004: | Peng Wang (Georgetown University) CLTA Paper Title: “Using Internet to Facilitate a Business Chinese Course.” |
| 2005: | Hsiao-Chi Su (Chinese American International School, San Francisco) Project: “Week-long workshop at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.”Yan Xie (Northfield Mt. Hermon High School, Massachusetts) CLTA Paper Title: “Establishing the Positive Attitude Toward Learning Chinese: Considering the Motivational Differences in Teaching Heritage and Non-heritage Students.” |
| 2006: | Jianling Liao (University of Iowa) CLTA Paper Title: “The Impacts of Synchronous Electronic Discussions on L2 Chinese Essay Writing.” |
| 2007: | Yongfang Zhang (The Ohio State University) CLTA Paper Title: “Written Chinese (shumianyu): A Sequential Approach to Build Learners’ Comprehension.”Chunxia Wang (University of California at Davis) CLTA Paper Title: “PowerPoint-Facilitated Classroom Chinese Language Teaching: Five Design Principles.” |
| 2008: | Yunghung Sandra Hsiao (Indian Trail Academy, Kenosha, WI.) Project/Purpose: “Attending a one-week workshop on Chinese pedagogy at Singapore American School, Singapore..”Ming Tang (Father Ryan High School, Nashville, TN.) Project/Purpose: “Attending the 2008 CLTA/ACTFL conference in Orlando, FL..” |
| 2009: | Yan Wang, (Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington, KY) Project/Purpose: Attending 2009 CLTA/ACTFL conference in San Diego and presenting a paper about a standard-based, proficiency focused Chinese K-3 curriculum.Caryn Rossi Louie (North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC) Project/Purpose: Attending the 2009 National Chinese Language Conference in Chicago for developing knowledge and skills in using interactive videoconferencing to teach Chinese across the state of North Carolina.Chen-hui Tsai (The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA) Project/Purpose: Attending 2009 CLTA/ACTFL conference in San Diego and presenting a paper entitled “CFL Teacher Technology Development: Practice and Challenges.” |
| 2010: | Shu-ling Wu 吳淑鈴 (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Project/Purpose: Support her presentation on L2 Chinese acquisition at the 1st Teachers College, Columbia University Round Table in Second Language Studies.Jia Yang 杨佳 (The Ohio State University) Project/Purpose: Attend the CLTA conference and 2 workshops at the conference. |
| 2011: | LIAO Haohsiang (Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Language Pedagogy at Ohio State University) – to attend the OPI Familiarization Workshop at ACTFL/CLTA in Denver.YE Lijuan (Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University) – to attend the ACTFL/CLTA Conference in Denver and to present her paper “Should We Delay Teaching Chinese Characters in US-based Chinese Programs?” |
| 2013: | Ying Feng, University of Mississippi – to cover the cost of transportation to attend Middlebury’s Chinese MA program and the fees for textbooks. Ying Liu, Ursinus College – to attend an OPI workshop at ACTFL and make a presentation at the CLTA annual conference in Orlando, Florida. |
| 2014: | Carl Polley, Lecturer in Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawai’i Kapi’olani Community College – to support attendance and presentation at the First CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning (CLTA-ISCLTL), October 25 and 26, 2014, at Indiana University in Bloomington. Ruihua Liu, Chinese teacher in the Houston Independent School District – to defray the cost of her participation in the STARTALK program at the University of Hawaii this summer. |
| 2015: | Qiaona Yu, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa – to support her first time attendance and research paper presentation at the ACTFL/CLTA Conference in San Diego, November 20-22, 2015. Qiuping Yuan, the Lake Shore High School, Michigan – to support her to attend a TPRS Workshop held in Detroit in September 2015. |
| 2016: | Xue Xia, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa – to support her paper presentation at the ACTFL/CLTA conference in Boston, November 18-20, 2016. Xizhen Qin, the University of South Florida – to fund for her ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview tester recertification. |
| 2017: | Donglin Chai （柴冬临）, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, to support her to attend the 2018 CLTA Annual Conference |
| 2018: | Qian Wang, The Ohio State University: proposed to use funding support for travels to CLTA Annual Meeting to present on “A new way to teach adjectives”; Sicheng Wang, University of Iowa: proposed to use funding support for travels to CLTA Annual Meeting to present on “Developing oral reading proficiency” |
