2023 Teacher Training Workshop

Chinese Language Instruction and Technology Integration

About

The URI Chinese Language Flagship Program will offer its 2023 teacher training workshop, which aims at developing or further improving your classroom teaching techniques in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

June 18 – June 24, 2023

Participants will have the opportunity to work with top experts in the field, bringing home with task-based language teaching (TBLT) theories, classroom implementation techniques and technological tools. What is more, you can expand your professional network.

Benefits

  • Gain deeper understanding of the research-informed and theme-based TBLT pedagogical principles and approaches
  • Experiment a wide variety of hands-on classroom procedures and techniques for lesson implementation
  • Integrate sound pedagogical tasks with carefully selected technological tools for effective classroom interaction

This project is supported by a grant to University of Rhode Island (P.I. Dr. Wayne He) from the Institute of International Education (IIE), acting as the administrative agent of the National Security Education Program (NSEP), Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) for The Language Flagship.

The Language Flagship is a national initiative to change the way Americans learn languages through a groundbreaking approach to language education through a network of programs at institutions of higher education across the United States. The Language Flagship graduates students who will take their place among the next generation of global professionals, commanding a superior level of proficiency in one of ten languages critical to U.S. national security and economic competitiveness.

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