Exploring the Present and Future of Teaching Chinese Characters Online

20 Sep 2022

The Irish Institute for Chinese Studies is delighted to announce a landmark seminar series exploring the handling of teaching Chinese characters in the CFL (Chinese as a foreign language) university classroom. During the current era of remote teaching worldwide, teaching characters becomes more complicated. While interventions to CFL classrooms during Covid-19 were previously made rapidly, distance learning is now becoming more commonplace in the current digital era.

With support from the UCD Global Engagement Seed Fund, Dr Caitríona Osborne (University College Dublin) is leading a project with Dr Danping Wang (University of Auckland) and Dr Qi Zhang (Dublin City University) to examine curriculum and assessment adaptations in six English-speaking countries, specifically in relation to teaching and learning characters. The seminar series will share the findings of this research while also providing a platform for other specialised researchers in the area. 

Ten keynotes will be delivered online weekly, beginning with our hybrid opening session in the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at University College Dublin with Professor George X. Zhang (with complimentary lunch provided).

Registration is free here: https://lnkd.in/d3BHHsZM