The Chinese Language Teachers' Association of Greater New York (CLTA-GNY), is planning a conference to celebrate its First Anniversary.  The conference is scheduled for two days, May 3-4, 2003, Saturday and Sunday, in New York City.

The theme of the conference will be "Studying and Teaching Chinese Language and Culture in a Multicultural Environment," and will focus on the following topics:

· Method and Actualization: Teaching Chinese as a second language and application strategies, including teaching pronunciation, grammar, reading, and writing, and classroom methods.
· Cultural Strategies: Meeting the needs of Chinese language learners of different backgrounds, including teaching culture through language, the language of Chinese culture, and cultural contextual designs for teaching Chinese to heritage and non heritage learners.
· Facing Challenges: Text and materials development, planning innovative lessons, and past experiences and future prospects.
· Outside Models: Learning from how other languages are taught.
· Technology: Multimedia, distance learning, computer teaching.
· Practical Application: Chinese in the humanities and practical Chinese, including Business, Legal, and Professional Chinese.

The CLTA-GNY Conference Committee welcomes submissions of one page proposals on subjects relevant to the above themes. Papers can be either in Chinese or English. We will consider proposals for panels as well as individual papers and all proposals will be reviewed anonymously. Individual papers will be grouped into panels by themes. Panels will be 75 minutes long with four presenters. Please note that we will need separate abstracts for each paper on any panel proposal.

Please send your proposals to the below address(es) to be received by us by March 15, 2003. Both paper and electronic forms are acceptable, though we encourage and prefer e-mail submission.

Email submissions should be sent to: ho@un.org

Mailing address is:
Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York
125 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10021

Please include the below "Attendee's Information Form" with your proposal. Notice of acceptance will be sent out by March 31 electronically. Anyone who needs a hard copy of the notice should include a special request with their proposal.

Following the conference, we plan to publish a volume of conference proceedings.  Authors of accepted papers who wish to have their papers considered for inclusion in the proceedings should plan to supply us with a hard copy and a disk copy of their papers. The required format for these papers is:  1” margin on the four sides, 12 point font; English papers should use MS Word with Times New Roman font; Chinese papers should use MS Word with SimSun or PMingLiU font or NJSTAR.

We hope to see you in New York in May!

Please return the following form together with your paper proposal.
E-mail to Dr. Yong Ho: ho@un.org
Or mail to: CLTA-GNY
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10021
 
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