November 19-21, 1999

(Please note that all changes will be published in the Convention Update which is given out at the convention.)

Those who are interested in attending the workshop should register with Madeline Chu by send her a email message including name, institution, telephone number, topics of interest and particular questions. Participants will be limited to 12.

CLASS SCHEDULE:
Hour One--General Introduction; participants present own experiences/problems/success stories/questions.
Hour Two & Hour Three: Each Mentor will present the theoretic foundation, personal/professional experiences, and provide practical guidance to participants on the subject matter.
Hour Four: Examples of possible ways to adopt what has been learned to revise current practice: to solve certain problems, to enhance certain good approaches; further discussion and feedback.

5:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
"Incorporating National Standards in K-12 Chinese Classroom" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Yu-Lan Lin, Boston Public Schools, MA
Chih-wen Su, Amherst High School, MA: "Standard-Driven Model Lessons"
Carol Chen-Lin, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT: "Connecting Chinese Standards to Classroom"
Hal Nicholas, Lee County Schools, FL: "Challenge of Implementing National Standards"
DISCUSSANT: Lucy Lee, Livingston High School, NJ

6:30 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Chinese Teaching Materials Swapshop [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Carol Chen-Lin, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT

6:00-10:00 p.m.
CLTA Board of Directors Meeting [Amethyst Room]

Friday, November 19
9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
"Performance-Based Learning and Teaching: Using Drama Techniques, Video-Skits, and Simulated Authentic Video in the Classroom" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: H. Lin Domizio, Connecticut College, CT
Cynthia Ning, University of Hawaii, HI: "Classroom Uses of Simulated Authentic Video"
Hilda Tao, University of Michigan, MI: "Video Skits in Chinese and Students Activities"
Weina Zhao, Wellesley College, MA: "Skits Make Language Alive"
Shirley Lee, Chinese American International School, San Francisco, CA: "An Effective Model of Teaching     Chinese through Drama to Young Language Learners"
DISCUSSANT: John Berninghausen, Middlebury College, VT

9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
"The Acquisition of Chinese Word Order and Other Issues" [Obelisk B]
Xiaohong Wen, University of Houston, TX: "The Acquisition of Chinese Word Order: Instructional Effect on Students’ Learning"
Dana Scott Bourgerie, Brigham Young University, UT: "Vocabulary Attrition in Intermediate Mandarin   Learners"
Teh-ming Yeh, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan: "Chinese Reading Strategies: A Case     Study of CFL Students in Taiwan"
Shin Yong, Beloit College, WI: "The Emphatic Adverb Bing vs. The Negative Potential Form"

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
ACTFL General Assembly [Chantily Ball Room]

2:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
"Accuracy Versus Fluency" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Baozhang He, Harvard University, MA
Baozhang He, Harvard University, MA: "Fluency at What Expense? A Review of Some Newly Published Textbooks "
Chih-ping Chou, Princeton University, NJ: "Is Fluency without Accuracy Really Fluency?"
George Chao, University of Chicago, IL: "Zhongwen, Huawen, Guoyu, Hanyu, Putonghua: What common Features They Have?"

2:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
"Enhancing the Advanced Curriculum" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Jianhua Bai, Kenyon College, OH
Jianhua Bai, Kenyon College, OH: "The Spiraling Principle and the Advanced Curriculum"
Haiwen Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing: "Enlivening Advanced Chinese with Newspaper Readings"
Xiaoling Yin, CET Academic Program, Beijing: "Open, Radical, but Justified: CET Beijing Janterm Curriculum"

4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
"Testing in Heritage Classes" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Julian Wheatley, MIT
Julian Wheatley, MIT: "Classroom Testing: Conventions and Practices"
Nyan-ping Bi, MIT: "Classroom Testing Practice: Implications"
Tong Chen, MIT: "Testing Reading and Writing"

4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
"Advancing the Advanced: Some Solutions to the Gap between Intermediate and Advanced Levels" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Yanfang Tang, College of William & Mary, VA
Yanfang Tang, College of William & Mary, VA: "Crossing over the Gap: the Issues of Textbooks"
Dela Jiao, New York University, NY: "Where Is the Bridge to Cross over the Gap?"
Jing Wang, Ohio State University, OH: "Advancing the Advanced: Writing Portfolio and Other Techniques"DISCUSSANT: Chaofen Sun, Stanford University, CA