| 2020-2021: | Yanrong Qi (University of Oklahoma); Wanching Hsieh (University of Pittsburgh); Ji Ma (Georgia State University); Cindy Y. Chung (National Taiwan Normal University); Ling Zhai (University at Buffalo); Chelsea Nakabayashi (Bard High School Early College) |
| 2021-2022: | Lini Polin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Purpose: Support her participation in the 2022 CLTA Annual Conference and the 2022 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting in San Diego.Bonnie Wang (Durham Academy Upper School) Purpose: Support her participation in the 2022 CLTA Annual Conference, the 2022 National Chinese language Conference, and the NCLCC Workshop: Chinese American Studies in Heritage and Non-Heritage.Yina Patterson (Indiana University- Bloomington) Purpose: Support her participation in the 2022 CLTA Annual Conference and the 2022 National Chinese Language Conference. |
| 2022-2023: | Jing Gao (Ankeny Centennial High School) Qiang Zhang (Harvard University) |
| 2023-2024: | Bing Mu, University of Rhode Island Fan Fan, University of Pittsburgh Jinhui Wu, Reed College Langhong Liu, Wake Forest iStem Magnet Elementary School, Boston University |
CLTA is pleased to announce the following awards open for competition:
| CLTA Awards | Due Time | Eligibility (All applicants must be a current CLTA-USA member) | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiede | September | All teaching professions including assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, K-12 teachers, heritage school teachers, independent researchers, and graduate students in registered M.A. or Ph.D. programs, except for university/college tenured associate and full professors | A research grant of $2,000 |
| Action Research Award | September | All teaching professionals, including college instructors, lecturers, K-12 teachers, community school teachers and graduate teaching assistants, except for university and college tenure-track and tenured faculty | An annual amount of $1,000 to be divided between 2 applications |
| YAO Award | November | All graduate students (either a doctoral or a master’s student) | Two to three recipients each receives a certificate and an award up to $850 to defray conference expenses |
| Shou-hsin Teng Prize | December | Junior faculty of Chinese in the U.S. and should have no more than five years of formal full-time teaching experience at a two-year or four-year college/university | One recipient (either an individual or collaborative effort) receives a certificate and a prize of $1200 |
| CLTA Awards | Due Time | Eligibility (All applicants must be a current CLTA-USA member) | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLCUP Teaching Award | November | All K-16 teaching professionals with active CLTA member status; except the current members of the CLTA Awards Committee | An annual amount of $1,500 to be divided between 2-3 recipients |
| Cheng & Tsui Professional Development | November | Support the attendance of pre-collegiate (including heritage school) 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; with a focus on Chinese pedagogy and issues of Chinese teaching and learning | An annual amount of $1,000 to be split among 3-4 recipients |
| BLCUP Award for K-12 Professional Development | January | A current CLTA member; A Chinese language teacher in elementary, middle, or high school, including public, private, charter, and weekend enrichment schools | A total amount up to $1,500 to support up to 6 awardees |
| CULTR Travel Grant | March | First-time CLTA conference attendees who are in year 1-5 of teaching; open to all K-12 and college-level teachers | An annual prize amount of $900 to be divided among 3 recipients |
Learn more about the CLTA Outstanding Contribution Award
Learn more about the CLTA Lifetime Achievement Award
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The CLTA Home Page was officially launched on 20 January 1998 by the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (Chinese name: 美國中文教師學會 / 美国中文教师学会). From its inception in December 1997 to July 2007, the CLTA website was generously hosted and supported by the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University. With the migration to the current web server during July 2007 completed, effective 1 August 2007, the official website for the Chinese Language Teachers Association will now be CLTA-US.ORG.
