The Fifth International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
- 2020
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- Department of Chinese Language Studies
The opening ceremony of the Fifth International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.
The Department of Chinese Language Studies, as well as Princeton University, Swarthmore College, National Taiwan Normal University and The University of Hong Kong jointly organised the Fifth International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from 26 to 27 July 2019. This conference featured keynote speakers Professor Lu Jianming (Peking University, mainland China), Professor Yuan Boping (the University of Cambridge, UK), Professor Chou Chih-p'ing (Princeton University, USA), Professor Bel Lassen, Joël (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris) and Professor Chew Cheng Hai (the National University of Singapore), attracting over 170 experts and scholars from around the world. At the same time, the Department hosted the 2nd Advanced Workshop on IB Concepts and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL), addressing issues on theories and pedagogies of teaching Chinese as a second language and TCSL within the IB framework. More than 30 participants from the universities and institutions of Africa, Hong Kong, mainland China and UK took part in the workshop.
