Dr. Amber Navarre is the 2018 winner of ACTFL Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology (post-secondary). Her book, Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language, published by Routledge Chinese Language Pedagogy series, is now available on Amazon. This book provides new and experienced teachers of Chinese with a timely
Desmos is a free advanced web application and a mobile application written in JavaScript originally for math teachers. It was founded by Eli Luberoff – a math and physics double major from Yale University, and was launched as a startup at TechCrunch’s Disrupt New York conference in 2011. I have created a few digital activates
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Organizers of the past Chinese Innovation Forums and the 5th CIF in 2019 will be presenting at ACTFL! Please see Event Title: 00913 – Chinese Innovation Forum: Building an Affordance Network for K-16 Educators Presenters: Kevin Chang, Chinese American International School Jinhui Enya Dai, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Lotus Perry, University of Puget Sound Liping
Registration will be open in June 2019 The 5th Chinese Innovation Forum October 25-26, 2019 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington FORUM THEME: ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP Forum theme contributes: Cindy Chiang, International School of the Peninsula, and Jinhuei Enya Dai, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Anna Vassilieva, Director & Professor, Graduate Initiative
I have read more reports and heard from more colleagues these two years that the Chinese program enrollment numbers have either plateaued or decreased. At my university, enrollment has remained in general strong, however, last year, we did see one of our smallest incoming 1st-year language classes. It might have been just a blip and the
[This is an invited post from Thomas N. Rooks, 榮天漠] Introduction Daily life in mainland China has been transformed by the rise of mobile apps. For instance, mobile payment apps have turned China into a nearly cashless society, and you can now travel without buying a metro card or queuing up at a ticket counter. With
Though interest in studying Chinese as a second language has increased dramatically in the past 20 years and enrollments in Chinese have steadily grown since the mid-1990s, it is clear that the rapid growth of the 2000s is waning. A recent study by the MLA is showing that university level study of Chinese has only
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