8:00-8:30

Registration

8:30-8:45

Welcome remarks from Dr. Joan Stewart, President of Hamilton College; Dr. Margaret Riley, Director/Associate Dean for Study Abroad at Duke University

8:45-9:30

Keynote speaker(s):

Dr. Richard Brecht, Executive Director for the Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL) at the University of Maryland. Title of speech: "What's so Special about Language Learning in Study Abroad? An Overview from the Research Perspective"

Professor Lu, Jianming, President of International Society of Chinese Language Teaching. Title of speech: "Yao zhongshi duiwai hanyu jiaoxue zhong de shumianyu jiaoxue"

Learners' Belief and Motivation

Chair and Discussion Leader:

Cui Songren, Ye Jun

9:45-10:00

A Comparative Study of Instructors' and Learners' Beliefs about Instruction and Interaction in a Study Abroad Context (Jin, Honggang, Professor of Chinese, Hamilton College)

10:00-10:15

American Students' Perspectives on Chinese Teaching Standards*(Zhao, Michael and Haiying Zhang, Chinese Language Teacher, Institute for the International Education of Students)

10:15-10:30

Learner Differences: Communication in Chinese in the
Study Abroad Context (Zhang, Yin, Acting Field Director (on leave), Associated Colleges in China)

10:30-10:45

Enforcing the Language Pledge: A Mission Possible? (Mu, Judy Z., Chinese Language Coordinator, Study Abroad Advisor, Washington University in St. Louis)

Curriculum Development

Chair and Discussion Leader:

Li Xiaoqi, Judy Mu

10:45-11:00

An Interdisciplinary Short-Term Study-Abroad Program in China (Chen, Yea-Fen, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

11:00-11:15

A Little Study, A Little Fun-- A Short-term Chinese Study Abroad Program Design in Practice* (Fang, Shu-hua, Assistant Research Fellow, Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University)

11:15-11:30

Teaching and Learning Behavioral Culture in Study Abroad Context (Tang, Yanfang, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary)

Grammar Instruction

Chair and Discussion Leader:

Wu Weiping  

11:30-11:45

Teaching Grammar in the Study Abroad Context--Introduce Four Teaching Methods (Liu, Xianmin, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University)

11:45-12:00

Teaching Xuci at Study Abroad Programs in China (Sung, Kuo-ming, Associate Professor, Lawrence University)

12:00-12:15

Discussion

Cui Songren, Li Xiaoqi, Judy Mu, Wu Weiping, Ye Jun

12:15-1:15

Lunch

Pedagogy

Chair and Discussion Leader:

Chen Yea-Fen, Sung Kuo-ming, Ye Rong  

1:15-1:30

Are Drills Really Out? (Cui, Songren, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College)

1:30-1:45

Pre-class Homework that Promotes Teacher/Student Interaction in the Classroom and Evaluations that Test Students' Overall Understanding of Course Content (Liang, Hsin-hsin, Assistant Professor of Chinese, The University of Virginia)

1:45-2:00

"Muyu huanjing hanyu jiaoxuezhong kuawenhua tiyan juti caozuo de jidian tantao" (Hua, Kuoman and Liao, Qingrui, Lecturer, the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP) at Tsinghua University in Beijing)

2:00-2:15

Teaching Writing in Small Groups (Ye, Jun, Associate Professor, East China Normal University)

2:15-2:30

Working Smart: Maximizing Mileage from Student Effort with Computer Learning Tools (Ling, Vivian, NEH Professor, Colgate University)  

2:30-2:45

Establishing a Connection between the Language and Real Life* (Li, Qijie, Lecturer, Duke Study in China Program and the Department of Chinese as Foreign Language in Beijing Capital Normal University)

2:45-3:00

On the Teaching of Chinese Vocabulary to Second Language Learners in View of Psycholinguistics (Liu, Fang, Chinese Lecturer, CET Academic Programs)

3:00-3:15

Duiwai hanyu jiaocai bianxie lilun yu shijian (Li, Xiaoqi, Professor, Beijing University)

3:15-3:30

Discussion

Chen Yea-Fen, Sung Kuo-ming, Ye Rong

Teacher Development

Chair and Discussion Leader:

John Thomson

3:30-3:45

Conducting Chinese Language Teaching Evaluations in the Study Abroad Context (Kubler, Cornelius C., Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies and Department Chair, Department of Asian Studies, Williams College)

3:45-4:00

Continuous Teacher Development in the CFL Study-abroad Programs in Mainland China (Li, Rong, Head Instructor, IUP)

4:00-4:15

"Wenhua jiaoxue de quxiang he jiaoshi de wenhua xintai" (Li, Quan, Professor and Director of the College of CFL , Renmin Daxue)  

Input, Interaction, and Pragmatics

Chair and Discussion Leader:

Kubler Cornelius

4:15-4:30

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Scaffolding in One-on-One Sessions of a Study Abroad Program (Lee, Carolyn, Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University)

4:30-4:45

Communicative Task-based Elementary Spoken Chinese Teaching for Developing Basic Productive Skills in Discourse: A New Mode (Chen, Chen, Lecturer, Renmin University of China)

4:45-5:00

A Study Abroad Program with a Pragmatic Approach (Wu, Weiping M., Director of the Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Comparison Studies

Chair and Discussion Leader:

Vivian Ling

5:00-5:15

An Analysis of Contextual Factors in the Study Abroad Context (Tseng, Miao-fen, Lecturer, Chinese Language Program, The University of Virginia)

5:15-5:30

A Comparison of the Development of Chinese Character Recognition Ability in Chinese Children and CSL Students* (Wu, Sina, Institute for the International Education of Students Beijing Center)

Input Flooding-An Alternative of the PPP Model (Ye, Rong, Associate Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University)

5:30-5:45

Discussion

Kubler Cornelius, Vivian Ling, John Thomson

5:45-6:15

Open discussion and closing remarks:

Professor Richard Brecht, Professor Jianming Lu, Professor Honggang Jin

6:15-8:15

Dinner