2020
CCS Webinar
Faculty Dialogue
Apr
22
CCS Webinar
Faculty Dialogue

In Defense of Chinese Learners: Similarities and Differences between Eastern and Western Approaches to Learning

Speakers:

Baoyan CHENG is Associate Professor of Education. Her research focuses on international student mobility; her publications include “Chinese Students Studying in American High Schools: International Sojourning as a Pathway to Global Citizenship” (Cambridge Journal of Education) and“A Comparative Study of the Liberal Arts Tradition and Confucian Tradition in Education” (Asia-Pacific Education Review).

Dongping ZHENG is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies. She focuses on three lines of research: 1) language development in game-based virtual environments, 2) rethinking second language acquisition and learning from ecological, dialogical and distributed perspectives, and 3) developing new methodology for embodied and non-local events of languaging.

Song JIANG is Associate Professor and Chinese section head in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literature. His research focuses on lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, teaching pedagogy, and technology for teaching and learning. He is the author of The semantics of Chinese classifiers and linguistic relativity (Routledge, 2017).

Co-Sponsors:

UH Department of Educational Foundations

UH Department of Second Language Studies

UH Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures

DATE
April 22, 2020
Time
12:00 pm
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01:30 pm
Location
Moore Hall 109