讲座题目：作为世界语言的中文在美国的历史发展：概况、挑战与机遇
报 告 人：王淑涵 博士（美国ELE国际顾问公司总裁、美国国家外语中心前副主任）
时 间：2014年5月22日（周四）18:00-19:30
地 点：上外虹口校区5号楼602会议室
主办单位：语言研究院·中国外语战略研究中心
Historical Developments and Current Trends in Chinese as a World Language in the United States: An Overview, Challenges & Opportunities
Shuhan C. Wang, Ph.D.
Since the 1950s, Chinese has been introduced to the United States (US) as a foreign language, but it had remained relatively small in terms of student enrollment or program establishment. From 2004 to 2014, however, the Chinese language field has experienced an unprecedented expansion in the US. What are the factors that have propelled its growth and what is the current status of the field? What are the infrastructural needs in order to support the quality, sustainability, and continued growth of the field? What strategies have been adopted to deal with the challenges associated with such a rapid expansion? What are the lessons learned from the US Chinese case? This talk will highlight some of the progress made in the Chinese language field in the US, analyze the issues associated with its expansion, and explore opportunities that could be capitalized in order to build a system of language learning and teaching.
Shuhan C. Wang, Ph.D. 王周淑涵is president of ELE Consulting International, which provides advisory, technical assistance, teacher professional development, curriculum and material development, and program evaluation to schools, districts, states, institutions of higher learning, organizations, businesses, or governments interested in heritage/world language education.
She is former Deputy Director of the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland. During her tenure there from 2009-2012, she was Co-Principal Investigator of the STARTALK Project, a multiyear federally funded initiative under the National Security Language Initiatives that promotes the study and teaching of critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu in the United States.
Dr. Wang’s research interests include language planning and policy, world language and heritage language education, teacher education and development, curriculum development, and materials design and development. Her work is published in books and peer-reviewed journals nationally and internationally, including in two Chinese textbook series for high school and elementary school students. She is the project director and lead author of Flying with Chinese, a series of textbooks for K-6 learners of Chinese. She is highly sought after as a keynote and conference speaker, workshop provider, and consultant/evaluator of state, national, and international projects.
Dr. Wang holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the National Taiwan University, an MA in Communication from the Ohio State University, and an MA in Bilingualism/Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Delaware. She received her PhD in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.