Teaching Chinese as an International Language in the Time of COVID:

      Opportunities, Innovations and Development

The 18th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education

The 2021 Annual International Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS)

5th July- 7th July 2021 (virtual)

Organised by the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS)

Hosted and Co-organised by the Confucius Institute, Bangor University, UK

              Keynote speakers (by alphabetical order)

1. CHEN Jenn-Yeu, Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, on Content-Integrated Language Learning 

2. DA Jun, Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, on CALL & TCFL 

3. LI Li, Associate Professor, University of Exeter, on Creativity in Language Teaching 

4. YUAN Boping, Reader, the University of Cambridge, on SLA & TCFL 

5. YUAN Fangyuan, Professor, US Naval Academy, on Business Chinese

6. ZHONG Yinghua, Professor, Tianjin Normal University, on Curriculum Policy

*For the detailed publisher's guide, please click here.    

AGM 

11 September 2020

Meeting recording via Zoom 

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The 17th International Conference on

Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education

The 2019 Annual Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS)

5 - 7 July 2019

Organised by BCLTS

Hosted by the Confucius Institute, Lancaster University, UK

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Wolfgang Tuebert (University of Birmingham, UK)

Prof. Li Yuming (Beijing Language and Culture University, China)

Prof. Feng Zhiwei (The Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education, China)

Prof. Liu Xun (Beijing Language and Culture University, China)

Prof. Pan Wenguo (East China Normal University, China)

Prof. Hong Lijian (Monash University, Australia)

Prof. Zhao Yang (Beijing University, China)

Dr. Li Mingfang (Regent University, UK)

Call for papers (first call)

Call for papers (second call)

As it has taken some time to set up the online store, we will now extend the early bird payment deadline to 15 May 2019. We would like to clarify that the early bird rate is considered based on the date that payment is made (as long as the payment is made by 15 May 2019 at your local time) as we appreciate different banks may take different days to credit the amount. 

Conference payment and registeration details.

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Conference Programme

大会日程

For details of the conference venue, campus map and local hotels, please check the Conference Travel Guide 

有关会议地点，校园地图，当地酒店和饭店信息，请查看:

Conference Travel Guide 

Campus Map

Lancaster Map

Restaurants 

Other information about the conference. 

Please click here to browe the media covrage of this conference 

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The 16th International Conference on

Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education

The Annual Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society

"Reconsidering the Uniqueness and the Commonalities

of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language"

27- 29 June, 2018

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick

Confucius Institute, Coventry University

Conference Programme

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Ruiping Zhu, Beijing Normal University, China; Abstract

Prof. Helen Shen, University of Iowa, USA; Abstract

Prof. Ema Ushioda, University of Warwick, UK; Abstract

Prof. Yongping Zhu, University of Notre Dame, USA; Abstract

Prof. Henning Klöter, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; Abstract

Both University of Warwick and Coventry University are located in Coventry. So in buying train tickets, your destination is Coventry.

Registration:

• Member Conference registration, please follow this link.
• Non-Member Conference registration, please follow this link.
• Early bird  - 1 May 2018; Final registration - 1 June 2018.

Confernece Venue:

27 June, 2018 Conference site:

University of Warwick (Central Campus)

The Oculus Building

GILBBET HILL ROAD, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

28 June, 2018 Conference site:

George Elliot Building (Confucius Institute)

Coventry University

Priory St, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK

Conference dinner: 7pm 27 June, 2018;

27 June: 10am - 12pm registration Oculus Building ground floor, University of Warwick

27 June: opening ceremony Oculus 0.03 University of Warwick

29 June: closing ceremony,  University of Coventry.

Provisionally, opening ceremony: 12pm 27 June, and Closing: 1:30 - 2pm or could be earlier depending on how many presentations there will be.