Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, published an article titled “Task Complexity and its Effects on Interaction & Production: An Experimental Study of Task-based Instruction” in the May issue of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (JCLTA). The article presents the results of her study about “the effect of task complexity on language and interaction in a Chinese as a foreign language context.”
Jin gave the keynote address at the teacher development symposium on May 18-20, during the Chinese as Second Language (CSL) Annual Conference sponsored by CSL Research Institute of Singapore. She also presented a teacher development workshop, “Teaching Chinese as a second language: methodological principles and best practices,” May 22-24. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for Mandarin Training and Graduate Institute of CSL at Taiwan Normal Institute.
Jin gave the keynote address at the teacher development symposium on May 18-20, during the Chinese as Second Language (CSL) Annual Conference sponsored by CSL Research Institute of Singapore. She also presented a teacher development workshop, “Teaching Chinese as a second language: methodological principles and best practices,” May 22-24. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for Mandarin Training and Graduate Institute of CSL at Taiwan Normal Institute.
