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Conference on the Learning and Teaching of Chinese to Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergartens and Primary Schools

Date: 28/03/2015
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The Conference on the Learning and Teaching of Chinese to Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergartens and Primary Schools was held on 28 March 2015 at Graduate House, HKU. It was organized by two USP (University-School Support Programme) project teams housed under CACLER: namely ‘Supporting Kindergartens in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Children (2012-15)’, led by Dr. Joseph Wai-ip Lam; and ‘Accommodating Diversity: Supporting the Learning and Teaching of Chinese Language for non-Chinese Speaking Students in Primary Schools (2014-17)’, led by Dr. Wai-ming Cheung.

In the hope of fostering the exchange of research-based and classroom-based knowledge, we offer this platform in which intellectuals and practitioners locally and regionally 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, with special emphasis on the transition issue from pre-primary to primary level. The Conference themes were addressed through 28 various plenary and featured presentations, papers, poster demonstrations and forum.

Two keynote speeches were presented during the Conference. Prof. SK Tse delivered the speech entitled ‘The Application of Integrated and Effective Approach in Recognizing Chinese Characters in L2 Teaching and Learning: Practical Experience in Asia’, and Dr. JWI Lam and Dr. WM Cheung shared the experience on developing story books to the needs of young language learners in their speech “From Basic Characters to Differentiated Story Books” .

The Conference was a great success, with around 290 delegates from 75 local schools, including 19 of our partnership schools, who have stepped out to generously share their school-based experiences and knowledge generated with fellow researchers and teaching professionals. Their experiences and perspectives are, without doubt, invaluable assets to those in our field.

 

  • Overview of three Keynote speeches

https://www.hkuuspp.com/2015keynote.html

  • Overview of sharing sessions from collaborating schools

https://www.hkuuspp.com/2015schoolsharing.html

  • Overview of poster sessions – showcase of collaborating outcomes by network schools

https://www.hkuuspp.com/2015posterpresentation.html

 

 

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