Events

LCC CSL cordially invites you to join us for the 2025 Chinese Course Fair and Chinese Speech Competition. 🌱 Date: April 16th (Wednesday) Course fair: 11:30-1:00 pm Speech contest: 6:00-8:00pm Click HERE for more detailed information!

THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY: HOW WE ENGAGE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE How can we teach languages and cultures in a way that encourages and equips learners to think globally and act locally? Echoing DKU’s emphasis on “In China, For the World” and its rooted globalism, the conference highlights the unique geographic and educational position of internationalized higher education. This conference aims to foster dialogue among researchers and practitioners to advance equitable and inclusive language and culture education and to bridge the global and the local. Event Schedule: Check out the full program HERE.

During this session, the speakers from Duke Chinese Program will provide an overview of the program, including the courses they offer and details about the textbooks. They will also discuss their initiatives in community-based learning and introduce their interdisciplinary curriculum development efforts, including CLAC courses, followed by a 15-20 minutes Q&A at the end. This workshop will be in English and is open to DKU students who are interested in learning Chinese.

This Friday from 12 to 1:30 PM, the students in Chinese 412 Chinese Across the Curriculum will present their research projects in Chinese to the DKU community.  ?️Presenters: 马毅森 (Ethan Mills): 代际视角下中国公众对中医态度的探索秋玫瑰 (Christine Herbst): 贸易战以来中美贸易关系的演变与未来展望邱晓祈 (Emily Khoo): 孤独症儿童社交发展之同伴与兄弟姐妹介入法刘智诚 (Charles Liu): 双碳背景下新能源汽车产业现状与挑战

Guest Lecture Details: Following the growing interest in the sociopolitical dimensions of second language teacher emotions (e.g., De Costa et al. 2019; Gkonou & Miller, 2022) and teacher well being (e.g., Mercer, 2020, 2021), I examine developments in these adjacent areas of research. Both lines of research consider the ecologies in which teachers are embedded. To illustrate the vibrant and burgeoning L2 teacher emotion research agenda, I draw on recent examples in the broader applied linguistics and second language teacher education (SLTE) research. In particular, I explore how the SLTE  research landscape can be enriched by a systematic investigation of teacher emotion labor  (Benesch, 2017) and feeling rules (Zembylas, 2007), with a view to advocate for language teaching professionals. This event opens to the DKU community only.