September 4, 2010
De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, was elected to the executive board of directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association in the U.S. for a term of three years.
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August 21, 2010
Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu was invited by Minzu University of China, Beijing, to give a talk on technology-based Chinese language teaching in July. The audience consisted of graduate students in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at Minzu University’s College of Education.
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August 2, 2010
De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, was invited to give a plenary speech at the 2010 International Conference on Chinese Education held at Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, in July. The title of his talk was "Classics Reading and the Development of One's Power of Expression."
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April 2, 2010
De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, gave an invited talk on technology and foreign language teaching at a workshop for language teachers organized by SUNY Binghamton on March 19. His topic was "CALL Study and Technology-based Foreign Language Teaching." In his talk, Xu reviewed the historical development of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) study, software, and the future of CALL study with the practice of technology-based foreign language teaching.
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January 20, 2010
Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published an article, "New Technology for Language Instruction and Film Studies-Combination of DVD with PowerPoint Presentation," in
Studies on Teaching Chinese Under Different Circumstances, (ed., the Center of Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University; pub., Press for Researches on Foreign Language Teaching, Beijing, 2010. )
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June 22, 2009
De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, was invited to give a talk (co-authored with Hong Gang Jin) titled "Evaluation and Measurement of Participation and Interactivity in Participatory Web Tools" at ICICE 2009, the 6th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19-21. President of Republic of China Yingjiu Ma delivered the welcome speech at the opening ceremony of the conference, which welcomed more than 500 professionals.
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