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This event will be held during the CLTA membership meeting on April 9 (Sat), 2022, 7:30-8:30 (EST).

Invited Speaker 特邀演讲嘉宾: Professor Perry Link 林培瑞教授

Topic: 继母语万岁: 对外教学转为引内教学

(March 18, 2021)

ACTFL 2020 Schedule of Virtual Events

CLTA Sponsored Sessions

ACTFL Online Program (register at ACTFL website: https://actfl.org)

CLTA Events for September 2020

CLTA VIRTUAL FORUM (#2)

全美中文教師學會網上論壇     第二講
(全美中文教师学会网上论坛   第二讲)

TITLE: VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON CFL TEACHING IN THE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES

讲题: 新形势下的线上与线下中文教学

主持人: 梁霞

特邀讲者: 储诚志, 笪骏, 高瑛, 叶为兵

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm (EST), August 29 (Saturday), 2020

论坛召集人: 朱永平    致辞:许怡    CLTA介绍: 吴素美

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Virtual Forum via Zoom. Open and Free for CLTA Members. Seats are limited. Registration is required. To register:

1. Login with your CLTA Member info
2. Fill out the Virtual Forum registration form (you can also find the Virtual Forum registration form under the News tab at the top of the CLTA website)
3. You will receive email confirmation with Zoom link info. Keep this email. You will need this information to enter this CLTA Virtual Forum #2 event.
4. The event starts at 8 pm. Zoom will open at 7:45pm. The Zoom meeting can only admit up to 300 people, first come first served.

A Discussion on Chinese Pedagogical Grammar 汉语教学语法论坛 

8:00 – 9:30 pm (EST), July 11 (Saturday), 2020

Virtual Forum via Zoom. Open and Free for CLTA Members. Seats are limited. Registration is required (members must login to fill out the form).

 

The National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society is founded to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of college students in learning Chinese as a second language, to encourage them to continue to study Chinese after they graduate from college, and to promote the study of Chinese language, literature, and culture in the United States.

This year the National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society inducted 25 students. Congratulations to the Honor students and their faculty sponsors! For a full list, please visit

https://www.clta-us.org/the-national-collegiate-chinese-honor-society/2017-national-collegiate-chinese-honor-society/

 

Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese is now calling for applications. The award supports the attendance of pre-collegiate 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. The application deadline is October 31, 2017. For more information, please visit the CLTA Awards page.

CLTA’s Annual Membership Meeting was held in Boston, MA during the ACTFL’s Annual Conference on Saturday, November 19, 2016. The meeting kicked off with a reception – many thanks to the sponsors for the wonderful meal. CLTA’s President, Helen Shen, started the meeting with a warm welcome and expressed her appreciation for the membership’s support and for the support of CLTA’s Board of Directors.

The 2^nd CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning was held on April 1-3 at the University of Maryland, College Park. 300 people were in attendance, which included 2 keynote speeches and 2 plenary speeches with book exhibitions, 130 paper presentations, 10 workshops and 20 teaching demonstrations, and an information session.

As a result of the recent CLTA poll, a majority of the members voted to hold CLTA annual conferences independently. The tentative plan is for the conference to be held in April 2018 in Washington, D.C. Once more details are available, they will be disseminated to the CLTA membership.

The Steering Committee reported that it established 12 special interest groups and created the publication of the CLTA monograph in 2017.  Also, Professor Janet Xing of West Washington University was appointed to serve as the new JCSL Editor.

Afterwards, the Committee Chairs each took a minute to report to the CLTA membership the tasks and goals of each committee.

Congratulations to the following award winners:

• CLTA Jiede Award: Eric A. Pelzl, University of Maryland, College Park
• CLTA Action Research Award: Ruihua Liu, International Leadership of Texas
• Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant:  Xue Xia, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Xizhen Qin, University of South Florida
• CLTA Study Abroad Site Visit Award: Yun Yao, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• Tao-chung Ted Yao Memorial Award at CLTA-S2: Eric A. Pelzl, University of Maryland, College Park
• Tao-chung Ted Yao Memorial Award at ACTFL/CLTA: Liulin Zhang, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Haomin Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
• China Sprout Presentation Award: Qiuping Yuan, Lake Shore High School, MI
• Peking University Press Publication Award: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Xinjia Peng and Jing-Yun Chen

For this year’s ACTFL/CLTA Annual Conference, CLTA accepted 50 sessions and 58 papers. Effective January 1, 2017, there will be a membership rate increase across the board. Four new Board Members were elected to the CTLA Board, which include one K-12 teacher and three higher education teachers. CLTA now has 10 regional member associations. This year also marked the initiation of CLTA’s National Collegiate Chinese Honor Society. 31 candidates from 10 institutions were induced to the Society.

In closing, CLTA President Helen Shen acknowledged the outgoing Officers and Board Members: JCSL editor, 2 Officers and 4 Board Members. She then closed the meeting by welcoming the new 2017 Steering Committee, the 2017 Board of Directors, and the 2017 CLTA President Chaofen Sun.

(Written by Lisa Podbilski)

 

 

 

STARTALK has just published their list of programs for 2016.  Chinese language teachers in the U.S. may apply for a program of interest to them.  Here is the URL: https://startalk.umd.edu/public/find-a-summer-program/?f[0]=im_field_st_language%3A39&f[1]=im_field_program_participant_typ%3A183