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Conference on Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Chinese for Non-Chinese Speaking Students

Date: 05/03/2011
Conference on Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Chinese for Non-Chinese Speaking Students 2011
Date: 5/3/2011, Saturday
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: T1 Meng Wah Complex, HKU
This Conference aims to provide a platform for scholars, researchers and teachers from schools and institutions to discuss and share their ideas, perspectives, experiences and research findings of teaching and learning of Chinese for non-native learners in terms of curriculum, teaching materials and pedagogy in school settings. The themes are as follows:
  1. Curriculum design to develop non-Chinese speaking students’ Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing skills
  2. Effective and creative pedagogy
  3. Catering to non-Chinese speaking students’ needs (e.g. learning differentiation, learning experience, culture, affection, conditions of learning in different ethnic minorities etc.)
  4. Teacher development and school development (e.g. how to deal with different challenges; how to gain support from parents and students etc.)
Gan Chun Ran, Qiu Yue, Hua Xiang, Guo Can, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus Wu Wing Cheung, Bethel High School Chung Lai Ming, Buddhist Fat Ho Memorial College
Tsang Pok Chuen, Cheung Wing Shan, Delia Memorial School ( Broadway) Chan Tak Pun, Tam Chun Man, Wan Wai Yee, Kwan Yiu Fai, Fung Ka Mun, Cheung Hin Wing, Delia Memorial School (Matteo Ricci) Lau Sai Yi, Ma Man Yee, Leung Wai Yin, Hong Kong Taoist Association Wun Tsuen Shool
Jessy Tu, King George V School Yuen Ka Wai, Cheung King Choi, Leung Chui Wan, Pak Kau College Hui Miu Hung Ruby, Yung Hon Keung, Representatives from the SSP project
Leung Wing Woon, Salesians of Don Bosco Ng Siu Mui Secondary School Ng Wing Yee, Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School (West Kowloon) Chan Hiu Mei, Ma Hiu Yin, St. Margaret’s Girls’ College
Mr. Albert CY LIU, Senior School Development Officer (School-based Professional Support) and Ms. Betty Leung, Chief School Development Officer of Language Learning Support Division of Education Bureau, presented the certificates of appreciation to the speakers of the 15 sharing sessions.
Prof. S. K. Tse, Centre Director of CACLER and Dr. Ki Wing Wah, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Education presented souvenirs to Mr. Albert CY LIU and Ms. Betty LEUNG.
The Keynote speech was delivered by Dr. Christy Lao, Associate Professor of Education, Founding Director of the Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Her presentation demonstrated how we can incorporate recreational reading and listening in Chinese into the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language, to motivate students to learn Chinese, to assist their Chinese language development, to change students’ perception and attitude towards the learning of Chinese through innovative project activities and cultivate independent, lifelong learners of Chinese.
Learning materials on teaching Chinese for non-Chinese speaking students were exhibited at the conference venue.
A total of 15 parallel sessions were conducted during the conference. It attracted nearly 150 participants coming from over 50 schools and institutions. All of them have an enjoyable and fruitful forum and gain pleasurable insights into the learning of Chinese for non-native learners.