Talk: Post Pandemic Language Instruction

The Languages Programme in the Humanities Division at Yale-NUS College is glad to invite you to a webinar by Dr. Cecilia Chang. She specializes in Chinese pedagogy and researches the acquisition of Chinese as a foreign language, focusing on reading in a second language. At Williams, Chang teaches courses on applied linguistics, as well as all levels of Mandarin Chinese. She received the Nelson Bushnell ’20 Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Writing in 2015. Beyond Williams, Chang has served on the board of directors for both regional and national Chinese teachers associations in the United States. From 2011 to 2017, she held different roles on College Board’s AP Chinese Language and Culture Development Committee: member, the college co-chair, and the Chief Reader. She has been a returning faculty member of the Middlebury Chinese MA Program since 2008 and is now the Director of the Chinese School at Middlebury College Language Schools.

LECTURE TOPIC: Faced with the COVID-19 global pandemic, Middlebury Chinese School, a Vermont-based intensive summer language program founded in 1966, transitioned to remote instruction in 2020 and 2021 for the first time since its inception. In this talk, Cecilia Chang, Director of the Middlebury Chinese School, shares the insights gathered from two years of online language instruction, including the impacts of the pandemic on the language school’s curriculum redesign, pedagogical approach, and community building.

Thursday, 17 March, 2022 7:00 – 8:30pm  via Zoom. Please register at bit.ly/lss-chang