5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
CLTA General Membership Meeting [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Cynthia Ning, University of Hawaii, HI

5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
CLASS Executive Board Meeting [Primula]
CHAIR: Lucy Lee, Livingston High School, NJ

Saturday, November 20
8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
"A New Type of Course for the 21th Century: Technology Integrated Language Instruction" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Wenchao He, New York University, NY
Ping Xu, Baruch College, NY & Wenchao He, New York University, NY: "Application of Chinese Computing in Language Instruction: A New Type of Course"
Qinghai Chen, University of Michigan, MI: "Enabling Students to Apply Chinese on the Computer: A Step to Innovation"
H. Lin Domizio, Connecticut College, CT: "Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Teaching"
DISCUSSANT: Tianwei Xie, California State University, Long Beach, CA

8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
"A Prospectus on the Vertical Articulation of Pre-Collegiate and Collegiate Programs" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Richard Chi, University of Utah, UT
Songren Cui, University of Massachusetts, MA: "Developing Rubrics: A Critical Step in Articulation"
Theresa Hsu Chao, National Council of Association of Chinese Language Schools, CA: "Exploring Issues of Articulation: A Study of the Result of the Nationally Administered Chinese Language School Preparation SAT II Chinese Test"
Richard Chi, University of Utah, UT: "Informing the Articulation Effort: What the Seniors of the Chinese Language Schools Know and Can Do"
DISCUSSANT: Scott McGinnis, National Foreign Langugage Center, Washington, D.C.

10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
"Web and Multimedia in Teaching Chinese" [Obelisk A]
Wenchiu Tu, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA: "Chinese Orthography on the Web"
Jingheng Ma, Wellesley College, MA & Robert Smitheram, Middlebury College, VT: "How Can We Help Students to Write Chinese Characters?"
Shih-chang Hsin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan: "The Development of Situated Multimedia Courseware for Teaching Intermediate Chinese"

10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
"Chinese Character and Chinese Culture" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Frank Tang, New York University, NY
Frank Tang, New York University, NY: "Teaching Culture in a Foreign Language Classroom"
Wenchao He, New York University, NY: "Teaching Students to Understand Cultural Appropriateness in Language Use"
Hsueh-wu Yao, New York University, NY: "The Cultural Information in Chinese Characters"

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
CLASS General Membership Meeting [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Lucy Lee, Livingston High School, NJ

1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
"CALL Issues" [Obelisk A]
Shu-ning Sciban, University of Calgary, Canada: "What Can CALL Do in the Teaching and Learning of Beginner’s Chinese?"
Debao Xu, Hamilton College, NY: "Using Cognitive Learning Theory to Design Multimedia Materials for Beginning Chinese"
Honggang Jin, Hamilton College, NY: "A Multimedia Approach to Typological Awareness in Chinese Language Teaching"
Hongchu Fu, Smith College, MA: "Computer Programs for Chinese Language Teaching: Design, Development and Application"

1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
"New Research in Chinese as a Foreign Language" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Chuanren Ke, University of Iowa, IA
Chuanren Ke, University of Iowa, IA: "Acquisition Order of Chinese Sentence Patterns for CFL Learners"
Shou-hsin Teng, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan: "Acquisition and Pedagogy in Chinese as a Foreign Language"
Yi Lin, University of Iowa, IA: "Vocabulary Acquisition in CFL Learning"
DISCUSSANT: Michael Everson, University of Iowa, IA

4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
"Electrifying the Classroom: Chinese Language Software and Chinese Language Teaching" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Cecilia Chu, UC Berkeley, CA
Ying Yang, UC Berkeley, CA: "Computer Exercises for the First Year Level"
Qiao Chen, UC Berkeley, CA: "Chinese Character Study Guide"
Hsiao-jung Yu, UC Santa Barbara, CA: "CyberChinese- the Business Edition"
Cecilia Chu, UC Berkeley, CA: "A Discussion of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporating Web Technology in the Chinese Classroom"

4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
"A Call for the Reform in Advanced Chinese Instruction" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Songren Cui, University of Massachusetts, MA
Vivian Lin, IUP, Beijing: "Developing Vocabulary Self-Acquisition Skills at the Advanced Level"
Xia Liang, Washington University, St. Louis, MO: "On the Teaching of Long Sentences, Complex Sentences and Multi-Complex Sentences"Kai Li, Oberlin College, OH: "Teaching Discourse at the Advanced Level"
DISCUSSANT: Songren Cui, University of Massachusetts, MA

