Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu will deliver the keynote speech for ICICE4, the 4th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education, Taipei, Taiwan, June 3-5. His speech is titled "Adapting the Past, Facing the Future-An Overview on the Multimedia Instruction of the Chinese Language in the 21st Century." ICICE 2005 will have 150 participants. Hamilton College initiated and sponsored the first conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in 2000.
There are three similar biyearly conferences on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (TCLT). The first was initiated and sponsored by Hamilton College in 2000; Yale University hosted in 2002; the third was held at Columbia University in 2004; and TCLT4 will be hosted by the University of Southern California in 2006.
