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COME TO CASLAR-6! 欢迎参加第六届CASLAR大会

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CASLAR-6 conference will be held on August 5-7, 2020 at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Please plan accordingly.

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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

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CASRI INITIATIVE UPDATE

Details: Category: CASRI; Published: 18 September 2018; Created: 18 September 2018; Last Updated: 16 June 2019; Hits: 550

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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.

2) Scholars from all over the world can initiate projects. First they should fill in the CASRI 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 me (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Thank you,

Istvan Kecskes

CASRI Form

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CASRI Innovative Pedagogy Approaches Update: Research Project #1

Details: Category: CASRI; Published: 24 February 2019; Created: 24 February 2019; Last Updated: 16 June 2019; Hits: 324

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CASRI: Innovative Pedagogy Approaches

Supervisors: Jane Orton, (University of Melbourne) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jenn-Yeu Chen (National Taiwan Normal University): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research Project #1 –Chinese Language Development in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Current endorsed research topics:

1.What language content and development comes naturally from working in a particular curriculum area, e.g. general science, at a particular age/grade level:

The language of the content (Coyle’s ‘language for learning’)
The in-room language needed for the teaching and assessing the learning (Coyle’s ‘language of learning’)
The linguistic development affordances – the language forms and words/phrases available for concentrated work in order to develop linguistic competence in all skills more generally, beyond the specific topic
What this concentrated language work would consist of.

2.How can language growth be taught, monitored and built upon effectively and efficiently in a CLIL program:

What should the relationship be between CLIL content areas and developing knowledge of Chinese language?
How should language be taught and assessed in a CLIL program?
How much new language can CLIL students at (X) Level handle well over time?
What constitutes progress in language development over time in a CLIL program?
Where does understanding of Chinese language as a system (Language Awareness) fit in a CLIL program?
How should Language Awareness be taught and assessed in a CLIL program?

3.How can CLIL learners be provided with accelerated and generative literacy development that enables active engagement with printed material in CLIL from the earliest opportunity?

What is the nature of Orthographic Awareness (conceptual understanding of the Chinese writing system) that learners need to develop at different levels of schooling?
What types of Orthographic Knowledge (knowledge of specific features within the character system, e.g. components, sides etc)?
What types of classroom activity are most beneficial to developing Orthographic Awareness and Orthographic Knowledge?
How can literacy development be integrated into ongoing reading and writing activity within CLIL units of work?

4.How can dedicated language teaching and learning be effectively scoped and sequenced in a CLIL context:

Should there be a dedicated language and literacy strand to support CLIL?
If so, should such a strand be introductory or run concurrently throughout the CLIL curriculum?
What should the key components of a dedicated language awareness strand be?
How might a CLIL Language Awareness strand (curriculum) vary from a mainstream (CSL) curriculum? Are there distinctive components of a CLIL Language Awareness curriculum that distinguishes it from CSL Curriculum?

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CASRI recently launched!

Details: Category: News; Published: 02 September 2018; Created: 02 September 2018; Last Updated: 16 June 2019; Hits: 808

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The CASLAR Association is planning to launch 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. For details, please go to the drop down menu under ‘Projects 研究项目’ (http://www.caslarcenter.com/projects/casri ).

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PLAN FOR THE NEXT CASLAR CONFERENCE (CASLAR-6, 2020, Washington DC) 第六届CASLAR大会将于2020年在乔治华盛顿大学召开

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PLAN FOR THE NEXT CASLAR CONFERENCE:

CASLAR-6 WILL BE HELD ON AUGUST 5-7 (W-F), 2020 AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC, USA.

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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.

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New 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) is to be published by Routledge in mid-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)

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GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE CASLAR JOURNAL! 《汉语作为第二语言研究》影响力显著提升

Details: Category: CASLAR Journal学会期刊; Published: 01 April 2017; Created: 01 April 2017; Last Updated: 16 July 2017; Hits: 3742

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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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