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Zhini ZENG received the 2012 Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award
Ms. Zhini ZENG received the 2012 Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award for Teachers of Chinese at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Chinese Language Teachers Association in Philadelphia on November 17, 2012. Zeng is pursuing a PhD in Chinese language pedagogy under Dr. Galal Walker and has been instrumental in the development and delivery of the 5th-Level Chinese courses offered in Qingdao, China, and Columbus, Ohio.Demonstrating national recognition in the field, this is the fifth time that an individual trained by Dr. Walker and his team has earned this award. Previous awardees affiliated with the Chinese language pedagogy program are, by year of award:
2011 Hao-hsiang Liao, PhD, Chinese language pedagogy, currently Visiting Lecturer at Williams College
2010 Jia Yang, PhD candidate Chinese language pedagogy, currently Assistant Professional Specialist at the University of Notre Dame
2007 Yongfang Zhang, PhD, Chinese language pedagogy, currently Assistant Professor at Wofford College
2003 Jin-huei Dai, PhD, participant in SPEAC Training for Teachers of Chinese, currently Associate Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
Galal Walker awarded the 2012 Cheng and Tsui “Walton Lifetime Achievement Award”
Dr. Galal Walker (NEALRC Director) was awarded the 2012 Cheng and Tsui “Walton Lifetime Achievement Award” for his outstanding contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy. He received this award at the annual Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) General Membership Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 17, 2012. Present to convey their sincere congratulations to Dr. Walker and to celebrate CLTA’s 50th anniversary were over 20 graduates of Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, literally spanning decades of instruction at OSU.
Those who appeared in the photo are (front row, left to right) Sue-mei WU, Xizhen QIN, Shu-han WANG, Yang WANG, Junqing JIA, Jia YANG, Galal Walker, Ying LIU, Zhini ZENG, Matthew Christensen, Minru LI, Xuefei HAO; (back row, from left) Zheng-sheng ZHANG, Yanfang TANG, Mien-Hwa CHIANG, Wenze HU, Eric Shepherd, Patrick McAloon, Hao-Hsiang LIAO, Chunsheng YANG, Dana Bourgerie, Baozhang HE and Michael Everson.Korean Pedagogy Book, Vol.13, Pathways to Advanced Skills, published by NEALRC
Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) in U.S. college settings began on a small scale. Despite experiencing huge growth in recent years, KFL pedagogy is still in its beginning stages. KFL research monographs and/or edited volumes are relatively few, as compared to mainstream second/foreign language (L2) field. The NEALRC published this volume as a timely addition to the growing KFL field.This volume contains eleven original studies that explore various pedagogical issues in KFL . This book aims to facilitate the dialogue between the existing instructional L2 acquisition theories and their applicability/practicality when implemented in actual KFL classroom settings. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students, language teachers, curriculum developers, and researchers in the fields of KFL as well as applied linguistics.
Table of Contents (pdf)
Introduction (pdf)
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http://nealrc.osu.edu/content/publicationsCALL FOR PAPERS - The Tenth National Symposium of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese
The Tenth National Symposium of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese will be held on September 21th -24rd, 2012 at Wuhan University, Hubei, P.R. China. Initiated by the country’s largest English and Chinese scholarly body, the symposium will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Wuhan University, supported by Wuhan University-Ohio State University Center for American Culture, and co-sponsored by the National East Asian Languages Resource Center at OSU.
The Tenth National Symposium of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese sincerely invites scholars, teachers and graduate students from China and overseas to join us for the upcoming pageant. Past invited keynote speakers included world-renowned linguists, translation studies researchers, and cultural experts from home and abroad. The present symposium will work hand-in-hand with the newly-created Wuhan University - Ohio State University Center for American Culture to achieve great success.
Papers on the following topics are especially welcome: Comparative Studies of English and Chinese, Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Cultures, Translation Studies, Linguistic Philosophy, Translation of Chinese Classics, Comparative Studies of English and Chinese, and Language Teaching. We would also like to accept papers on general linguistic, translational, and cultural theoretical and practical investigations on either English or Chinese.
Deadline for abstracts: May 30, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of June 2012. Please email abstracts to the following addresses:
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Galal Walker Received the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession
Galal Walker, professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the National East Asian Languages Resource Center at the Ohio State University, has been awarded the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession. The Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) is a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association. Walker was recognized for his innovative contributions to the field of Chinese language teaching and learning, including mentoring generations of students and teachers, authoring sophisticated texts and teaching materials, and developing and directing model study abroad programs. The ADFL executive committee also noted Walker's role as ambassador from the field of less commonly taught languages to public and government audiences. This is the first such award to a teacher from the State of Ohio. Dr. Walker is also the first teacher in the field of Chinese language so honored. The award will be presented next January at the Modern Language Association convention in Boston.吴伟克（Galal Walker），俄亥俄州立大学东亚语言文学系教授及全美东亚语文资源中心主任，最近被授予第十六届外语系协会专业杰出服务奖（Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession）。外语系协会是美国现代语言协会下属的一个重要组织，会员由美国加拿大近一千个大专院校外语系组成，囊括所有在北美教授的外语语 种。该组织自1994年起，每年在美国、加拿大选拔一名外语教师授予专业杰出服务奖。今年第十六届的奖项授予了吴伟克教授。这是俄亥俄州外语教师第一次获 得这个奖项，也是该奖项第一次授予北美中文专业教师。
该专业杰出服务奖是对吴伟克教授四十年来为中国语言教学领域所作出的创新贡献的肯定。吴老师创立了“体演文化教学法”（the Performed Culture Pedagogical Approach），培养了许多优秀的硕士博士，编著了高质量的专业论著与教学材料，建立与发展了全美东亚语文资源中心，是美国教育部资助的全美十五个语 文资源中心之一，是唯一的专注于中文教学资源开发的语言资源中心。吴老师创建了俄州大中文旗舰工程，发展与指导了可作为样板的海外学习项目，如俄州大中文 旗舰工程青岛中心的项目等。外语系协会执委会还注意到吴伟克教授作为非普教语言领域的大使对普通民众及政府听众的影响力。颁奖仪式将于明年一月在波士顿的 现代语言协会年会上举行。
NEALRC Released its Newest Product "Chinese Out of the Box"
The National East Asian Languages Resource Center at the Ohio State University, a Department of Education Title VI center, is delighted to announce the release of its newest product, Chinese Out of the Box. These materials are a complete ready-to-go kit for the beginning Chinese classroom, focusing on teaching five to ten-year olds the foundation skills for the Chinese language.
Children at that age have a natural inclination to develop the accurate pronunciation and listening comprehension skills that are so difficult to develop at a later age. Galal Walker and Huanzhen Zhao have created a complete set of materials that will set American children on the road to fluency in Mandarin Chinese.
Teaching Chinese in elementary schools is no easy task and is compounded by the fact that most Chinese curricula now available to teachers does not include the detailed lesson plans and ready-to-use tools that they need for the classroom. As a result, teachers compensate by using English extensively in their classes. Responding to this challenge, Chinese Out of the Box is a trailblazing, multimedia Chinese language and culture curriculum for elementary school teachers, students and families. Extensively and successfully pilot tested in elementary schools, this kit includes seven instructional items: 1) lesson plans, 2) a family guide, 3) a teacher manual, 4) flashcards, 5) a popular children cartoon series, 6) 80 children songs DVD’s and 7) a DVD which includes: a. Flash dialogues, b. vocabulary PowerPoints, c. SMART board games, and d. assessment tools. These resources combine to provide an easy and appealing introductory course in Chinese that is an essential part of any Chinese language program for elementary school-aged children.
This set of learning materials includes a site license agreement to duplicate. This kit is being offered a special price of $750 per copy/classroom (normally $1,100.00), which is a one-time cost for teaching and learning materials.
A teacher-training workshop is also available train teachers in the optimum use of these materials.
If you would like more information about this product, please visit:Chinese Class Resources (CCR).
