The Third International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
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Third International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
Over 100 international Chinese language experts, scholars and teachers gathered at The Third International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language held on 24 June 2017. This conference is organised by the Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL) and the Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages of the Faculty of Humanities at EdUHK. The School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong and Swarthmore College in the United States were the co-organisers of the conference. The launch of the International Journal of Chinese Language Education (IJCLE) was also announced in the conference.
Professor Si Chung Mou, Head of CHL, pointed out that it was the University’s wish to consolidate the knowledge exchange amongst global Chinese education experts and to explore the latest developments in Chinese language teaching through establishing such an international platform, which he believed would have a far-reaching impact.
In addition to the keynote speeches delivered by Professor Jin Hong-gang, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, and Professor Liu Lening from Columbia University, the conference also featured 17 sessions with 69 papers presented and over 100 participants in total. Experts and scholars from the United States, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Mainland China, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong also participated in the event.