The President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association is elected by the CLTA membership, as per the CLTA Bylaws: Article V. The CLTA member who is elected to that position serves as the CLTA Vice President in the first year, fulfills the role of CLTA President in the second year, and then serves as the Immediate Past President (IPP) in the third year. A message from the CLTA President to the membership — “From the President” — is published in each issue of the Chinese Language Teachers Association Newsletter. In the table below are links to messages from Presidents and Immediate Past Presidents (IPP) of the CLTA over the years, commencing with the December 1997 issue, marking the beginning of the regular publication of messages from the CLTA President.*
* In 2007, the CLTA Newsletter shifted its time of its annual, three-issue publication in December, March and September to a new publication schedule of January, May, and September. Prior to 2007, the December issue contained the first message from the new president to start the cycle, and the second and third messages appeared in the following year’s March and September issues respectively. The cycle began anew in that new December issue, with a message from the new President, but also a message from the Immediate Past President (IPP), summarizing events and activities of the Association during his/her term in office as CLTA President.
| YEAR | CLTA PRESIDENT | JANUARY (December) |
MAY (March) |
SEPTEMBER (September) |
JANUARY (December) (as IPP) |
| 2024 | Prof. Zhongqi Shi (Columbia University) |
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| 2023 | Prof. Xia Liang (Washington University in St. Louis) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2022 | Prof. Shuai Li (Georgia State University) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2021 | Prof. Yongping Zhu (University of Notre Dame) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2020 | Prof. Yi Xu (University of Pittsburgh) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2019 | Prof. Fangyuan Yuan (United States Naval Academy) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2018 | Prof. Baozhang He (College of the Holy Cross) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2017 | Prof. Chaofen Sun (Stanford University) |
— | — | — | — |
| 2016 | Prof. Helen Shen (University of Iowa) |
Dec. 2015 | — | — | — |
| 2015 | Prof. Chengzhi Chu (UC Davis) |
Dec. 2014 | — | — | Dec. 2015 |
| 2014 | Prof. Hongyin Tao (UCLA) |
Dec 2013 | — | — | Dec. 2014 |
| 2013 | Prof. Der-lin Chao (Hunter College) |
Jan. 2013 | — | — | — |
| 2012 | Prof. Janet Xing (Western Washington University) |
Jan. 2012 | — | — | — |
| 2011 | Prof. Chuanren Ke (University of Iowa) |
Jan. 2011 | — | — | — |
| 2010 | Prof. Claudia Ross (College of the Holy Cross) |
Dec. 2009 | — | — | Jan. 2011 |
| 2009 | Prof. Jerome Packard (University of Illinois) |
— | — | — | Dec. 2009 |
| 2008 | Prof. Yen-hui Audrey Li (U. of Southern California) |
Jan. 2008 | — | — | — |
| 2007 | Prof. Jennifer Liu (Indiana University) |
— | — | — | Jan. 2008 |
| 2006 | Dr. Mien-hwa Chiang (University of Pennsylvania) |
Dec. 2005 | — | Sept. 2006 | (on leave) |
| 2005 | Prof. Hong Gang Jin (Hamilton College) |
Dec. 2004 | — | Sept. 2005 | Dec. 2005 |
| 2004 | Prof. Jianhua Bai (Kenyon College) |
Dec. 2003 | — | — | Dec. 2004 |
| 2003 | Prof. Dana Scott Bourgerie (Brigham Young University) |
Dec. 2002 | — | — | — |
| 2002 | Prof. Claudia Ross (College of the Holy Cross) |
Dec. 2001 | Mar. 2002 | Sept. 2002 | Dec. 2002 |
| 2001 | Prof. Marjorie K.M. Chan (The Ohio State University) |
Dec. 2000 | Mar. 2001 | Sept. 2001 | Dec. 2001 |
| 2000 | Prof. Chuanren Ke (University of Iowa) |
Dec. 1999 | Mar. 2000 | Sept. 2000 | Dec. 2000 |
| 1999 | Prof. Cynthia Ning (University of Hawaii) |
Dec. 1998 | Mar. 1999 | Sept. 1999 | Dec. 1999 |
| 1998 | Prof. Scott G. McGinnis (University of Maryland) |
Dec. 1997 | — | — | Dec. 1998 |
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Cut-off dates for submission of all materials to be included in the Newsletter are December 15, April 15, and August 15. The extended deadline of Sep. 2023 issue is Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023. Please click and submit your entries here: CLTA Newsletter Submission Form (Sep. 2023 Issue).
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* Prior to 2007, the Newsletter was published in March, September, and December.
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