Course Offerings

Chinese
In this five-day intensive course we will review important concepts, contexts and core pedagogical competence concerning AP Chinese, discuss approaches and techniques applicable to the teaching of the Chinese language skills, explore ways to integrate culture with language, and evaluate Chinese language assessment instruments. This course will take the format of lectures, discussions, mini-workshops and student presentations.

About the Instructor
Agnes He is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at Stony Brook University and a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and the Shanghai dialect. She teaches courses on intercultural communication, structure of Mandarin Chinese, qualitative research methods, heritage language socialization as well as Chinese language and culture in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Professor He received her B.A. in English from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University), Diploma-in-Education from the National Institute of Education in Singapore, M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Arizona, and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA (1993). Professor He has served as a consultant, advisor, and evaluator for a number of public and private funded projects dedicated to the improvement of global language education at regional, state and national levels. She is the AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics) Representative at the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (2009-2012).

Agnes He Awarded 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship »