CASLAR-6 update
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Abstract submission deadline extended 【第六届汉语作为第二语言研究国际大会】的投稿截止日期将延长
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The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 08 March 2020 for CASLAR-6 so as to give scholars more time to submit abstracts after the Chinese New Year festival.
The most updated acceptance notification is 20 March 2020.
--CASLAR-6 Organizing Committee
沉痛哀悼！In Memoriam
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In memoriam
Jane Orton (1945-2020)
CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association has suffered a great loss. We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of our greatest leaders, Dr. Jane Orton. She passed away peacefully after a serious illness. It is impossible to express in words how essential and important Jane’s work has been to CASLAR. She has been one of our greatest advocates and best supporters from the very beginning of the foundation of our association. She recognized how important it was to have an organization that brings together Chinese and non-Chinese scholars from all over the world to do research in order to support Chinese language acquisition and teaching.
Professor Orton has had a very distinguished career. She went to China to teach English and English Teaching Methodology in the Foreign Languages Department of Beijing Teachers College (now Capital Normal University) in 1981. In her second year there she took the Chinese Pedagogy and Psychology courses in Chinese compulsory for her students, and thereby cemented relationships with students and teachers still vibrant today. Back in Melbourne she returned to La Trobe University where she taught ESL Methodology and wrote an award-winning PhD thesis, “Educating the Reflective Practitioner in China”, which was completed in 1990.
Jane Orton went to the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne in 1989 as Senior Project Officer for the Asian Languages in Teacher Education Project. From 1992-2008 she coordinated Modern Languages Education in the Faculty. She was also an Executive Member of the Australia-China Business Council, including five years as a Vice President.
In 2008, she produced a report, Chinese Language Education in Australian Schools, which suggested remedial action to improve the quality of teaching and learning outcomes, including the establishment of an Australian Centre for Chinese language teaching. In 2009 she became Director of the Chinese Teacher Training Centre, established by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development in collaboration with China’s Hanban Office. When the Department did not continue funding after 2015, Jane retired. She became an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
In 2016 the Australia China Relations Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney published Building Chinese Language Proficiency in Australia, a comprehensive report on the current state of Chinese language education written by Jane Orton. Among other recent publications in 2019, with co-author Andrew Scrimgeour, she published Teaching Chinese as a Second Language - The Way of the Learner. Professor Orton has supervised more than forty theses on language and culture education and for over two decades she has presented and published widely on communication between Chinese and Australians. She has also designed and published several innovative electronic language teaching resources for Chinese.
CASLAR-6 2020 Call for Papers
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6th International Conference onChinese as a Second Language Research
Short Title: CASLAR-6
August 5-7, 2020
The George Washington University, USA
Call for papers
Location: George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
Conference website: https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/caslar-6-2020
Meeting Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CASLAR website: www.caslarcenter.com
Subject Language(s): Chinese, English
Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission Deadline |
15 February 2020 Extended to 08 March 2020 |
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Acceptance Notification (by email) |
15 March 2020 Extended to 20 March 2020 |
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Early Bird Registration Deadline Registration Deadline |
15 May 2020 30 June 2020 |
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Conference Dates |
5-7 August 2020 |
Conference Formats:
This conference will offer keynote speeches, breakout sessions, panel presentations, poster presentations, workshops, publisher exhibitions, etc. to promote collaboration, provide new knowledge, support peer-to-peer learning, and deepen communications between researchers and Chinese language practitioners at all levels.
