Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Training Day

Calling all teachers of Chinese!

We are delighted to be co-organising a hybrid (online or in-person) training day with Lancaster University Confucius Institute for teachers of Chinese as Foreign Language.

The one-day event on Tuesday 23^rd April 2024 will share best practice in teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Keynote speakers will share their insights on a range of topics such as Virtual Exchange, Continuation Theory and Character Learning Strategies. Teachers of other languages are welcome to attend the day as the shared approaches are applicable to language learning in general.

Registration is now open and free to attend. You can choose to attend in person at Lancaster University or online. Please follow the registration link for the two different options and register by 19th April 2024.

Further details about the day including the schedule and speaker biographies are available here. Three of the five speakers, Kan Qian, Mirjam Hauck and Yang Mei, will attend in-person.

• To register to attend in person at Lancaster University including lunch and refreshments, please register here .
• To register to attend the event online, please register here.

We look forward to seeing you there!

*After you take part in the training day, we would appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to complete this survey, which will help shape future events like this*.

Update 30/04/24: Recordings and materials from the day

Thanks to all the presenters for sharing their slides

Session 1 – What is virtual exchange

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Slides from the presentation are available here and you can also access the VE example cases shared during the presentation.

Session 2 -  Running VE in a Chinese language programme at a University in the UK

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Slides from the presentation are available here. 

Session 3 - Continuation Theory and Its Application in Chinese Language Teaching

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Slides from the presentation are available here. 

Session 4 - Exploring Chinese characters - Learning and Teaching Strategies

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Slides from the presentation are available here.