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South Central University of Nationalities Performing Troupe

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
263 Iowa Memorial Union (the ballroom)
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

We are very happy to announce a concert of music and dance by a Chinese performing troupe (20 performers) from South Central University of Nationalities in Wuhan (Hubei Province), China, that is visiting our Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa. This concert is free and open to the public.

The concert will showcase the music and dance of different ethnicities in China. Please see the attached program for a description of the pieces that will be performed. For pictures from past performances follow this link: http://www.uwplatt.edu/confucius/gallery/index.html.

If you have any questions, or if you need special accommodations to attend this event, please contact Dr. Dongwang Liu at 335-1305 or email caps@uiowa.edu.

First International Symposium on Chinese Applied Linguistics

Friday & Saturday, April 11-12, 2008
2520D University Capitol Centre (UCC)
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

The First International Symposium on Chinese Applied Linguistics will be held at The University of Iowa (UI) on April 11-12, 2008. The Symposium is being organized by The Confucius Institute at The University of Iowa and its partner institution, East China Normal University in Shanghai.

This Symposium will serve as a platform for researchers on Chinese applied linguistics around the world to generate ideas, cross disciplinary boundaries, and disseminate research about issues and concerns in the learning and teaching of Chinese as a non-primary language (including heritage language learning) across different acquisition stages in different settings. The symposium is also connected to the launching of a new refereed journal entitled Journal of Chinese Applied Linguistics.

Registration fee: $20 USD for students, $40 USD for non-students. To register, complete the registration form and mail with your registration fee to Rebecca Kessler, The Confucius Institute at The University of Iowa, 1120 University Capitol Centre, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-5500, US.

Program
To see a program summary of the two-day symposium, follow this link: Program Details.
There will be eight panels of three papers each. Corresponding abstract and author information are available by clicking on the paper title.

Panel 1: Studies on Character Learning and Strategy Development
1. The L2 Mental Lexicon of Chinese Characters
2. Which Characters do Beginning Learners Typically See?
3. The Effect of Radical Strategy Training in Chinese Character Instruction

Panel 2: Studies on Character Cognition and Construction of On-Line Chinese Character Database
1. Echoism and Cognitive Mechanism
2. English title will be available soon
3. Network Development of Chinese Characters' History Resources

Panel 3: Studies on Task-Based Instruction and CSL Program Development
1.Language Acquisition and Task-Based Instruction in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
2. L2 Chinese Learner Performance under Different Task Condition and Modality
3. Sociological Factors in the Development of CSL Program in UK and Australian Universities

Panel 4: Studies on Learning Strategy, Reading, and Interlanguage Development
1. Research on the General Tendency of Chinese Learning Strategies Used by Foreign Learners in China
2. Reading Principles and Ability Cultivation of Chinese as a Foreign Language
3. A Comparative Study on an Interlanguage and Related Languages

Panel 5: Studies on Reading Acquisition and Pragmatic Development
1. Effect of Explicit Instruction on Learners’ Pragmatic Development
2. A Study of Interlanguage Pragmatic Development of Making Requests by American Learners of Chinese
3. Learning to Read Chinese among Heritage Language Learners: Impacts of Oral Vocabulary and Input Properties

Panel 6: Studies on Heritage Languages and Heritage Learners
1. Toward a Language Socialization Model of Chinese Heritage Language Development
2. Negotiating Language, Literacy and Identity: Chinese Heritage Learners’ Language and Literacy Socialization
3. Pinyin in Literacy Development among Chinese as Heritage Language Learners

Panel 7: Studies on Chinese Discourse Acquisition
1. Word Order and Acquisition Order of Chinese Adverb and Preposition Zai for Foreign Students
2. Intensifiers as Stance-Display Marker: A Corpus-Based Study
3. Effect of Home Background on L2 Chinese Discourse at the Advanced Level

Panel 8: Grammar, Writing Instruction and Discourse Development
1. Learners' Needs Analysis and Teachers' Decision-Making on Grammar Instruction
2. Effect of Different Writing Tasks and Feedback on the Quality of Writing
3. The Acquisition of Wh-Construction in L2 Mandarin

Sponsors
We wish to thank the following sponsors for the generous support received on behalf of The First International Symposium on Chinese Applied Linguistics: UI International Programs, UI Center for Asian & Pacific Studies, UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction, UI Vice President for Research Office, and the John Deere Foundation.