Friday, October 25
5:00-6:30 p.m.: Reception, USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room LM 100
6:30-8:00 p.m.: Opening Remarks & Keynote Address
Opening Remarks: President Stephen J. Privett, S.J., University of San Francisco; Dean Stanley Nel, College of Arts & Sciences, USF
Keynote Address: President Wang Jianpan, East China Normal University (ECNU)
Saturday, October 26
9:00-10:30 a.m. - Panel 1: The State of the Field of Chinese Language Teaching: Institutional and Government Support
YAN Meihua, Director-General, National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL)
Paper Title: TBA
JIANG Mingbao, Deputy Director-General, National Office for TCFL
Paper Title: TBA
ZHAO Guocheng, Director, Division of TCFL & Foreign specialists affairs Administration
Paper Title: TBA
HUANG Liping, Director, Division of International Exchange, ECNU
Paper Title: TBA
11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. - Panel 2: Challenges of Teaching in Multi-cultural and Cross-cultural Settings
CHEN Xiaofen, Deputy Chair, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: How to Organize the Teaching in a Foreign-Chinese Mixed Class
CHEN Rong, Deputy Dean, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: An Analysis of Cultural Differences of American Students in Learning Chinese
LIU Fang, Department of Chinese for Overseas, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: A Comparison of Teaching and Learning in China and Japan
SUN Chaofen, Stanford University
Paper Title: TBA
12:30-2:00 p.m. - Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m. - Panel 3: Electronic and Web-based Language Teaching
Patrick Lin, Defense Language Institute, Monterey
Paper Title: Task-Oriented Electronic Writing in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
XIE Tianwei, California State University, Long Beach
Paper Title: Issues of Long Distance Chinese Education in the U.S.
ZHANG Jianmin, Director, Center On-Line Chinese Teaching Center, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: The Internet Teaching of Chinese: Mode and Method
ZHANG Zhengsheng, California State University, San Diego
Paper Title: Using the Computer to Write Chinese characters
4:00-5:30 p.m. - Panel 4: Cultural Implications of Chinese Language Teaching
CHEN Qinjian, Chair, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: Cultural Anthropology and TCFL
XU Ziliang, Department of Chinese for Overseas, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: Analysis of Student Cognitive Tenets and Their Implications for Teaching Spoken Language
WANG Shouming, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: The Teaching of Chinese Culture in TCFL
Shuk Ying NG, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Paper Title: TBA
4:00-5:30 p.m. - Panel 5: Bilingual Education and Testing in California
Dr. Stella Kwoh, University of San Francisco
Paper Title: Testing & Standards for Chinese Language Programs in Secondary Schools
Andrew Corcoran, Chinese-American International School, SF
Paper Title: Bilingualism & Chinese Language Education in the US Context
7:00-9:30 p.m.: Conference Banquet, Fountain Court Restaurant
Sunday, October 27
9:00-10:30 a.m. - Panel 6: Pedagogical Issues in Phonetics and Semantics
Prof. YE Jun, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: A Syllabus for Teaching Chinese Phonetics
WANG Ju, Department of Chinese for Overseas, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: Ba- Sentences: Their Core and Peripheral Patterns and How to Teach Them
MAO Shizhen, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: Chinese Prosodic Features and Their Application in TCFL
LI Dong, School of Language Studies, Massey University, New Zealand
Paper Title: Teaching Chinese Sounds: a Contrastive Approach
9:00-10:30 a.m. - Panel 7: Translation and Historical Grammar
HU Mingliang, Foreign Language College, Shanxi Univeristy
Paper Title: Chinese Cohesion Devices and Chinese-English Translation
ZHENG Ji’e, Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
Paper Title: Verb-Object Structures in Antique Chinese in Oracle Bone Inscriptions
Grace Zhang, Auckland University
Paper Title: TBA
William Liu, Simon Fraser University
Paper Title: TBA
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Panel 8: Chinese Language Pedagogy in Multiple Contexts
PAN Wenguo, Executive Dean, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: Contrastive Study and TCFL
LI Wen-chao, San Francisco State University
Paper Title: Are there Multiple Forms of Standard Mandarin?
WU Yongyi, Deputy Dean, College of International Chinese Studies, ECNU
Paper Title: The Influence of Learning Strategy on the Learners for Studying Chinese as a Second Language
Qinghai Chen, Department of Asian Language and Cultures, University of Michigan
Paper Title: Language Teaching Methodologies
