Workshop on Learning and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Registration

Opening Ceremony

Welcoming Speech by Prof. Liu Meichun, Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong

Professor Yuan Boping
Faculty of Asian and Middle East Studies, University of Cambridge

Topic: Directionality of L1 transfer in L2 acquisition: a contrast between L2 English discourse and L2 Chinese discourse

Professor Chan Shui Duen
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Topic: The role of Cantonese in L2 Chinese language teaching

Professor Zhu Rui-ping
College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University

Topic: On Construction of Chinese Teaching Criteria/Syllabus in Mainland China

Professor Chang Hui
School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Topic: Asymmetries of Null Subjects and Null Objects in L1-English and L1-Japanese Learners’ Chinese

Dr. Li Bin
Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong

Topic: Learning Chinese words by young non-Chinese-speaking students in Hong Kong: A survey on attitudes, methods, and strategies

Professor Feng Liping
College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University

Topic: Reviewing Chinese Characters with Spaced Repetition

Dr. Lucy Xia Zhao
School of East Asian Studies, the University of Sheffield

Topic: Verbal Structures in Chinese-English Heritage Bilinguals

Professor Xu Caihua
College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University

Topic: What can we learn from L2 Chinese character acquisition?: From sub-lexical process to lexical quality

Professor Tseng Chin-chin
Department of Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University

Topic: Key Steps of Project-Based L2 Business Chinese Teaching and Learning

Dr. Li Na
College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University

Topic: Vocabulary-teaching approaches in teaching Chinese as a second language

Professor LIU Meichun
Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong

Topic: How to make sense of Chinese? - a non-English biased view

Dr. John Lee, Herman Leung & Keying Li
Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong

Topic: Towards a Dependency Treebank of Learner Chinese

Dinner (for invited speakers and LT faculty only)
Venue: City Chinese Restaurant (8/F)