PDPJuly+18-22-11

July 18-22, 2011 at Bentley University, Waltham, MA
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 * 世界日报报道加油中文暑期 ||
 * BPS Chinese JIayou FLAP Project offered a week long professional development institute for Chinese language teachers in the district as well as outside the district in July 2011. **


 * The summer institute aimed to strengthen teachers' baseline knowledge of Chinese language as well as its teaching methodologies. BPS collaborated with UMass Boston China Center to invite Prof. FENG Weigang(冯惟钢)from Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言文化大学) to come to Boston to be the lecturer for this course. Since 1994, Prof. Feng designed and organized over two hundred training courses for Chinese language teachers and foreign students studying Chinese language from more than forty countries and areas. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate students courses such as Chinese Language Teaching Methodology, Chinese Phonology, Chinese Character Studies, Reading and Writing in Chinese. Prof. Feng is also one of the most dedicated and renowned scholars on the study of Chinese Putonghua. **

The institute also devoted one hour each day to using technology in the Chinese classroom and guiding teachers to build their own program websites on wikispaces.com. Leading this portion of the institute was the very capable and technologically savvy Ms. Lin Liu, Chinese teacher at Snowden international High School of Boston.

Here are some comments by institute attendees:

“知识性很强” “很有趣味性” “规范化（和）正规化，印象深，收获匪浅” “做为中文老师，自己要有坚实的专业知识，要能知道自己哪些方面不足，如何努力补上” “我是大开眼界而且才知道不是任何会说母语的人都能教中文” “对教中文的兴趣更加强了” “这个学习班非常成功！以后一定还要办！” “时间太短，总觉得意犹未尽” “上了冯老师的课后才知道自己的中文要加强”