91B0FBB4-04A9-D5D7-16F0F3976AA697ED
C9A22247-E776-B892-2D807E7555171534
Zhuoyi Wang

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang, former Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Tiao-Guan Huang, Assistant Professor Celia Liu (The College of New Jersey) and Prof. Yea-Fen Chen (Indiana University), recently published a co-authored article, titled “Exploring Cultural Perspectives of Mortality in Class: A Cross-Institutional Collaboration to Teach Cross-Cultural Communication with Films,” in Chinese as a Second Language: The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association USA (57.2 (2022): 91-118).

The article introduces a cross-cultural communication activity conducted across Hamilton College, The College of New Jersey, and Indiana University to explore the cultural perspectives of mortality. The authors designed and conducted asynchronous and synchronous online activities to guide students in discussing some of the perspectives and the underlying assumptions surrounding death in Chinese and in U.S. cultures.

They used two recent films, The Farewell (2019) and Sen Sen (2017), to create discussion questions for intermural online interactions after initial discussion in their respective class sessions. The discussion activities were created with pedagogical strategies based on the following principles: differentiated instruction, zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and comprehensive input. They boosted students’ language skills and increased their learning motivation and cultural awareness.

Related News

Barbara Gold

Gold Publishes Chapter on Catullus 10, Roman Attitudes

“Can a Woman Be a Cinaedus? Interrogating Catullus 10 and Roman Social Norms,” by Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics and Greek Literature Emerita, is included as a chapter in Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome.

Viva Horowitz

Horowitz Publishes Research on Nanomechanical Resonators

Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz co-authored a paper that was recently published in the journal Micromachines.

The $400 million campaign marked the most ambitious fundraising initiative in the College's history.

More About the Campaign's Success

Site Search