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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Chinese Workshop

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Chinese Workshop

On Friday, December 1stUConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator from Chinese, Dr. George Yang met with certified ECE Chinese Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. Dr. Yang spoke to the group updates to the current CHIN 1114 course and plans for adding UConn’s CHIN 3210 and 3211 to UConn ECE’s course offerings in the near future. ECE Instructor Feng Xia from Amity High School discussed Chinese program development, and later the Instructors heard from Prof. Yu Wu, Associate Professor of Chinese from University of Rhode Island on Proficiency Oriented L2 Chinese:  Assessment: Objectives, Instruction, and Assessment.

     

UConn Chinese courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2022 UConn ECE Chinese Workshop

Fall 2022 UConn ECE Chinese Workshop

On Friday, December 9th , UConn Early College Experience and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Chinese Associate Professor of Chinese and Applied Linguistics, George Yang met with ECE Certified Chinese Instructors for their annual professional development meeting. After a short welcome with some general questions from the group and a discussion about recruitment of additional instructors, keynote speaker Dr. Phyllis Ni Zhang, Associate Professor of Chinese and International Affairs, George Washington University joined the meeting to share her research: "Optimizing the L2 Hanzi Instruction: The Facilitating Role of Typing in L2 Chinese".

UConn Chinese courses offered through Early College Experience.

2020 UConn ECE Chinese Workshop

UConn Early College Experience Chinese Workshop and NACCL-32

On Friday September 18th UConn Early College Experience and the UConn ECE Chinese faculty invited all certified UConn ECE Chinese Instructors to attend their annual professional development meeting via Zoom. This year's meeting was held in conjunction with the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics.

The theme of NACCL-32 is collaborativity and interdisciplinarity in Chinese linguistic studies.

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome remarks 

NACCL-32 Program Chair, Professor Chunsheng Yang

Dr. Juli Wade, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UConn

9:05 – 10:05 Keynote 1 – Professor James Huang, Harvard University

Chair: Professor Zeljko Boskovic

Title: More on Locality, Focus and Covert Movement 

10:15-11:15 Keynote  2 –  Professor Yi Xu, University College London 

Chair: Professor Jisheng Zhang

Title: Toward modeling-based linguistic research

11:20-12:20 Keynote 3 – Professor Nan Jiang, University of Maryland 

Chair: Professor Chunsheng Yang

Title: The stroke number effect in visual word recognition among CSL learners

The session was recorded and can be referenced here.

 

    UConn Chinese classes offered through UConn ECE.