September 20 EASC Colloq

The second East Asian Colloquium of the fall semester is Friday, the 20^th of September. Please note the all EASC colloquiums this semester will take place in the Student Building, Room 150.

PRESENTER: Henghua Su (East Asian Languages and Cultures, IU Bloomington)

TOPIC: Let Theory Inform Practice: Connecting the Dots between Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
DATE: Friday, September 20, 2013

TIME: 12:00-1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Student Building, Room 150

 

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” From a pedagogical perspective, linguistics is often perceived to be too theoretical to directly apply to teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Many Chinese instructors are discouraged to learn linguistics under the assumption that theory and practice are disconnected. To address their concerns, this presentation will discuss several prominent issues in Chinese language as examples to illustrate how these generally considered difficulty-to-teach aspects of the language could be explained with fundamental linguistic concepts and rules. My purpose is to raise Chinese pedagogues’ linguistic awareness and helping them teach more effectively.

 

Henghua Su is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She coordinates the Chinese Language Program and advises MA students in Chinese pedagogy with her interdisciplinary background in Chinese Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Teaching. She is currently working on exploring individual difference in learning and constructing a dynamic learning system with statistical modeling.

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