Symposium on the Teaching of Chinese (Putonghua) to Native Speakers of English
Dates: July 17-21, 2000
Location: St Ann'e College, Oxford OX2 6HS UK
Sponsoring Organizations:
1. International Society for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign
Language
2. Institute for Chinese Studies, The University of Oxford
3. British Chinese Language Teaching Seminar
4. China Society for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Major Topics:
1. Difficulties encountered by English speakers when learning
Chinese (Putonghua) as a foreign language, and some solutions
2. teaching Chinese (Putonghua) as a foreign language in different English-speaking environments
3. Methods of teaching Chinese (Putonghua) to English-speaking adults and English-speaking schoolchildren
4. The teaching of Chinese (Putonghua) to English speakers in different Chinese-English environments
5. A comparison of the English and Chinese languages in relationship to the teaching of these languages and their cultural background.
For more information, please contact Prof. S-Y Kan at
kan@server.orient.ox.ac.uk