Using Authentic Video Clips for Intercultural Learning of Chinese Behavioral Culture from Beginner to Advanced Levels
The intercultural learning of behavioral culture has proven to be most challenging in East Asian language classrooms in the United States. What is behavioral culture? Why is it challenging to learn? How to use authentic video clips to incorporate intercultural learning from the beginner to the advanced levels? How to foster "intercultural speaker" and help them develop intercultural communicative competence at all levels? This presentation aims to answer these questions by providing some concrete examples and activities that K-16 teachers can use in their classroom.
Li Yu, Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Chinese, specializes in Chinese language pedagogy and cultural history. She has three decades of teaching Chinese at the college level in the United States and more than twenty years of experience offering teacher training for novice teachers. She is committed to helping learners achieve proficiency in Chinese and successfully navigate Chinese culture. Beyond the Chinese language classroom, she conducts research on the history of reading and reading pedagogy in late imperial China. She served in various leadership roles at Williams College, chairing the Department of Asian Studies (2015-18) and the Department of Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (2021-24), coordinating the Chinese language program for multiple years. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews. Her most recent publications include an edited volume titled New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Volume IV of the Palgrave Handbook of Chi
By clicking 'Register' you agree to the below terms and conditions:
It is against ACTFL policy to make any recordings of the webinar, whether through Zoom or an external recording device.