Seminar on Teaching Chinese Vocabulary held in Walsh Library on February 24, 2017

“Thank you for the library to provide this exchange opportunity for us,” said one of the participants of the seminar. The two hours flew by very fast indeed when about twenty participants listened to the presentation on teaching Chinese vocabulary by Prof. Siben Chen, visiting scholar of Asian Studies, and faculty of China Southwest Jiaotong University in Walsh Library on February 24, 2017 at 5:30pm. Chinese language teachers Huijuan Wu and Xaio-Qin Li provided the demo of actual teaching cases of the flipped classroom and sentences with multiple verbs. Prof. Dongdong Chen, Department Chair of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, attended the seminar along with current graduate students and alumni of Asian Studies including Eva Cheng-Lee, Zhaoyang Dou, Zheng Jing, Qingqing Lan, Jian Li, Tianxing Li, Lei Liang, Ching Hong Lin, Liping Meng, Yuying Ren, Mei Sha, Wangyu Tang, Mu You, Binbin Zhang, Shangke Zhang, Xiaolei Zhang, Yun Zhu (visiting scholar). The seminar was sponsored by Library Chinese Corner. Some participants suggested Dr. Xue-Ming Bao to have more such events in the future.