6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
"Factors in Facilitating the Acquisition of Chinese as a Foreign Language" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Jinghua Yin, University of Vermont, VT
Jinghua Yin, University of Vermont, VT: "Supplement the Formal Chinese Instruction to Enhance Chinese Acquisition"Meiqing Zhang, Brown University, RI: "The Instructor’s Role in Elementary Chinese Acquisition"
Fang Liu, University of Vermont, VT: "What Motivates Our Students to Learn the Chinese Language?"
DISCUSSANT: Kai Li, Oberlin College, OH

6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
"Issues in TA Development --Beyond Training" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Madeline Spring, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Matt Christensen, Brigham Young University, UT: "Putting the Chinese Classroom into Culture: Performance-Based TA Training"
Madeline Spring, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: "Bridging the Gap between Teacher Training and Curricular Needs"
Keith Kofford, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: "Cultivating Effective TAs"
DISCUSSANT: Chaofen Sun, Stanford University, CA

7:00 p.m.
CLTA Annual Dinner [Place to be announced]
CHAIR: Madeline Chu, Kalmazoo College, MI

Sunday, November 21
8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
"L2 Acquisition of Syntactic Constructions in Chinese" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Chun-yin Doris Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chun-yin Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan: "L2 Acquisition of Relativization in Chinese"
Hui-tzu Mandy Liao, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan & Chun-yin Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan: "Pro-Drop and Topic Constructions in Adult Second Language Acquisition of Chinese"
Hsin-yi Huang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan & Chun-yin Doris Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan: "Subjacency and ECP in L2 Chinese"
DISCUSSANT: Audrey Li, University of Southern California, CA

8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
"Issues on Teaching Classical Chinese" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Sue-mei Wu, Harvard University, MA
Sue-mei Wu, Harvard University, MA: "The Characteristics of Classical Chinese Language: Implications for and Applications to Teaching Classical Chinese"
Qiusha Ma, Oberlin College, OH: "Part of Speech and Word Order: Versatility of the Classical Chinese Words"
Minru Li, University of Auckland, New Zealand: "The Pedagogical Significance of Teaching Pianti Wen in the Classical Chinese Curriculum"
Joanne Chiang, Princeton University, NJ: "‘Qianjin’ yu ‘Guya’—Cong Shici de Jiaoxue Tan Wenyan Wen de Jiaocai"
DISCUSSANT: Gregory Chiang, Middlebury College, VT

10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
"SATII-Chinese in 1999: An Overview" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Tao-chung Yao, University of Hawaii, HI
Scott McGinnis, National Foreign Language Center, Washington, D.C.: "SATII-Chinese in 1999: An Overview"
Dali Tan, Landon School, Bethesda, MD: "An Update of the SATII-Chinese Test"
Chih-wen Su, Amherst High School, MA: "Tips for Preparing Students to Take the Test"
DISCUSSANT: Richard Chi, University of Utah, Ut and Lucy Lee, Livingston High School, NJ

10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
"Sociolinguistic Issues in Teaching Chinese" [Obelisk B]
Chia-ning Chu, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan: "Taiwan Xiaoyuan Xinci de Fazhan he dui Jiaoxue de Yingxiang"
Ying Du, American University, VA: "Lexical Borrowing in Written Chinese Across the Taiwan Straits in the 90s"
Miao-fen Tseng, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL: "Using ‘Cultural Assimilators’ in the CFL Classroom"

12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
"Content-Based Instruction: Implementation and Assessment" [Obelisk A]
CHAIR: Maiheng Shen Dietrich, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Maihen Shen Dietrich, University of Pennsylvania, PA: "Language Acquisition in Content-Based Classroom"
Xianmin Liu, Vanderbilt University, TN: "Teaching Grammar with Content"
Jianping Zhang, University of Pennsylvania, PA: "Peer Conference: An Effective Learning Tool"
DISCUSSANT: Theresa Chang-whei Jen, Bryn Mawr College, PA

12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
"Student Oral Proficiency Assessments (SOPAs) for Chinese K-3 Learners" [Obelisk B]
CHAIR: Scott McGinnis, National Foreign Language Center, Washington, D.C.
McGinnis, Scott, National Foreign Language Center, Washington, D.C.
Mimi Met, Montgomery County Public Schools, MD
Lucy Lee, Livingston High School, NJ