If you would like to place an order, please contact our publication manager by e-mail at flpubs@osu.edu or by phone at 1-800-678-6999. (ISBN: 978-0-87415-372-9).
Songs of Thorns and Flowers Vol. 2
We are pleased to announce the release of the second volume of Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry Series (2010- ), a pedagogical approach to modern Korean poetry for college-level studies of Korean language and literature.Volume Two, There Remain Words to Say, features 35 translated poems of the 2010 Ku Sang Poet Laureate Yoo An-Jin. Reading poetry exposes the learner to the art of performativity in Korean language and culture. To make visible the rhetorical and semantic transfer from Korean to English, the original and the translated poems are laid side by side. Not only will learners of Korean benefit from the book but also Korean learners of English can observe how the nuances of poetry and language get translated from Korean to English. In order to give readers a stronger appreciation of the poet’s expressiveness, a section entitled “Replace with the poet’s words in Korean” is provided for most of the poems. Under the section “Discuss,” suggestions are given to stimulate discussion and further exploration. Historical explanations and annotations on language use are provided where appropriate. The included companion CD features video interviews with the poet and audio recitations.Test
Songs of Thorns and Flowers Vol. 1 Now Available
Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry Series, edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Chan E. Park (Foreign Language Publications, 2010 - ), introduces modern Korean poetry to the pedagogical field of Korean language and literature. Published annually, Songs of Thorns and Flowers features works of the Poets Laureate to complement the teaching and acquisition of Korean language and literature in the global academe.
Volume One, In the Tree, includes select poems by Kim Hyung-Young, 2009 recipient of the Ku Sang Literature Award. The series explores the performativity of modern Korean poetic language in reading, interpretation, translation, and recitation.
Songs challenges learners to examine the stylistic and linguistic devices employed to deliver the poet’s message, the combinations of form and content in the realm of poetics, and the lens modern Korean poetry provides into a larger understanding of Korean history and culture. Its bilingual design allows for multi-level and domain use, i.e., for both readers and non-readers of Korean, for both academic and general reading. For this pedagogical objective, the poems are accompanied wherever appropriate by supplementary explications, analyses, and requisite annotations on language use or critical approaches. The volume contains a companion video CD with interviews, poems, and spoken and sung recitation, with English subtitles.
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-87415-367-5Please visit Foreign Language Publications for ordering information.
SPEAC 2011 Announcement
Training Program for Teachers of Chinese SPEAC, The Ohio State UniversityJuly 5 through August 19, 2011Qingdao, China SPEAC (Summer Programs East Asian Concentration)-Teacher Training is an intensive seven-week training program, designed to develop participants' Chinese language teaching skills through lectures, master class observation, and hands-on teaching. Guided by the performed culture approach, this program is closely integrated with the intensive Chinese language program of SPEAC. Participants of the Chinese teacher training (TC) program have abundant opportunities to practice their newly acquired teaching skills with actual learners. Professor Galal Walker of The Ohio State University, co-author of Chinese, Communicating in the Culture, directs and teaches in the program. Applicants should have a high level of competency in both the Mandarin Chinese and English languages. SPEAC is offered by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) in collaboration with the National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC) at The Ohio State University.
Academic credits (Graduate Non-degree) are available to SPEAC-TC participants who is admitted to the OSU for graduate non-degree. Participants in the credit option may receive up to fifteen graduate credits upon successful completion of the of three graduate level courses comprising the teacher-traiing program. These are EALL (East Asian Languages and Literatures) 700 (4 credits), 703 (4 credits), and 704 (7 credits). For further information, please visit http://deall.osu.edu/programs/summerPrgm/summer.cfm, or contact us at speac@osu.edu.
Pathways to Advanced Skills Volume 12 Released
NEALRC, collaborated with Hubei Changjiang Press Group in China, published volume 12 of the Pathways to Advanced Skills, entitled The Pedagogy of Performing Another Culture. This book is a collection of papers which examine theoretical and practical problems encountered in Chinese pedagogy today. Compared with other works in the same field, the greatest attribute of this book lies in its in-depth discussion of the “Performed Culture” pedagogical approached developed by Dr. Galal Walker at The Ohio State University. This book is an essential primer towards understanding and application of the “Performed Culture” approach as well as a foundation for the further advancement of pedagogical approaches that use culture as the focal point.