Meeting Description:
CASLAR is a biennial conference with the goal to bring together scholars from all over the world whose research focuses on the acquisition, development and use of Chinese as a second language to survey available knowledge in the field, exchange ideas and initiate research projects. The conference is a part of the CASLAR movement that aims to transform a field from a primarily experienced-and practice-based discipline into a discipline based on and supported by research and theory. The first CASLAR conference was held at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou in 2010, the second one was in Taipei, Taiwan in 2012, the third conference was held in Parma, Italy in 2014 , CASLAR-4 was held at East China Normal University, China in 2016, and CASLAR-5 was held at University of Hong Kong in 2018. Another means supporting the CASLAR movement is a bilingual journal Chinese as a Second Language Research 漢語作為第二語言研究 published by De Gruyter Mouton; Berlin/New York. Copies of the journal will be available at the conference. Website of the journal: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/caslar
The CASLAR-6 conference is co-organized by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL), and East Asian National Resource Center (NRC), the George Washington University (GWU). The GWU Foggy Bottom campus is conveniently located in the heart of Washington, D.C., close to the White House, the Kennedy Center and a number of federal and international agencies.
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL) at the George Washington University focuses on the teaching and research of the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages and cultures, both classical and modern. The department offers majors and minors in all three East Asian languages and the MA program in Chinese Language and Culture. A major in EALL will achieve an advanced competence in one of the three languages and a deep knowledge of the literary and cultural tradition of the region represented by the language.
Read more: CASLAR-6 2020 Call for Papers
COME TO CASLAR-6! 欢迎参加第六届CASLAR大会
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CASRI INITIATIVE
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The CASLAR Association has launched a research initiative (CASRI) in order to promote the development of research projects and publications on topics that are expected to significantly support Chinese language learning and teaching. CASRI aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to work together on these projects. Special efforts will be made by CASLAR to bring Chinese and non-Chinese scholars together to work on join projects. We will start CASRI with recommending to set up six research groups headed by scholars who are internationally recognized in their respective field of study. Please look at the suggested list below. The group supervisors will be responsible for accepting project proposals, initiating projects and directing projects within the group. They can invite co-directors, assistants and contributors.
All information about the research groups will be put on the CASLAR website coordinated by Dr. Zhiqi Gong (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Hanh Dinh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). If you would like to join one of the research groups, please email one of the co-directors in the given group and tell about your idea and/or research.
The results of the CASRI research projects will be published in the form of papers and volumes in the CASLAR journal and a CASLAR book series that will be published by Routledge or Springer.
This is how the CASRI project is suggested to work.
There are two ways to initiate projects:
1) The research group supervisors can initiate a project with a short abstract in which they give some details about the focus of the project, its goals and methodology. They post this project description on the CASLAR website and invite participants and ask for further input. Scholars from all over the world can notify the supervisors through email about their interest in participation and give further input about the project. Then the supervisors will form a research group and make suggestions concerning who does what. When the project is finalized it will be posted on the website with a list of participants. Supervisors can initiate more than one project.
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2) Scholars from all over the world can initiate projects. First they should fill in the CASRI Form (please click HERE for the form) that is attached below and will also be available on the CASLAR website, and email it to the selected group’s supervisors. Based on the form details the supervisors will decide in consultation with the initiating scholar(s) if the project is worth pursuing. If they decide to go ahead with the project they will advise the initiator on how to prepare the proposal. When the proposal is accepted it will be posted on the CASLAR website with an invitation for participants to join and give further input to the project. When the project is finalized it will be posted on the website with a list of participants.
If you have any suggestions or questions about these procedures, please contact the group supervisors, Dr. Zhiqi Gong (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or CASLAR Chair Dr. Istvan Kecskes (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
CASRI Research Groups
1) Prosody and tone (Click HERE for updates)
Supervisors: Hana Triskova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hang Zhang (George Washington University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2) Formulaic language, idioms, situation-bound utterances (Call for proposals)
Supervisors: Sergio Conti (Roma Tre) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Zhiqi Gong (SUNY, Albany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3) Acquisition and use of modality
Supervisors: Carlotta Sparvoli (University College Cork, Ireland) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lizhen Peng, (Zhejiang University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
4) Innovative pedagogical approaches
Supervisors: Jane Orton, (University of Melbourne) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
and Jenn-Yeu Chen (National Taiwan Normal University): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
5) Vocabulary, speech acts and discourse
Supervisors: Chen Chun Yin Doris (National Taiwan Normal University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Helen Shen (University of Iowa) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
6) Neural mechanism of cognitive/psychological process in the Chinese language as related to language acquisition
Supervisor: Xiaolu Wang (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)
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For updates, please click on 'Projects 研究项目' on the homepage, under which you will see 'CASRI'.
