Cross-Institutional Activities

The NTU Huayu BEST Program independently and collaboratively facilitates various academic activities in the field of Chinese language pedagogy. Our capacity to engage with faculties in Chinese language pedagogy through international partnerships allows the exchange of scholarship and inspire future collaborations.

Our IU-NTU Mandarin Learning Center works with the IU Chinese language teachers and professional organizations to promote Chinese language and culture education in communities around the state of Indiana. 

NTU’s faculty in the Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) co-presented professional development workshops with Chinese language faculty at Indiana University. November 2022.

NTU’s Dr. Li-Ping Chang was invited as a symposium discussant and delivered closing remarks at the 2024 Wash U East Asian Language Pedagogy Symposium.

• The IU-NTU Mandarin Learning Center worked with the Chinese Language Teachers Association - Indiana chapter (CLTA-IN) in both 2023 and 2024 to present the annual teacher professional development workshop for K-12 and collegiate Chinese language teachers across the state of Indiana.

• The IU-NTU Mandarin Learning Center also works with the IU Center for the Study of Global Change’s Bridges Program to expose elementary school kids in Bloomington, Indiana, to the Chinese language through an after-school program.

The 20th International Annual Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language took place at the National Taiwan University on December 17-19. The International College was a co-organizer of the conference; faculty and scholars of the Mandarin Chinese language education discipline had attended to share their research and expertise. The Taiwan Huayu BEST Program was also highlighted by many guest speakers during the opening ceremony as a momentous initiative that pushes the field forward. The presentations and workshops featured in the conference were diverse in topics and targeted audience, and involved some of our partnering faculty members through the Taiwan Huayu BEST Program at NTU. For instance, Professor Li-Chia Liu from Harvard University gave the Plenary Speech focused on “Data-informed Language Pedagogy: Adaptive Curriculum and Instruction”.

Several photographs from the opening ceremony of the conference are shown below.