This book is funded by The U.S. Department of Education and presented in both Chinese and English. If you are interested in it, please contact The Ohio State University Foreign Language Publications (Tel: 614-292-3838, 1-800-678-6999, URL:http://flpubs.osu.edu), and Hubei Changjiang Press Group in China (Tel: 011-86-27-87679581, URL: http://www.cjcb-ty.com/bookInfo.asp?id=1863).
SPEAC 2010 Comes to a Close
SPEAC 2010 successfully came to a close on August 20, 2010, on the OSU campus. The 30 teacher trainees worked very hard throughout this intensive summer course and have shown great improvement in terms of pedagogical methods. This summer program was led by Professor Mari Noda and assisted by Dr. Masauki Itomitsu, and Steve Knicely. Nearly 60 intensive language participants were taught by master teachers and their teaching was observed by the teacher trainees, who also got hands-on experiences in teaching. The conclusion of SPEAC 2010 was marked by the traditional “Interpretation Shootout” where students of Chinese and Japanese compete to translate to and from their respective languages to demonstrate their achievements in mastering the language and understanding its culture. The teacher trainees will go to various schools and institutions to teach Chinese or Japanese after graduating from this intensive summer program.
As SPEAC 2010 comes to a close, the preparations for SPEAC 2011 are just beginning! For information on joining SPEAC 2011, please see the Official SPEAC Website
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SPEAC (Summer Programs East Asian Concentration), is offered by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), The Ohio State University, in collaboration with the OSU National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC) and OSU East Asian Studies Center (EASC).
TCLT6 held at OSU
06-12-2010
The 6th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century* (TCLT6), co-sponsored by Hamilton College and the Ohio State University and held at The Ohio State University June 12-14, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference was “Virtual Classrooms and Everyday Use of Technology”.
There were 171 professionals from 11 countries and areas including the United States, Canada, Australia, Belgium, El Salvador, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, and China.A total of 55 papers were presented during 17 panels. In addition, the conference saw 7 plenary speeches by experts from U.S., Australia, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Conference goers also had the opportunity to get a hands-on experience at up-to-date technologies and applications used in Chinese language teaching. Topics ranged from “Using Google Earth and Google Maps for Task-based Activities and Cultural Knowledge” to “Enhancing the Learning of Chinese Language and Culture with SecondLife.”
In addition to the National East Asian Languages Resource Center, the Conference was also supported by OSU Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, East Asian Studies Center, Foreign Language Center, and Foreign Language Publications. The Ohio Chinese Culture Center and Ohio Contemporary Chinese School offered assistance to serve the Conference.
Conference Proceedings from TCLT6 are available from OSU Foreign Language Publications. For more information please contact FLPubs
For more details on TCLT6 please see TCLT6 section.
SPEAC 2010 Kicks off at OSU
It’s that time again! Language students from all over the US and language teachers from all over the world have ascended on OSU for the 2010 SPEAC Intensive Summer Program.
This year 21 Chinese teachers and 9 Japanese teachers have started SPEAC’s unique seven-week programs designed to develop participants' language teaching skills through lectures, discussion, and observation of classes. Teachers receive a primer in the “Performed Culture” approach and also have many opportunities to practice teach throughout the program.This year’s intensive language program attracted 53 Chinese and Japanese language students from all corners of the US. Although these students have a common interest in Chinese or Japanese language, they come from very different backgrounds. This year’s SPEAC features College Students with a wide variety of majors from Engineering to International Business to Biology. The 9-week intensive language program meets for up to 5 hours a day and trains beginning and intermediate students to achieve higher levels of proficiency.
For more information on SPEAC, please see the Official SPEAC Web site
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SPEAC (Summer Programs East Asian Concentration), is offered by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), The Ohio State University, in collaboration with the OSU National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC) and OSU East Asian Studies Center (EASC).
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