New Books: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
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Book Description:
Grounded in analysis of Chinese and international educational concepts and classroom techniques currently used to teach Chinese as a Second Language, and a thorough review of recent research in the field, this volume identifies the learning challenges of the language for native English speakers. Orton and Scrimgeour assess the gap in knowledge and skills between learners’ initial and future proficiency levels as L2 Chinese speakers, map their needs as learners towards achieving a high language proficiency, and set out an informed, integrated teaching orientation and practice for the Chinese classroom that responds to those needs. Chapters in the volume address curriculum design, teaching diverse learners and levels, the learning challenges of Chinese oral and literacy skills, grammar and vocabulary, discourse development, cultural understanding, and the affordances of a visit to China. Filled with original and engaging teaching and learning tools and techniques, this book is an essential and rich content resource for primary and secondary teachers, and teacher candidates and educators in Chinese as a Second Language education.
About the Authors:
Jane Orton is an Honorary Fellow and former Director of the Chinese Teacher Training Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Andrew Scrimgeour is a Lecturer in Languages Education and Chinese at the University of South Australia, Australia.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Empowering Learning
Chapter 2 Establishing Oral Skills
Chapter 3 Developing Literacy Skills
Chapter 4 Generating Grammar and Vocabulary
Chapter 5 Adapting Curriculum
Chapter 6 Addressing Diversity
Chapter 7 Integrating Culture
Chapter 8 Widening Experience
Afterword
Index
For more information, click HERE
Book: Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research 《汉语作为第二语言关键问题研究》
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The book co-edited by Istvan Kecskes (SUNY) and Chaofen Sun (Standford) was published by Routledge in 2017.
Title: Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research
Editors: Istvan Kecskes (SUNY) and Chaofen Sun (Stanford)
Table of Contents
Part I. SLA Theories as Related to Chinese
Chapter 1 The Theoretical Landscape of Second Language Acquisition
ZhaoHong Han (Columbia University, USA)
Part II. Chinese Phonology
Chapter 2 De-stress in Mandarin: Clitics, Cliticoids and Phonetic Chunks
Hana Třísková (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Chapter 3 The Effects of Tonal Markedness in Second Language Chinese Tones
Hang Zhang (George Washington University, USA)
Chapter 4 From Phonological Studies to Teaching Mandarin Tone: Some Perspectives on the Revision of the Tonal
Inventory
Carlotta Sparvoli (University College Cork, Ireland)
Read more: Book: Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research 《汉语作为第二语言关键问题研究》
New Book: Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language 新书：《汉语作为第二语言探究》
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Book Title: Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language
Editors: Kecskes, Istvan (Ed.)
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
Series Volume: 31
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54027-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54027-6
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54026-9
About this book:
This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language. It responds to a rapidly growing interest in the Chinese language all over the world, and answers the need for a strong research background for the discipline. Without that, Chinese language learning remains only a unique experience and/or a useful education challenge.
The first section explores crucial issues about the structure and use of Chinese as a Second Language such as word-order, noun-noun compounds, meaning-making in writing, pronunciation and stress and tone. The second section explores the learning of Chinese by seeking answer to questions about difficulties, expectations, beliefs, use of corpus and learning how to express necessity.
Read more: New Book: Explorations into Chinese as a Second Language 新书：《汉语作为第二语言探究》
GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE CASLAR JOURNAL! 《汉语作为第二语言研究》影响力显著提升
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GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE CASLAR JOURNAL!
According to the publisher’s data the number of downloads of articles has increased with 41% (!!) in 2016. The availability of the journal has also risen. Worldcat.org data show that the journal is available in almost 300 libraries in the world. That is more than a 100% increase to 2015. Please continue supporting the journal.
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